Yeon Sang-ho
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Yeon Sang-ho is a South Korean filmmaker best known internationally for directing the hit zombie thriller "Train to Busan" and its related works.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yeon Sang-ho canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5691119 — 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: Yeon Sang-ho Context triple: [Korean film industry, notableDirector, Yeon Sang-ho]
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A.
Yoo Soon-taek
Yoo Soon-taek is a South Korean figure best known as the wife of former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and for her involvement in various social and charitable activities.
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B.
Kim Ki-young
Kim Ki-young was a pioneering South Korean film director best known for his psychologically intense, genre-blending works such as "The Housemaid," which deeply influenced later auteurs like Bong Joon-ho.
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C.
Hwang Dong-hyuk
Hwang Dong-hyuk is a South Korean film and television director and screenwriter best known internationally for creating the hit Netflix survival drama series "Squid Game."
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D.
Im Kwon-taek
Im Kwon-taek is a pioneering South Korean film director renowned for his prolific career and influential works that helped shape modern Korean cinema.
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E.
Na Hong-jin
Na Hong-jin is a South Korean filmmaker renowned for his intense, genre-blending thrillers such as "The Chaser," "The Yellow Sea," and "The Wailing."
- 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: Yeon Sang-ho Target entity description: Yeon Sang-ho is a South Korean filmmaker best known internationally for directing the hit zombie thriller "Train to Busan" and its related works.
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A.
Yoo Soon-taek
Yoo Soon-taek is a South Korean figure best known as the wife of former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and for her involvement in various social and charitable activities.
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B.
Kim Ki-young
Kim Ki-young was a pioneering South Korean film director best known for his psychologically intense, genre-blending works such as "The Housemaid," which deeply influenced later auteurs like Bong Joon-ho.
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C.
Hwang Dong-hyuk
Hwang Dong-hyuk is a South Korean film and television director and screenwriter best known internationally for creating the hit Netflix survival drama series "Squid Game."
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D.
Im Kwon-taek
Im Kwon-taek is a pioneering South Korean film director renowned for his prolific career and influential works that helped shape modern Korean cinema.
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E.
Na Hong-jin
Na Hong-jin is a South Korean filmmaker renowned for his intense, genre-blending thrillers such as "The Chaser," "The Yellow Sea," and "The Wailing."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
South Korean person
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animator ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInIndustrySince | 1990s ⓘ |
| adaptedTo | Hellbound (Netflix series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| almaMater | Sangmyung University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| animationFeatureDebut | The King of Pigs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1978-12-25 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Seoul, South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coCreated | Hellbound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| created | Hellbound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directed |
Hellbound
NERFINISHED
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Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ Psychokinesis NERFINISHED ⓘ Seoul Station NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fake NERFINISHED ⓘ The King of Pigs NERFINISHED ⓘ The King of Pigs (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Train to Busan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featureFilmDebutAsDirector | The King of Pigs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animation
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film directing ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
animation
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horror film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
social commentary in films
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zombie films ⓘ |
| language | Korean ⓘ |
| liveActionFeatureDebut | Train to Busan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Yeon Sang-ho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | South Korean ⓘ |
| nativeName | 연상호 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hellbound
NERFINISHED
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Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ Psychokinesis NERFINISHED ⓘ Seoul Station NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fake NERFINISHED ⓘ The King of Pigs NERFINISHED ⓘ Train to Busan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Hellbound
NERFINISHED
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Psychokinesis NERFINISHED ⓘ Seoul Station NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fake NERFINISHED ⓘ The King of Pigs NERFINISHED ⓘ Train to Busan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Yeon Sang-ho Description of subject: Yeon Sang-ho is a South Korean filmmaker best known internationally for directing the hit zombie thriller "Train to Busan" and its related works.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ma Dong-seok