Sugamo Prison
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Sugamo Prison was a Tokyo detention facility used by the Allied occupation forces after World War II to hold and execute Japanese war criminals, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sugamo Prison canonical | 12 |
| Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan | 3 |
| 巣鴨プリズン | 2 |
| Sugamo Detention House | 1 |
| 巣鴨拘置所 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T749110 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sugamo Prison Context triple: [Hideki Tojo, placeOfDeath, Sugamo Prison]
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A.
Pollsmoor Prison
Pollsmoor Prison is a high-security South African correctional facility in Cape Town, historically notable for holding prominent anti-apartheid activists including Nelson Mandela.
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B.
Vladimir Central Prison
Vladimir Central Prison is a notorious high-security penitentiary in Vladimir, Russia, historically used to hold prominent political prisoners and other high-profile inmates.
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C.
Bilibid Prison
Bilibid Prison is a notorious high-security penitentiary complex in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, Philippines, historically used to incarcerate prominent prisoners including war criminals.
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D.
Maitama
Maitama is an upscale, predominantly residential and diplomatic district in Abuja, Nigeria, known for housing embassies, government officials, and affluent residents.
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E.
Mandlay prison
Mandlay prison was a colonial-era jail in Mandalay, Burma, notorious for holding Indian freedom fighters such as Bal Gangadhar Tilak during British rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sugamo Prison Target entity description: Sugamo Prison was a Tokyo detention facility used by the Allied occupation forces after World War II to hold and execute Japanese war criminals, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.
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A.
Pollsmoor Prison
Pollsmoor Prison is a high-security South African correctional facility in Cape Town, historically notable for holding prominent anti-apartheid activists including Nelson Mandela.
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B.
Vladimir Central Prison
Vladimir Central Prison is a notorious high-security penitentiary in Vladimir, Russia, historically used to hold prominent political prisoners and other high-profile inmates.
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C.
Bilibid Prison
Bilibid Prison is a notorious high-security penitentiary complex in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, Philippines, historically used to incarcerate prominent prisoners including war criminals.
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D.
Maitama
Maitama is an upscale, predominantly residential and diplomatic district in Abuja, Nigeria, known for housing embassies, government officials, and affluent residents.
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E.
Mandlay prison
Mandlay prison was a colonial-era jail in Mandalay, Burma, notorious for holding Indian freedom fighters such as Bal Gangadhar Tilak during British rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Sugamo Prison Description of subject: Sugamo Prison was a Tokyo detention facility used by the Allied occupation forces after World War II to hold and execute Japanese war criminals, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan
this entity surface form:
Sugamo Detention House
this entity surface form:
Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan
this entity surface form:
Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan