Madame Ban
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Madame Ban is the honorific title commonly used for Yoo Soon-taek, the wife of former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and a prominent South Korean public figure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madame Ban canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2288203 — 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: Madame Ban Context triple: [Yoo Soon-taek, honorificTitle, Madame Ban]
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A.
Blanchette
Blanchette is a French feminine given name and diminutive form of Blanche, traditionally meaning "white" or "fair."
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B.
Barbara
Barbara is a station on Paris Métro Line 4 serving the southern suburbs of the French capital.
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C.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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D.
Madame Leota
Madame Leota is a disembodied, ghostly medium whose talking head in a crystal ball delivers eerie incantations in Disney’s Haunted Mansion attraction.
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E.
Mabel Grex
Mabel Grex is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Duke's Children," known for her beauty, charm, and complex romantic entanglements within high society.
- 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: Madame Ban Target entity description: Madame Ban is the honorific title commonly used for Yoo Soon-taek, the wife of former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and a prominent South Korean public figure.
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A.
Blanchette
Blanchette is a French feminine given name and diminutive form of Blanche, traditionally meaning "white" or "fair."
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B.
Barbara
Barbara is a station on Paris Métro Line 4 serving the southern suburbs of the French capital.
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C.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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D.
Madame Leota
Madame Leota is a disembodied, ghostly medium whose talking head in a crystal ball delivers eerie incantations in Disney’s Haunted Mansion attraction.
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E.
Mabel Grex
Mabel Grex is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Duke's Children," known for her beauty, charm, and complex romantic entanglements within high society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
honorific title
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human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | United Nations ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
South Korea
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South Korea ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity |
diplomatic social engagements
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public service ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Madame Ban self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
| nameInHangul | 유순택 ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Korean ⓘ |
| notableAs |
South Korean public figure
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spouse of Ban Ki-moon ⓘ |
| notableFor | role as spouse of UN Secretary-General ⓘ |
| otherName |
Ban Ki-moon
ⓘ
surface form:
Madame Ban Ki-moon
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| placeOfBirth | South Korea ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Secretary-General of the United Nations
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spouse of the Secretary-General of the United Nations ⓘ |
| refersTo | Yoo Soon-taek ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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Seoul ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Ban Ki-moon ⓘ |
| usedFor | wife of Ban Ki-moon ⓘ |
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: Madame Ban Description of subject: Madame Ban is the honorific title commonly used for Yoo Soon-taek, the wife of former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and a prominent South Korean public figure.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Yoo Soon-taek