Lee Teng-hui
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Lee Teng-hui was a Taiwanese politician who served as the first democratically elected president of the Republic of China and is often called the “father of Taiwan’s democracy.”
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lee Teng-hui canonical | 5 |
| 李登輝 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1430225 — 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: Lee Teng-hui Context triple: [Director-General of the Kuomintang, officeHolder, Lee Teng-hui]
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A.
Chiang Ching-kuo
Chiang Ching-kuo was a Taiwanese political and military leader who served as President of the Republic of China and initiated significant political and economic reforms that paved the way for Taiwan’s democratization.
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B.
Chiang Wei-kuo
Chiang Wei-kuo was a Chinese military officer and the adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek, noted for his service in both the German Wehrmacht during World War II and later in Taiwan’s armed forces.
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C.
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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D.
Tsai Ing-wen
Tsai Ing-wen is the President of Taiwan and its first female leader, known for her firm stance on Taiwan’s democracy and cautious approach to relations with China.
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E.
Hsu Yung-chang
Hsu Yung-chang was a Chinese military representative who took part in formalizing Japan’s World War II surrender by signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender.
- 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: Lee Teng-hui Target entity description: Lee Teng-hui was a Taiwanese politician who served as the first democratically elected president of the Republic of China and is often called the “father of Taiwan’s democracy.”
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A.
Chiang Ching-kuo
Chiang Ching-kuo was a Taiwanese political and military leader who served as President of the Republic of China and initiated significant political and economic reforms that paved the way for Taiwan’s democratization.
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B.
Chiang Wei-kuo
Chiang Wei-kuo was a Chinese military officer and the adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek, noted for his service in both the German Wehrmacht during World War II and later in Taiwan’s armed forces.
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C.
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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D.
Tsai Ing-wen
Tsai Ing-wen is the President of Taiwan and its first female leader, known for her firm stance on Taiwan’s democracy and cautious approach to relations with China.
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E.
Hsu Yung-chang
Hsu Yung-chang was a Chinese military representative who took part in formalizing Japan’s World War II surrender by signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
President of the Republic of China
ⓘ
Taiwanese person ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Agricultural Economics
ⓘ
Master of Agricultural Economics ⓘ PhD in Agricultural Economics ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Order of Brilliant Star
ⓘ
Order of Propitious Clouds ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1923-01-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Sanzhi District, New Taipei, Taiwan
ⓘ
Sanzhi, Taihoku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
multiple organ failure
ⓘ
septic shock ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Republic of China ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2020-07-30 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Taipei, Taiwan ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cornell University
ⓘ
Iowa State College ⓘ
surface form:
Iowa State University
National Taiwan University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Hoklo Taiwanese ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | agricultural economics ⓘ |
| founded | Taiwan Solidarity Union ⓘ |
| ideology |
Taiwanese localization
ⓘ
democracy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
democratization of Taiwan
ⓘ
first democratically elected president of the Republic of China ⓘ promoting Taiwanese identity ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Kuomintang ⓘ |
| militaryService | Imperial Japanese Army ⓘ |
| name | Lee Teng-hui self-link ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Lee Teng-hui
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
李登輝
|
| nickname | father of Taiwan’s democracy ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| officeEnd |
Governor of Taiwan Province: 1984-05-20
ⓘ
Mayor of Taipei: 1981-06-05 ⓘ President of the Republic of China: 2000-05-20 ⓘ Vice President of the Republic of China: 1988-01-13 ⓘ |
| officeStart |
Governor of Taiwan Province: 1981-12-05
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Mayor of Taipei: 1978-06-09 ⓘ President of the Republic of China: 1988-01-13 ⓘ Vice President of the Republic of China: 1984-05-20 ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of the Kuomintang
ⓘ
Governor of Taiwan Province ⓘ Mayor of Taipei ⓘ President of the Republic of China ⓘ Vice President of the Republic of China ⓘ |
| precededBy | Chiang Ching-kuo ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
|
| spouse | Tseng Wen-hui ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Chen Shui-bian ⓘ |
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: Lee Teng-hui Description of subject: Lee Teng-hui was a Taiwanese politician who served as the first democratically elected president of the Republic of China and is often called the “father of Taiwan’s democracy.”
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
李登輝