Yi Seong-gye
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Yi Seong-gye was a Korean military leader and statesman who overthrew the Goryeo dynasty and became the founding king of the Joseon dynasty, ruling as King Taejo.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yi Seong-gye canonical | 14 |
| Taejo of Joseon | 13 |
| King Taejo of Joseon | 3 |
| Yi Sŏng-gye | 1 |
| 조선 태조 이성계 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5264752 — 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: Yi Seong-gye Context triple: [Joseon, foundedBy, Yi Seong-gye]
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King Taejong of Joseon
King Taejong of Joseon was the third monarch of Korea’s Joseon dynasty, known for consolidating royal authority, implementing major administrative and military reforms, and laying foundations for a centralized Confucian state.
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King Taejong Muyeol
King Taejong Muyeol was a 7th-century monarch of the Korean kingdom of Silla who played a key role in the unification of the Korean Peninsula.
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Emperor Gongmin
Emperor Gongmin was a ruler of the Goryeo dynasty in Korea known for his efforts to reform government corruption and reduce Mongol influence in the 14th century.
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Taejo of Goryeo
Taejo of Goryeo was the first king of the Goryeo dynasty in Korea, who unified the Later Three Kingdoms and established the foundation of a new Korean state in the 10th century.
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King Seongjong
King Seongjong was a Joseon dynasty monarch of Korea known for consolidating royal authority, promoting Confucian governance, and overseeing significant cultural and architectural developments.
- 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: Yi Seong-gye Target entity description: Yi Seong-gye was a Korean military leader and statesman who overthrew the Goryeo dynasty and became the founding king of the Joseon dynasty, ruling as King Taejo.
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A.
King Taejong of Joseon
King Taejong of Joseon was the third monarch of Korea’s Joseon dynasty, known for consolidating royal authority, implementing major administrative and military reforms, and laying foundations for a centralized Confucian state.
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B.
King Taejong Muyeol
King Taejong Muyeol was a 7th-century monarch of the Korean kingdom of Silla who played a key role in the unification of the Korean Peninsula.
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C.
Emperor Gongmin
Emperor Gongmin was a ruler of the Goryeo dynasty in Korea known for his efforts to reform government corruption and reduce Mongol influence in the 14th century.
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D.
Taejo of Goryeo
Taejo of Goryeo was the first king of the Goryeo dynasty in Korea, who unified the Later Three Kingdoms and established the foundation of a new Korean state in the 10th century.
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E.
King Seongjong
King Seongjong was a Joseon dynasty monarch of Korea known for consolidating royal authority, promoting Confucian governance, and overseeing significant cultural and architectural developments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Yi Seong-gye Description of subject: Yi Seong-gye was a Korean military leader and statesman who overthrew the Goryeo dynasty and became the founding king of the Joseon dynasty, ruling as King Taejo.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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