Tan Hooi Ling
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Tan Hooi Ling is a Malaysian entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading super-app for ride-hailing, deliveries, and digital financial services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tan Hooi Ling canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1482145 — 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: Tan Hooi Ling Context triple: [Grab, foundedBy, Tan Hooi Ling]
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A.
Cheah Soon Kit
Cheah Soon Kit is a former Malaysian badminton player renowned for his achievements in men's doubles on the international stage.
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B.
Eileen Loo
Eileen Loo was the wife of renowned Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei and a supportive partner throughout his celebrated career.
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C.
Anita Chan
Anita Chan is a prominent scholar known for her influential research on Chinese labor issues and labor rights.
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D.
Vivian Chan
Vivian Chan is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals in fields such as science, media, and business.
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E.
Gwen May-Wan Kao
Gwen May-Wan Kao is best known as the wife and long-time partner of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Charles K. Kao, often recognized for supporting his pioneering work in fiber-optic communications.
- 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: Tan Hooi Ling Target entity description: Tan Hooi Ling is a Malaysian entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading super-app for ride-hailing, deliveries, and digital financial services.
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A.
Cheah Soon Kit
Cheah Soon Kit is a former Malaysian badminton player renowned for his achievements in men's doubles on the international stage.
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B.
Eileen Loo
Eileen Loo was the wife of renowned Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei and a supportive partner throughout his celebrated career.
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C.
Anita Chan
Anita Chan is a prominent scholar known for her influential research on Chinese labor issues and labor rights.
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D.
Vivian Chan
Vivian Chan is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals in fields such as science, media, and business.
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E.
Gwen May-Wan Kao
Gwen May-Wan Kao is best known as the wife and long-time partner of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Charles K. Kao, often recognized for supporting his pioneering work in fiber-optic communications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Malaysian person
ⓘ
businessperson ⓘ company founder ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Grab Holdings Inc. ⓘ |
| businessRegion | Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| coFounded | Grab ⓘ |
| coFounderWith | Anthony Tan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Malaysia ⓘ |
| degree |
MBA
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surface form:
MBA from Harvard Business School
engineering degree from the University of Bath ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Business School
ⓘ
University of Bath ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
digital financial services
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on-demand delivery services ⓘ ride-hailing industry ⓘ technology entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| foundedOrganizationIndustry |
digital payments
ⓘ
food delivery ⓘ ride-hailing ⓘ |
| foundedOrganizationType | super-app company ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasFocusOn |
financial inclusion through digital services
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using technology to solve urban mobility problems ⓘ |
| industry |
financial technology
ⓘ
logistics ⓘ technology ⓘ transportation ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Grab ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Malay ⓘ |
| name | Tan Hooi Ling self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Malaysian ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helping scale Grab across multiple Southeast Asian markets ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the leading female tech founders in Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| notableWork | building Grab into a super-app in Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld | co-founder of Grab ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| regionOfInfluence | Southeast Asia ⓘ |
| roleInCompany | product and operations leadership at Grab ⓘ |
| startupEcosystem | Southeast Asian tech startups ⓘ |
| workedAt | McKinsey & Company ⓘ |
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: Tan Hooi Ling Description of subject: Tan Hooi Ling is a Malaysian entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading super-app for ride-hailing, deliveries, and digital financial services.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.