Gojong of Korea
E193590
19th-century Korean person
20th-century Korean person
Emperor of Korea
King of Joseon
historical figure
monarch
Gojong of Korea was the monarch who transformed the Joseon Kingdom into the Korean Empire and became its first emperor during a period of intense foreign pressure and modernization.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gojong of Korea canonical | 7 |
| Gwangmu | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1709312 — 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: Gojong of Korea Context triple: [Korean Empire, firstEmperor, Gojong of Korea]
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A.
Daehan Minguk
Daehan Minguk is the Korean name for the Republic of Korea, the East Asian nation commonly known as South Korea.
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B.
Joseon
Joseon was a Korean dynastic kingdom that ruled the Korean Peninsula from the late 14th to the late 19th century, known for consolidating Confucian state ideology and fostering significant cultural and technological developments.
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C.
Hanguk Suhwagi
Hanguk Suhwagi is the Korean Sign Language used by the Deaf community in South Korea for everyday communication and cultural expression.
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D.
Mother of Korea
Mother of Korea is an honorific title given to Kim Jong-suk, revered in North Korean state ideology as a revolutionary heroine and idealized maternal figure of the nation.
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E.
Gojoseon
Gojoseon was an ancient Korean kingdom traditionally regarded as the first Korean state and the foundation of early Korean civilization.
- 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: Gojong of Korea Target entity description: Gojong of Korea was the monarch who transformed the Joseon Kingdom into the Korean Empire and became its first emperor during a period of intense foreign pressure and modernization.
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A.
Daehan Minguk
Daehan Minguk is the Korean name for the Republic of Korea, the East Asian nation commonly known as South Korea.
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B.
Joseon
Joseon was a Korean dynastic kingdom that ruled the Korean Peninsula from the late 14th to the late 19th century, known for consolidating Confucian state ideology and fostering significant cultural and technological developments.
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C.
Hanguk Suhwagi
Hanguk Suhwagi is the Korean Sign Language used by the Deaf community in South Korea for everyday communication and cultural expression.
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D.
Mother of Korea
Mother of Korea is an honorific title given to Kim Jong-suk, revered in North Korean state ideology as a revolutionary heroine and idealized maternal figure of the nation.
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E.
Gojoseon
Gojoseon was an ancient Korean kingdom traditionally regarded as the first Korean state and the foundation of early Korean civilization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Gojong of Korea Description of subject: Gojong of Korea was the monarch who transformed the Joseon Kingdom into the Korean Empire and became its first emperor during a period of intense foreign pressure and modernization.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Gwangmu