乙三
E941924
乙三 is the given name of Yamada Otsu, a Japanese individual most notably recognized as a military commander during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 乙三 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11709224 — 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: 乙三 Context triple: [山田乙三, givenName, 乙三]
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A.
Deshan Bensheng
Deshan Bensheng was a prominent 9th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) master of the Tang dynasty, known for his strict teaching style and influential role in the development of the Linji school.
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B.
Bǎojī
Bǎojī is the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the name of Baoji, a prefecture-level city in Shaanxi Province, China.
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C.
Yuanxin
Yuanxin is the given name of Mao Yuanxin, a Chinese political figure known for being the nephew of Mao Zedong and a prominent youth leader during the Cultural Revolution.
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D.
Weihan
Weihan is a Chinese given name most notably borne by Li Weihan, a prominent Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician.
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E.
Xiaobo
Xiaobo is the given name of Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
- 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: 乙三 Target entity description: 乙三 is the given name of Yamada Otsu, a Japanese individual most notably recognized as a military commander during World War II.
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A.
Deshan Bensheng
Deshan Bensheng was a prominent 9th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) master of the Tang dynasty, known for his strict teaching style and influential role in the development of the Linji school.
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B.
Bǎojī
Bǎojī is the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the name of Baoji, a prefecture-level city in Shaanxi Province, China.
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C.
Yuanxin
Yuanxin is the given name of Mao Yuanxin, a Chinese political figure known for being the nephew of Mao Zedong and a prominent youth leader during the Cultural Revolution.
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D.
Weihan
Weihan is a Chinese given name most notably borne by Li Weihan, a prominent Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician.
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E.
Xiaobo
Xiaobo is the given name of Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Japanese Army general
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Japanese given name ⓘ Japanese military commander ⓘ given name ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Japan
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surface form:
Empire of Japan
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| conflict |
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
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surface form:
Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| familyName | 山田 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | 乙三 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenNameOf | 山田乙三 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenderUsage | male given name ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Japanese ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Japanese ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| nameInKana | やまだ おつぞう ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Commanding Japanese forces in the Battle of Okinawa
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Service as an Imperial Japanese Army general during World War II ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Commander of the Japanese 12th Division
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Commander of the Japanese First Area Army ⓘ Commander of the Japanese Seventeenth Area Army ⓘ Commander of the Japanese Thirty-Second Army ⓘ |
| rank | General ⓘ |
| script | Kanji ⓘ |
| usedBy | Japanese people ⓘ |
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: 乙三 Description of subject: 乙三 is the given name of Yamada Otsu, a Japanese individual most notably recognized as a military commander during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.