Khieu Samphan
E165513
Khieu Samphan is a Cambodian communist politician who served as head of state of Democratic Kampuchea under the Khmer Rouge and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in the regime.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Khieu Samphan canonical | 7 |
| Khieu | 1 |
| Khim Samphan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1385756 — 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: Khieu Samphan Context triple: [Cambodian Civil War, keyFigure, Khieu Samphan]
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A.
Nuon Chea
Nuon Chea was a senior Khmer Rouge leader and chief ideologue who served as Pol Pot’s deputy and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in Cambodia’s genocidal regime.
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B.
Lon Nol
Lon Nol was a Cambodian military general and politician who led the coup that overthrew Prince Norodom Sihanouk and headed the U.S.-backed Khmer Republic in the early 1970s.
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C.
Norodom Sihanouk
Norodom Sihanouk was the long-reigning Cambodian monarch and political leader whose shifting alliances and influence profoundly shaped Cambodia’s modern history, including its turbulent conflicts and regime changes.
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D.
Pol Pot
Pol Pot was the leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime, responsible for the genocidal policies that led to the deaths of an estimated 1.5 to 2 million people in the late 1970s.
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E.
Kao Kim Hourn
Kao Kim Hourn is a Cambodian diplomat and academic who serves as the Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- 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: Khieu Samphan Target entity description: Khieu Samphan is a Cambodian communist politician who served as head of state of Democratic Kampuchea under the Khmer Rouge and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in the regime.
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A.
Nuon Chea
Nuon Chea was a senior Khmer Rouge leader and chief ideologue who served as Pol Pot’s deputy and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in Cambodia’s genocidal regime.
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B.
Lon Nol
Lon Nol was a Cambodian military general and politician who led the coup that overthrew Prince Norodom Sihanouk and headed the U.S.-backed Khmer Republic in the early 1970s.
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C.
Norodom Sihanouk
Norodom Sihanouk was the long-reigning Cambodian monarch and political leader whose shifting alliances and influence profoundly shaped Cambodia’s modern history, including its turbulent conflicts and regime changes.
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D.
Pol Pot
Pol Pot was the leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime, responsible for the genocidal policies that led to the deaths of an estimated 1.5 to 2 million people in the late 1970s.
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E.
Kao Kim Hourn
Kao Kim Hourn is a Cambodian diplomat and academic who serves as the Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cambodian politician
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Khmer Rouge leader ⓘ communist politician ⓘ convicted war criminal ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
Cambodian genocide
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Khmer Rouge atrocities ⓘ forced collectivization in Cambodia ⓘ mass deportations in Democratic Kampuchea ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
crimes against humanity
ⓘ
genocide ⓘ war crimes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Cambodia ⓘ |
| countryOfCrime | Cambodia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Khmer people ⓘ |
| familyName |
Khieu Samphan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Khieu
|
| givenName | Samphan ⓘ |
| government | Democratic Kampuchea ⓘ |
| governmentTypeServed |
one-party communist state
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totalitarian regime ⓘ |
| hasLegalOutcome | final conviction on appeal ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
party official
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politician ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Cambodian Civil War
ⓘ
Khmer Rouge ⓘ
surface form:
Khmer Rouge era
|
| ideology |
Maoism
ⓘ
agrarian socialism ⓘ communism ⓘ |
| jurisdictionOfConviction | Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Khmer ⓘ |
| legalStatus | life imprisonment ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Communist Party of Kampuchea
ⓘ
Khmer Rouge ⓘ |
| name | Khieu Samphan self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in Democratic Kampuchea government
ⓘ
trial at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia ⓘ |
| office | President of the State Presidium of Democratic Kampuchea ⓘ |
| partOf |
Khmer Rouge
ⓘ
surface form:
leadership of Democratic Kampuchea
|
| placeOfActivity | Phnom Penh ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | far-left ⓘ |
| politicalMovement |
Cambodian communism
ⓘ
Khmer Rouge ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Head of State of Democratic Kampuchea ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Cambodia ⓘ |
| roleIn |
Khmer Rouge
ⓘ
surface form:
Khmer Rouge regime
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| subjectOf | Khmer Rouge tribunal proceedings ⓘ |
| workedUnder | Pol Pot ⓘ |
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: Khieu Samphan Description of subject: Khieu Samphan is a Cambodian communist politician who served as head of state of Democratic Kampuchea under the Khmer Rouge and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in the regime.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Khim Samphan
this entity surface form:
Khieu