Supreme Patriarch
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The Supreme Patriarch is the highest-ranking monastic leader and spiritual head of the Jogye Order, Korea’s largest Buddhist order.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Supreme Patriarch canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7629603 — 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: Supreme Patriarch Context triple: [Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, hasLeaderTitle, Supreme Patriarch]
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A.
Maha Ghosananda
Maha Ghosananda was a Cambodian Buddhist monk and peace activist renowned for leading nonviolent resistance and reconciliation efforts after the Khmer Rouge era, becoming a global symbol of socially engaged Buddhism.
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B.
Sulak Sivaraksa
Sulak Sivaraksa is a Thai social activist, Buddhist scholar, and intellectual known for his advocacy of nonviolence, social justice, and engaged Buddhism.
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C.
Savang Vatthana
Savang Vatthana was the last king of Laos, whose reign ended with the communist takeover in 1975 and the subsequent abolition of the monarchy.
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D.
Maha Bandula
Maha Bandula was a prominent early 19th-century Burmese general renowned for leading Burmese forces against the British during the First Anglo-Burmese War.
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E.
Prince Sutasoma
Prince Sutasoma is a noble and compassionate hero in Javanese literature, renowned for his wisdom, nonviolence, and central role in the 14th-century epic poem Kakawin Sutasoma.
- 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: Supreme Patriarch Target entity description: The Supreme Patriarch is the highest-ranking monastic leader and spiritual head of the Jogye Order, Korea’s largest Buddhist order.
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A.
Maha Ghosananda
Maha Ghosananda was a Cambodian Buddhist monk and peace activist renowned for leading nonviolent resistance and reconciliation efforts after the Khmer Rouge era, becoming a global symbol of socially engaged Buddhism.
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B.
Sulak Sivaraksa
Sulak Sivaraksa is a Thai social activist, Buddhist scholar, and intellectual known for his advocacy of nonviolence, social justice, and engaged Buddhism.
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C.
Savang Vatthana
Savang Vatthana was the last king of Laos, whose reign ended with the communist takeover in 1975 and the subsequent abolition of the monarchy.
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D.
Maha Bandula
Maha Bandula was a prominent early 19th-century Burmese general renowned for leading Burmese forces against the British during the First Anglo-Burmese War.
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E.
Prince Sutasoma
Prince Sutasoma is a noble and compassionate hero in Javanese literature, renowned for his wisdom, nonviolence, and central role in the 14th-century epic poem Kakawin Sutasoma.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist ecclesiastical office
ⓘ
religious title ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Jogye Order
ⓘ
linked to:
Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism
|
| associatedWith | Korean Buddhism ⓘ |
| category |
Buddhist religious leaders
ⓘ
Korean religious leaders ⓘ |
| country | South Korea ⓘ |
| hasRole |
overseeing doctrinal and disciplinary matters within the Jogye Order
ⓘ
providing spiritual guidance to Jogye Order monks and lay followers ⓘ representing the Jogye Order in religious and public affairs ⓘ |
| isPositionIn | Korean Buddhist institutions ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism ⓘ |
| leaderOf |
Jogye Order
ⓘ
linked to:
Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism
|
| officeHolderType | Buddhist monk ⓘ |
| officeScope | nationwide within the Jogye Order ⓘ |
| partOf | Jogye Order hierarchy ⓘ |
| positionInOrganization |
highest-ranking monastic leader of the Jogye Order
ⓘ
spiritual head of the Jogye Order ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Korea
ⓘ
South Korean Buddhist community ⓘ |
| relativeRank | highest rank in the Jogye Order ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousSchool |
Seon Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Chan Buddhism
|
| religiousTradition |
Mahayana Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahayana
|
| selectionMethod | elected by senior monks of the Jogye Order ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | Korean ⓘ |
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: Supreme Patriarch Description of subject: The Supreme Patriarch is the highest-ranking monastic leader and spiritual head of the Jogye Order, Korea’s largest Buddhist order.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.