Yi Myeong-bok
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Yi Myeong-bok was the birth name of Gojong, the 26th king of Joseon and first emperor of the Korean Empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yi Myeong-bok canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8277841 — 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 Myeong-bok Context triple: [Gojong of Korea, birthName, Yi Myeong-bok]
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A.
Kim Yong-rae
Kim Yong-rae is a South Korean politician who served as the mayor of Seoul during the period when the city hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics.
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B.
Chang Sŏng-t’aek
Chang Sŏng-t’aek was a powerful North Korean politician and uncle by marriage to Kim Jong-un who was once considered the country’s second-most influential figure before his dramatic purge and execution in 2013.
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C.
Kang Pan-sok
Kang Pan-sok was a Korean woman best known as the mother of North Korea’s founding leader Kim Il Sung and is venerated in North Korean state mythology.
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D.
Suh Yun-bok
Suh Yun-bok was a South Korean long-distance runner best known for winning the 1947 Boston Marathon and later serving as a symbolic sports figure in Korea.
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E.
Jang Kum-song
Jang Kum-song was the daughter of senior North Korean official Kim Kyong-hui and thus a member of North Korea’s ruling Kim family.
- 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 Myeong-bok Target entity description: Yi Myeong-bok was the birth name of Gojong, the 26th king of Joseon and first emperor of the Korean Empire.
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A.
Kim Yong-rae
Kim Yong-rae is a South Korean politician who served as the mayor of Seoul during the period when the city hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics.
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B.
Chang Sŏng-t’aek
Chang Sŏng-t’aek was a powerful North Korean politician and uncle by marriage to Kim Jong-un who was once considered the country’s second-most influential figure before his dramatic purge and execution in 2013.
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C.
Kang Pan-sok
Kang Pan-sok was a Korean woman best known as the mother of North Korea’s founding leader Kim Il Sung and is venerated in North Korean state mythology.
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D.
Suh Yun-bok
Suh Yun-bok was a South Korean long-distance runner best known for winning the 1947 Boston Marathon and later serving as a symbolic sports figure in Korea.
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E.
Jang Kum-song
Jang Kum-song was the daughter of senior North Korean official Kim Kyong-hui and thus a member of North Korea’s ruling Kim family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Yi Myeong-bok Description of subject: Yi Myeong-bok was the birth name of Gojong, the 26th king of Joseon and first emperor of the Korean Empire.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.