Cevdet Sunay
E328610
Cevdet Sunay was a Turkish army general and statesman who served as the fifth President of Turkey from 1966 to 1973.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cevdet Sunay canonical | 3 |
| Atıfet Sunay | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3063391 — 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: Cevdet Sunay Context triple: [Çankaya Mansion, usedBy, Cevdet Sunay]
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A.
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca was a prominent Turkish poet renowned for his prolific output and innovative, often nationalistic and existential verse that made him a central figure in 20th-century Turkish literature.
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B.
Reşat Nuri Güntekin
Reşat Nuri Güntekin was a prominent early 20th-century Turkish novelist and playwright best known for works like "Çalıkuşu," which played a key role in shaping modern Turkish literature.
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C.
Orhan Veli Kanık
Orhan Veli Kanık was a pioneering 20th-century Turkish poet best known for leading the Garip movement, which revolutionized Turkish poetry with its colloquial language and everyday themes.
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D.
Salih Zeki
Salih Zeki was an Ottoman mathematician, physicist, and historian of science known for his influential works on the history of mathematics and science in the Islamic world.
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E.
Tevfik Fikret
Tevfik Fikret was a pioneering late Ottoman-era Turkish poet and intellectual known for his modernist style, social criticism, and major influence on the evolution of Turkish literature.
- 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: Cevdet Sunay Target entity description: Cevdet Sunay was a Turkish army general and statesman who served as the fifth President of Turkey from 1966 to 1973.
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A.
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca was a prominent Turkish poet renowned for his prolific output and innovative, often nationalistic and existential verse that made him a central figure in 20th-century Turkish literature.
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B.
Reşat Nuri Güntekin
Reşat Nuri Güntekin was a prominent early 20th-century Turkish novelist and playwright best known for works like "Çalıkuşu," which played a key role in shaping modern Turkish literature.
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C.
Orhan Veli Kanık
Orhan Veli Kanık was a pioneering 20th-century Turkish poet best known for leading the Garip movement, which revolutionized Turkish poetry with its colloquial language and everyday themes.
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D.
Salih Zeki
Salih Zeki was an Ottoman mathematician, physicist, and historian of science known for his influential works on the history of mathematics and science in the Islamic world.
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E.
Tevfik Fikret
Tevfik Fikret was a pioneering late Ottoman-era Turkish poet and intellectual known for his modernist style, social criticism, and major influence on the evolution of Turkish literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
President of Turkey
ⓘ
Turkish politician ⓘ army general ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appointedBy |
Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
ⓘ
surface form:
Grand National Assembly of Turkey (as President)
|
| burialPlace |
Cebeci Asri Cemetery
ⓘ
surface form:
Turkish State Cemetery
|
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Turkey ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1899-02-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1982-05-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Erzincan Military High School
ⓘ
Ottoman Military College ⓘ
surface form:
Istanbul War Academy
|
| endTime | 1973-03-28 (presidency) ⓘ |
| familyName | Sunay ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Cevdet ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | General ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Armed Forces of Turkey
ⓘ
surface form:
Turkish Armed Forces
|
| militaryBranch |
Turkish Land Forces
ⓘ
surface form:
Turkish Army
|
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Turkish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in Turkish military and politics during the 1960s
ⓘ
serving as the fifth President of Turkey ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 5th President of Turkey ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Turkish War of Independence
ⓘ
World War I ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Trabzon Province
ⓘ
surface form:
Trabzon Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
|
| placeOfDeath |
Istanbul
ⓘ
surface form:
Istanbul, Turkey
|
| positionHeld |
Chief of the General Staff
ⓘ
surface form:
Chief of the General Staff of Turkey
Commander of the Turkish Army ⓘ President of Turkey ⓘ |
| predecessor | Cemal Gürsel ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence |
Çankaya Mansion
ⓘ
surface form:
Çankaya Presidential Mansion (during presidency)
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| serviceEntryYear | 1917 ⓘ |
| serviceRetirementYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| spouse |
Cevdet Sunay
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Atıfet Sunay
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| startTime | 1966-03-28 (presidency) ⓘ |
| successor | Fahri Korutürk ⓘ |
| workLocation | Ankara ⓘ |
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: Cevdet Sunay Description of subject: Cevdet Sunay was a Turkish army general and statesman who served as the fifth President of Turkey from 1966 to 1973.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Atıfet Sunay