Yi
E734113
Yi is the royal family name of Korea’s last ruling dynasty, the Joseon (and later Korean Empire) royal house.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yi canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8277842 — 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: Yi Context triple: [Gojong of Korea, familyName, Yi]
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A.
Yi
The Yi are one of China’s largest ethnic minority groups, with a distinct Tibeto-Burman language, traditional dress, and rich folk culture concentrated mainly in the mountainous regions of southwest China.
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B.
Yi
Yi is a common Chinese given name shared by numerous historical and contemporary figures across politics, arts, and other fields.
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C.
Ko Ri
Ko Ri is one of the small islands that make up Thailand’s Surin Islands archipelago in the Andaman Sea.
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D.
Daehan Minguk
Daehan Minguk is the Korean name for the Republic of Korea, the East Asian nation commonly known as South Korea.
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E.
Nam-ku
Nam-ku is the McCune–Reischauer romanization of Nam District, an administrative district in the city of Busan, South Korea.
- 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: Yi Target entity description: Yi is the royal family name of Korea’s last ruling dynasty, the Joseon (and later Korean Empire) royal house.
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A.
Yi
The Yi are one of China’s largest ethnic minority groups, with a distinct Tibeto-Burman language, traditional dress, and rich folk culture concentrated mainly in the mountainous regions of southwest China.
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B.
Yi
Yi is a common Chinese given name shared by numerous historical and contemporary figures across politics, arts, and other fields.
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C.
Ko Ri
Ko Ri is one of the small islands that make up Thailand’s Surin Islands archipelago in the Andaman Sea.
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D.
Daehan Minguk
Daehan Minguk is the Korean name for the Republic of Korea, the East Asian nation commonly known as South Korea.
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E.
Nam-ku
Nam-ku is the McCune–Reischauer romanization of Nam District, an administrative district in the city of Busan, South Korea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Korean royal family name
ⓘ
dynastic surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty |
Joseon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Korean Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Korean-language surnames
ⓘ
Royal families of Korea ⓘ |
| country | Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyNameOf |
Joseon dynasty kings
ⓘ
Korean Empire emperors ⓘ |
| foundingMonarchFamilyName | Taejo of Joseon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hangulForm | 이 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hanjaForm | 李 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRole | royal house surname ⓘ |
| language | Korean ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Gojong of Korea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sunjong of Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ Yi Seong-gye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originPeriod | late 14th century ⓘ |
| region | Korean Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanizationOf | 이 ⓘ |
| romanizationSystem | Revised Romanization of Korean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanizationVariant |
Lee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rhee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| script | Hangul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy |
House of Yi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joseon royal family NERFINISHED ⓘ Korean Empire royal family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedByTitleHolders |
emperors of Korea
ⓘ
kings of Joseon 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: Yi Description of subject: Yi is the royal family name of Korea’s last ruling dynasty, the Joseon (and later Korean Empire) royal house.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.