Than Shwe

E218976

head of state human military officer politician

Than Shwe is a Burmese military general who served as the de facto ruler of Myanmar, leading its authoritarian junta for nearly two decades.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Than Shwe canonical	13

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	head of state ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ
continentOfCitizenship	Asia ⓘ
countryLed	Myanmar ⓘ surface form: Burma Myanmar ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Myanmar ⓘ surface form: Burma Myanmar ⓘ
deFactoRulerOf	Myanmar ⓘ surface form: Burma Myanmar ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Bamar ⓘ
governanceStyle	authoritarian ⓘ military rule ⓘ
governmentTypeLed	authoritarian regime ⓘ military junta ⓘ
hasRole	military leader ⓘ political leader ⓘ
ideology	military authoritarianism ⓘ
involvedIn	Tatmadaw ⓘ surface form: Burmese military government Myanmar politics ⓘ
languageSpoken	Burmese ⓘ
militaryBranch	Myanmar Army ⓘ Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) ⓘ surface form: Tatmadaw
militaryRank	Senior General ⓘ
name	Than Shwe self-link ⓘ
notableEvent	leadership of State Peace and Development Council ⓘ long-term de facto rule of Myanmar ⓘ
notableFor	authoritarian rule ⓘ human rights abuses under his regime ⓘ leading Myanmar’s authoritarian military junta ⓘ
occupation	military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ
partOf	Tatmadaw ⓘ surface form: Myanmar military junta
positionHeld	Chairman of the State Law and Order Restoration Council ⓘ Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council ⓘ Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Myanmar ⓘ head of the military junta of Myanmar ⓘ
powerBase	Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) ⓘ surface form: Myanmar Armed Forces Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) ⓘ surface form: Tatmadaw
regionGoverned	Southeast Asia ⓘ
residence	Myanmar ⓘ Naypyidaw ⓘ

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: Than Shwe
Description of subject: Than Shwe is a Burmese military general who served as the de facto ruler of Myanmar, leading its authoritarian junta for nearly two decades.

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

State Law and Order Restoration Council → leader → Than Shwe ⓘ

State Law and Order Restoration Council → chairman → Than Shwe ⓘ

State Peace and Development Council → headOfState → Than Shwe ⓘ

State Peace and Development Council → chairperson → Than Shwe ⓘ

SLORC → leader → Than Shwe ⓘ

Na Wa Ta → notableLeader → Than Shwe ⓘ

Saw Maung → successor → Than Shwe ⓘ

Than Shwe → name → Than Shwe self-link ⓘ

SPDC → chairman → Than Shwe ⓘ

subject surface form: State Peace and Development Council

Tatmadaw → hasNotableCommander → Than Shwe ⓘ

2010 Myanmar general election → associatedWithLeader → Than Shwe ⓘ

Khin Nyunt → appointedBy → Than Shwe ⓘ

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Burma → officeHoldersInclude → Than Shwe ⓘ