Bank of Korea
E43238
The Bank of Korea is the central bank of South Korea, responsible for formulating and implementing the nation’s monetary policy and maintaining financial stability.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bank of Korea canonical | 10 |
| Bank of Korea Act | 1 |
| Bank of Korea Governor | 1 |
| 韓國銀行 | 1 |
| 한국은행 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T320681 — 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: Bank of Korea Context triple: [South Korean won, centralBank, Bank of Korea]
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A.
Bank of Japan
The Bank of Japan is the country's central bank, responsible for issuing currency, implementing monetary policy, and maintaining financial stability in Japan.
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B.
Bank of Thailand
The Bank of Thailand is the country’s central bank, responsible for monetary policy, financial stability, and regulation of the Thai financial system.
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C.
Asian Development Bank
The Asian Development Bank is a regional multilateral development finance institution that promotes economic growth and cooperation in Asia and the Pacific through loans, grants, and technical assistance.
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D.
Bank Indonesia
Bank Indonesia is the central bank of the Republic of Indonesia, responsible for formulating and implementing the country’s monetary policy, maintaining financial system stability, and issuing the national currency.
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E.
Bank of Israel
The Bank of Israel is the central bank of the State of Israel, responsible for formulating monetary policy, maintaining financial stability, and managing the country’s currency and foreign exchange reserves.
- 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: Bank of Korea Target entity description: The Bank of Korea is the central bank of South Korea, responsible for formulating and implementing the nation’s monetary policy and maintaining financial stability.
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A.
Bank of Japan
The Bank of Japan is the country's central bank, responsible for issuing currency, implementing monetary policy, and maintaining financial stability in Japan.
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B.
Bank of Thailand
The Bank of Thailand is the country’s central bank, responsible for monetary policy, financial stability, and regulation of the Thai financial system.
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C.
Asian Development Bank
The Asian Development Bank is a regional multilateral development finance institution that promotes economic growth and cooperation in Asia and the Pacific through loans, grants, and technical assistance.
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D.
Bank Indonesia
Bank Indonesia is the central bank of the Republic of Indonesia, responsible for formulating and implementing the country’s monetary policy, maintaining financial system stability, and issuing the national currency.
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E.
Bank of Israel
The Bank of Israel is the central bank of the State of Israel, responsible for formulating monetary policy, maintaining financial stability, and managing the country’s currency and foreign exchange reserves.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
central bank
ⓘ
public institution ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | South Korea ⓘ |
| currencyCode |
South Korean won
ⓘ
surface form:
KRW
|
| currencyManaged | South Korean won ⓘ |
| employerOf |
central bank economists
ⓘ
monetary policy analysts ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
South Korean government
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Korea
|
| governingBody | Monetary Policy Board ⓘ |
| governs | base interest rate in South Korea ⓘ |
| hasBuildingUse | central bank headquarters ⓘ |
| hasDivision | Monetary Policy Board ⓘ |
| hasLogo | Bank of Korea logo ⓘ |
| hasMainBuilding | Bank of Korea main building ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Jung District, Seoul
ⓘ
Seoul ⓘ |
| inception | 1950 ⓘ |
| issues |
South Korean banknotes
ⓘ
South Korean coins ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Korean ⓘ |
| legalForm | statutory corporation ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Seoul
ⓘ
South Korea ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Korea Standard Time ⓘ |
| manages | foreign exchange policy instruments ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Bank for International Settlements
ⓘ
Executives' Meeting of East Asia-Pacific Central Banks ⓘ International Monetary Fund ⓘ |
| monitors | payment systems in South Korea ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Bank of Korea
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
韓國銀行
Bank of Korea self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
한국은행
|
| officialWebsite | https://www.bok.or.kr ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
banking
ⓘ
financial services ⓘ public finance ⓘ |
| primaryRole |
currency issuance
ⓘ
financial stability maintenance ⓘ lender of last resort ⓘ monetary policy formulation ⓘ price stability maintenance ⓘ |
| publishes |
economic statistics
ⓘ
monetary policy reports ⓘ |
| regulates | money supply in South Korea ⓘ |
| shortName | BOK ⓘ |
| supervises | foreign exchange reserves of South Korea ⓘ |
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: Bank of Korea Description of subject: The Bank of Korea is the central bank of South Korea, responsible for formulating and implementing the nation’s monetary policy and maintaining financial stability.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
한국은행
this entity surface form:
韓國銀行
this entity surface form:
Bank of Korea Governor
this entity surface form:
Bank of Korea Act