Lin Gie-Ming
E129668
Lin Gie-Ming is the father of former NBA point guard Jeremy Lin, known for his Taiwanese heritage and influence on Jeremy’s upbringing and education.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lin Gie-Ming canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T855032 — 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: Lin Gie-Ming Context triple: [Jeremy Lin, parent, Lin Gie-Ming]
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A.
Tsai Chongxin
Tsai Chongxin, better known as Joe Tsai, is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman and co-founder of Alibaba Group.
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B.
Peng Chun Chang
Peng Chun Chang was a Chinese diplomat, philosopher, and educator who played a key role in shaping the philosophical foundations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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C.
Chen Cheng
Chen Cheng was a prominent Chinese military leader and politician who played key roles in the Nationalist government and later served as Premier and Vice President of the Republic of China in Taiwan.
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D.
Chiang Chieh-shih
Chiang Chieh-shih is the birth name of Chiang Kai-shek, the influential 20th-century Chinese political and military leader who headed the Republic of China.
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E.
Zhang Fakui
Zhang Fakui was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general who played key roles in major early battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- 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: Lin Gie-Ming Target entity description: Lin Gie-Ming is the father of former NBA point guard Jeremy Lin, known for his Taiwanese heritage and influence on Jeremy’s upbringing and education.
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A.
Tsai Chongxin
Tsai Chongxin, better known as Joe Tsai, is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman and co-founder of Alibaba Group.
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B.
Peng Chun Chang
Peng Chun Chang was a Chinese diplomat, philosopher, and educator who played a key role in shaping the philosophical foundations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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C.
Chen Cheng
Chen Cheng was a prominent Chinese military leader and politician who played key roles in the Nationalist government and later served as Premier and Vice President of the Republic of China in Taiwan.
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D.
Chiang Chieh-shih
Chiang Chieh-shih is the birth name of Chiang Kai-shek, the influential 20th-century Chinese political and military leader who headed the Republic of China.
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E.
Zhang Fakui
Zhang Fakui was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general who played key roles in major early battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
father
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human ⓘ |
| child | Jeremy Lin ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Formosa
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surface form:
Taiwan
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| countryOfOrigin |
Taiwan, Province of China
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surface form:
Taiwan
|
| encouraged |
Jeremy Lin’s academic achievement
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Jeremy Lin’s basketball development ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Taiwanese ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| influenced | Jeremy Lin ⓘ |
| influenceOn |
Jeremy Lin’s education
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Jeremy Lin’s upbringing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Taiwanese heritage
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being the father of NBA player Jeremy Lin ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| name | Lin Gie-Ming self-link ⓘ |
| notableChild | Jeremy Lin ⓘ |
| notableFor | supporting Jeremy Lin’s basketball career ⓘ |
| parentOf | Jeremy Lin ⓘ |
| partOf | Lin family ⓘ |
| raisedChildInReligion | Christianity ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| spouse | Shirley Lin ⓘ |
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: Lin Gie-Ming Description of subject: Lin Gie-Ming is the father of former NBA point guard Jeremy Lin, known for his Taiwanese heritage and influence on Jeremy’s upbringing and education.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.