Yi Myŏngbak
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Yi Myŏngbak is a South Korean businessman-turned-politician who served as the country's president from 2008 to 2013.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yi Myŏngbak canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10730625 — 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 Myŏngbak Context triple: [Lee Myung-bak, alternateRomanization, Yi Myŏngbak]
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A.
Yi Myeong-bok
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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B.
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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C.
Ahn Byung-mu
Ahn Byung-mu was a South Korean theologian and biblical scholar who became a leading figure in developing Minjung theology, a movement emphasizing the liberation and lived experiences of oppressed people.
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D.
Chung Ju-yung
Chung Ju-yung was a South Korean entrepreneur and industrialist who built the Hyundai conglomerate into one of the country’s largest and most influential business empires.
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E.
Choe Si-hyeong
Choe Si-hyeong was a prominent 19th-century Korean religious leader who guided and systematized the Donghak (Eastern Learning) movement after its founder’s death.
- 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 Myŏngbak Target entity description: Yi Myŏngbak is a South Korean businessman-turned-politician who served as the country's president from 2008 to 2013.
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A.
Yi Myeong-bok
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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B.
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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C.
Ahn Byung-mu
Ahn Byung-mu was a South Korean theologian and biblical scholar who became a leading figure in developing Minjung theology, a movement emphasizing the liberation and lived experiences of oppressed people.
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D.
Chung Ju-yung
Chung Ju-yung was a South Korean entrepreneur and industrialist who built the Hyundai conglomerate into one of the country’s largest and most influential business empires.
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E.
Choe Si-hyeong
Choe Si-hyeong was a prominent 19th-century Korean religious leader who guided and systematized the Donghak (Eastern Learning) movement after its founder’s death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Myŏngbak Description of subject: Yi Myŏngbak is a South Korean businessman-turned-politician who served as the country's president from 2008 to 2013.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.