Lee Sedol

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Lee Sedol is a South Korean professional Go player renowned as one of the strongest players in history and for his landmark 2016 match against DeepMind's AlphaGo.

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Lee Sedol canonical 2
AlphaGo Lee 1
이세돌 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf human
professional Go player
achievement considered one of the top Go players of the 2000s
won multiple international Go titles
activeYears 1990s–2010s
announcedRetirement 2019
birthDate 1983-03-02
birthPlace Sinan County, South Jeolla, South Korea
boardGame Go
children has a daughter
countryOfCitizenship South Korea
era 21st-century Go players
familyName Lee
famousMove Move 78 in Game 4 vs AlphaGo
gender male
givenName Sedol
goAssociation Korea Baduk Association
goRank 9 dan professional
hasHonorificTitle “The Strong Stone” (nickname)
influenced younger generations of Go players
influencedBy earlier Korean Go professionals
language Korean
maritalStatus married
matchDate 2016-03
matchFormat five-game match
matchLocation Seoul
surface form: Seoul, South Korea
matchResult lost 1–4 to AlphaGo
mediaAppearance featured in global media coverage of AlphaGo match
name Lee Sedol self-link
nativeName Lee Sedol self-linksurface differs
surface form: 이세돌
notableFor being one of the strongest Go players in history
playing a five-game match against AlphaGo in 2016
notableGame Game 4 against AlphaGo in 2016
notableOpponent Gu Li
Ke Jie
Lee Chang-ho
occupation Go player
opponent AlphaGo
reasonForRetirement impact of AI on professional Go
residence South Korea
sibling Lee Sedol’s older brother Lee Sang-hoon
sport mind sports
stated no longer felt he could be the absolute best because of AI
styleOfPlay creative play
fighting style
subjectOf documentaries about AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol
numerous Go commentaries and analyses
turnedProfessional 1995

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AlphaGo notableWork Lee Sedol
this entity surface form: AlphaGo Lee
AlphaGo opponent Lee Sedol
Lee Sedol name Lee Sedol self-link
Lee Sedol nativeName Lee Sedol self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: 이세돌