Gaegyeong
E514789
Gaegyeong was the principal royal and administrative capital of the Korean kingdom of Goryeo, located in what is now Kaesong, North Korea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gaegyeong canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5191206 — 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: Gaegyeong Context triple: [Goryeo, capital, Gaegyeong]
-
A.
Bak Hyeokgeose
Bak Hyeokgeose was the legendary first king of Silla, one of Korea’s Three Kingdoms, traditionally credited with establishing its royal dynasty in the 1st century BCE.
-
B.
Gyeongsun of Silla
Gyeongsun of Silla was the final king of the Korean kingdom of Silla, whose reign marked the end of the ancient Three Kingdoms period legacy and the kingdom’s absorption into Goryeo.
-
C.
King Geunchogo
King Geunchogo was a powerful 4th-century monarch of the Korean kingdom of Baekje, known for greatly expanding its territory and strengthening its political and cultural influence.
-
D.
King Jinheung
King Jinheung was a powerful 6th-century monarch of the Korean kingdom of Silla who greatly expanded its territory and laid foundations for the later unification of the Korean Peninsula.
-
E.
Gyeongseong
Gyeongseong was the Japanese colonial-era name for Seoul, which served as the administrative and political center of Korea under Japanese rule.
- 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: Gaegyeong Target entity description: Gaegyeong was the principal royal and administrative capital of the Korean kingdom of Goryeo, located in what is now Kaesong, North Korea.
-
A.
Bak Hyeokgeose
Bak Hyeokgeose was the legendary first king of Silla, one of Korea’s Three Kingdoms, traditionally credited with establishing its royal dynasty in the 1st century BCE.
-
B.
Gyeongsun of Silla
Gyeongsun of Silla was the final king of the Korean kingdom of Silla, whose reign marked the end of the ancient Three Kingdoms period legacy and the kingdom’s absorption into Goryeo.
-
C.
King Geunchogo
King Geunchogo was a powerful 4th-century monarch of the Korean kingdom of Baekje, known for greatly expanding its territory and strengthening its political and cultural influence.
-
D.
King Jinheung
King Jinheung was a powerful 6th-century monarch of the Korean kingdom of Silla who greatly expanded its territory and laid foundations for the later unification of the Korean Peninsula.
-
E.
Gyeongseong
Gyeongseong was the Japanese colonial-era name for Seoul, which served as the administrative and political center of Korea under Japanese rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former city
ⓘ
historical capital city ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Gaeseong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Songdo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty | House of Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
Mongol invasions of Korea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
founding of Goryeo dynasty ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Goryeo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Goryeo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Taejo of Goryeo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function |
cultural center of Goryeo
ⓘ
economic center of Goryeo ⓘ political center of Goryeo ⓘ |
| geopoliticalStatus | former capital now within North Korea ⓘ |
| governedBy | Goryeo monarchy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | site of Kaesong Historic Monuments and Sites NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Goryeo dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Goryeo territory ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Korean ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kaesong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Korean Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ North Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| modernName | Kaesong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Buddhist temples
ⓘ
city walls ⓘ palace complexes ⓘ |
| partOf | history of Korea ⓘ |
| predecessor | Sanggyeong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Hwanghae region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religionDominant | Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religionPresent | Confucianism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
administrative capital of Goryeo
ⓘ
principal royal capital of Goryeo ⓘ |
| scriptOfHistoricalName | Classical Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedAs | seat of central government of Goryeo ⓘ |
| strategicLocation | between northern and southern regions of Korea ⓘ |
| successor |
Hanseong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hanyang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOfSettlement | walled city ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteComponentOf | Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| urbanStructure |
market districts
ⓘ
palace district ⓘ residential quarters ⓘ |
| usedAsCapitalFrom | 918 ⓘ |
| usedAsCapitalUntil | 1392 ⓘ |
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: Gaegyeong Description of subject: Gaegyeong was the principal royal and administrative capital of the Korean kingdom of Goryeo, located in what is now Kaesong, North Korea.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.