Jeong
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Jeong is a Korean given name commonly used for both males and females, often associated with meanings related to affection, virtue, or righteousness depending on the hanja used.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeong canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10730898 — 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: Jeong Context triple: [Heo Jeong, givenName, Jeong]
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A.
Jeong
Jeong is the Korean family name of Ken Jeong, the American comedian, actor, and physician known for roles in "The Hangover" series and the TV show "Community."
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B.
Jinwicheon
Jinwicheon is a river flowing through the city of Pyeongtaek in South Korea.
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C.
Jang
Jang is a Korean surname shared by numerous individuals across Korea and the Korean diaspora.
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D.
Jang
Jang is one of the small islands that make up Maloelap Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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E.
Yo-jong
Yo-jong is a North Korean political figure best known as the influential sister of leader Kim Jong-un and a senior official in the ruling Workers’ Party of 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: Jeong Target entity description: Jeong is a Korean given name commonly used for both males and females, often associated with meanings related to affection, virtue, or righteousness depending on the hanja used.
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A.
Jeong
Jeong is the Korean family name of Ken Jeong, the American comedian, actor, and physician known for roles in "The Hangover" series and the TV show "Community."
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B.
Jinwicheon
Jinwicheon is a river flowing through the city of Pyeongtaek in South Korea.
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C.
Jang
Jang is a Korean surname shared by numerous individuals across Korea and the Korean diaspora.
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D.
Jang
Jang is one of the small islands that make up Maloelap Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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E.
Yo-jong
Yo-jong is a North Korean political figure best known as the influential sister of leader Kim Jong-un and a senior official in the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Korean given name
ⓘ
unisex given name ⓘ |
| alternativeRomanization |
Chung
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jong NERFINISHED ⓘ Jung NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedMeaning |
affection
ⓘ
correctness or propriety (for some hanja) ⓘ quietness or stillness (for some hanja) ⓘ righteousness ⓘ uprightness ⓘ virtue ⓘ |
| canBeNameElement | true ⓘ |
| canBeSingleSyllableName | true ⓘ |
| canBeWrittenIn | Hanja NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation | Korean concepts of affection and attachment (정, jeong) ⓘ |
| exampleCompositeName |
Hye-jeong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jeong-eun NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeong-ho NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeong-min NERFINISHED ⓘ Mi-jeong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genderUsage |
female
ⓘ
male ⓘ |
| hasHanjaVariants | true ⓘ |
| isHomophonousWith | multiple hanja characters pronounced 정 ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Korean ⓘ |
| meaningDependsOn | chosen hanja characters ⓘ |
| nameCategory | Korean unisex given names ⓘ |
| nameLengthInHangulSyllables | 1 ⓘ |
| nameType | given name ⓘ |
| nameUsage |
modern
ⓘ
traditional ⓘ |
| positionInTwoSyllableName |
first syllable
ⓘ
second syllable ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Korean given name conventions
ⓘ
Korean hanja name meanings ⓘ |
| requiresHanjaRegistrationInSouthKorea | true ⓘ |
| romanizationOf | 정 ⓘ |
| romanizationSystem | Revised Romanization of Korean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptForm | 정 ⓘ |
| transliterationNote | may appear as family name romanization but is distinct as given name ⓘ |
| usageRegion |
Korean diaspora
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Hangul ⓘ |
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: Jeong Description of subject: Jeong is a Korean given name commonly used for both males and females, often associated with meanings related to affection, virtue, or righteousness depending on the hanja used.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.