Lê
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Lê is a common Vietnamese surname with historical roots in several prominent dynasties and widely borne by people across Vietnam.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lê canonical | 19 |
| Lê sơ | 1 |
| 黎 (Lí / Lê in Vietnamese historical usage) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7177309 — 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: Lê Context triple: [Lê Công Vinh, familyName, Lê]
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A.
Nguyễn
Nguyễn is a common Vietnamese given name and surname widely used across Vietnam and among the Vietnamese diaspora.
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B.
Tran Quoc Hoan
Tran Quoc Hoan was a prominent Vietnamese communist politician who served as the first Minister of Public Security of North Vietnam.
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C.
Le Minh Tri
Le Minh Tri is a Vietnamese politician and jurist who has served as the head of Vietnam’s top prosecutorial and supervisory authority over legal compliance.
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D.
Le Duc Anh
Le Duc Anh was a Vietnamese general and later president of Vietnam who played a key military role in the final campaigns of the Vietnam War.
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E.
Lê Hoàn
Lê Hoàn was the founding emperor of Vietnam’s Early Lê dynasty, known for consolidating power after the Đinh dynasty and successfully defending the country against Song China in the late 10th century.
- 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: Lê Target entity description: Lê is a common Vietnamese surname with historical roots in several prominent dynasties and widely borne by people across Vietnam.
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A.
Nguyễn
Nguyễn is a common Vietnamese given name and surname widely used across Vietnam and among the Vietnamese diaspora.
-
B.
Tran Quoc Hoan
Tran Quoc Hoan was a prominent Vietnamese communist politician who served as the first Minister of Public Security of North Vietnam.
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C.
Le Minh Tri
Le Minh Tri is a Vietnamese politician and jurist who has served as the head of Vietnam’s top prosecutorial and supervisory authority over legal compliance.
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D.
Le Duc Anh
Le Duc Anh was a Vietnamese general and later president of Vietnam who played a key military role in the final campaigns of the Vietnam War.
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E.
Lê Hoàn
Lê Hoàn was the founding emperor of Vietnam’s Early Lê dynasty, known for consolidating power after the Đinh dynasty and successfully defending the country against Song China in the late 10th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Vietnamese surname ⓘ |
| category |
Surnames of Vietnamese origin
ⓘ
Vietnamese-language surnames ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
associated with Confucian scholar-official families in history
ⓘ
associated with Vietnamese royal lineage ⓘ |
| diasporaUsage | common among Vietnamese diaspora communities ⓘ |
| frequencyInVietnam | very common ⓘ |
| hasDiacritic | ê ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Sino-Vietnamese name ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Le (without diacritic)
ⓘ
Lễ (distinct surname with additional diacritic, sometimes confused) ⓘ |
| historicallyAssociatedWith |
Early Lê dynasty
ⓘ
Later Lê dynasty ⓘ Lê Lợi ⓘ Lê Thánh Tông ⓘ Lê dynasty ⓘ Lê emperors of Đại Việt ⓘ
linked to:
Lê dynasty
|
| languageOfOrigin |
Vietnamese language
ⓘ
linked to:
Vietnamese
|
| nameOrder | placed before given name in Vietnamese full name ⓘ |
| region | used throughout all regions of Vietnam ⓘ |
| romanizationOf |
李
ⓘ
linked to:
Li
黎 ⓘ
linked to:
Li
黎 (Lí / Lê in Vietnamese historical usage) ⓘ
linked to:
Lê
|
| transliteratedAs |
Le in English contexts
ⓘ
Le in international passports ⓘ |
| usedByEthnicGroup |
Kinh people
ⓘ
Vietnamese people ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Vietnam
ⓘ
linked to:
Viet Nam
|
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Lê Description of subject: Lê is a common Vietnamese surname with historical roots in several prominent dynasties and widely borne by people across Vietnam.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.