King of Joseon
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King of Joseon was the hereditary monarch of Korea’s Joseon Dynasty, serving as the supreme political and military ruler and central figure of the kingdom’s Confucian state.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| King of Joseon canonical | 20 |
| King of Great Joseon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5690736 — 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: King of Joseon Context triple: [Sejong the Great, positionHeld, King of Joseon]
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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 Jangsu
King Jangsu was a powerful 5th-century monarch of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo who greatly expanded its territory and presided over a period of political and cultural flourishing.
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King Seonjo of Joseon
King Seonjo of Joseon was the 14th monarch of Korea’s Joseon dynasty, known for his troubled reign during the Japanese invasions of the late 16th century and the resulting political and social upheaval.
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D.
Jeongjo of Joseon
Jeongjo of Joseon was an 18th-century Korean king renowned for his reformist policies, efforts to strengthen royal authority, and promotion of scholarship and culture during the late Joseon dynasty.
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E.
Yi Seong-gye
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.
- 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: King of Joseon Target entity description: King of Joseon was the hereditary monarch of Korea’s Joseon Dynasty, serving as the supreme political and military ruler and central figure of the kingdom’s Confucian state.
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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 Jangsu
King Jangsu was a powerful 5th-century monarch of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo who greatly expanded its territory and presided over a period of political and cultural flourishing.
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C.
King Seonjo of Joseon
King Seonjo of Joseon was the 14th monarch of Korea’s Joseon dynasty, known for his troubled reign during the Japanese invasions of the late 16th century and the resulting political and social upheaval.
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D.
Jeongjo of Joseon
Jeongjo of Joseon was an 18th-century Korean king renowned for his reformist policies, efforts to strengthen royal authority, and promotion of scholarship and culture during the late Joseon dynasty.
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E.
Yi Seong-gye
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: King of Joseon Description of subject: King of Joseon was the hereditary monarch of Korea’s Joseon Dynasty, serving as the supreme political and military ruler and central figure of the kingdom’s Confucian state.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.