Japanese fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru
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The Japanese fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru was a tuna boat whose crew’s exposure to radioactive fallout from U.S. nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll in 1954 became a major international incident and symbol of anti-nuclear sentiment in Japan.
All labels observed (1)
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| Japanese fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12188566 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Japanese fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru Context triple: [Castle Bravo, affected, Japanese fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru]
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Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum
The Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum is the fictional freighter in Yann Martel’s novel "Life of Pi" that sinks in the Pacific Ocean, leaving the protagonist stranded at sea.
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B.
Tom Paine Maru
Tom Paine Maru is a libertarian science fiction novel by L. Neil Smith that explores themes of individual freedom, anti-authoritarianism, and revolutionary politics in a spacefaring setting.
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C.
Ogasawara Maru ferry
The Ogasawara Maru ferry is a long-distance passenger and cargo ship that provides the primary sea link between Tokyo and the remote Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands.
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Heian Maru
Heian Maru is a famous World War II Japanese transport shipwreck in Chuuk Lagoon, now a popular site for recreational wreck diving.
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Shinkoku Maru
Shinkoku Maru is a famous World War II-era Japanese oil tanker wreck that now serves as a popular scuba diving site in Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Japanese fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru Target entity description: The Japanese fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru was a tuna boat whose crew’s exposure to radioactive fallout from U.S. nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll in 1954 became a major international incident and symbol of anti-nuclear sentiment in Japan.
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A.
Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum
The Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum is the fictional freighter in Yann Martel’s novel "Life of Pi" that sinks in the Pacific Ocean, leaving the protagonist stranded at sea.
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B.
Tom Paine Maru
Tom Paine Maru is a libertarian science fiction novel by L. Neil Smith that explores themes of individual freedom, anti-authoritarianism, and revolutionary politics in a spacefaring setting.
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C.
Ogasawara Maru ferry
The Ogasawara Maru ferry is a long-distance passenger and cargo ship that provides the primary sea link between Tokyo and the remote Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands.
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D.
Heian Maru
Heian Maru is a famous World War II Japanese transport shipwreck in Chuuk Lagoon, now a popular site for recreational wreck diving.
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E.
Shinkoku Maru
Shinkoku Maru is a famous World War II-era Japanese oil tanker wreck that now serves as a popular scuba diving site in Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Castle Bravo