Yusof Ishak
E123105
Yusof Ishak was a Singaporean statesman who became the country’s first president after its independence, symbolizing national unity and multicultural identity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yusof Ishak canonical | 14 |
| Yusof bin Ishak | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1079493 — 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: Yusof Ishak Context triple: [President of Singapore, firstHolder, Yusof Ishak]
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A.
Tuanku Ja’afar
Tuanku Ja’afar was the tenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia and a long-serving ruler of the state of Negeri Sembilan.
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B.
Rashid Sidek
Rashid Sidek is a former Malaysian badminton player renowned as one of the prominent Sidek brothers and a key figure in Malaysia’s international badminton success in the 1990s.
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C.
Chin Peng
Chin Peng was the longtime leader of the Malayan Communist Party who headed the communist insurgency against British and Malayan authorities during and after the Malayan Emergency.
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D.
Rahman Sidek
Rahman Sidek is a former Malaysian badminton player from the renowned Sidek family, known for representing Malaysia internationally and contributing to the country's badminton legacy.
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E.
Hassanal Bolkiah
Hassanal Bolkiah is the Sultan of Brunei, one of the world's longest-reigning absolute monarchs and among its wealthiest rulers.
- 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: Yusof Ishak Target entity description: Yusof Ishak was a Singaporean statesman who became the country’s first president after its independence, symbolizing national unity and multicultural identity.
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A.
Tuanku Ja’afar
Tuanku Ja’afar was the tenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia and a long-serving ruler of the state of Negeri Sembilan.
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B.
Rashid Sidek
Rashid Sidek is a former Malaysian badminton player renowned as one of the prominent Sidek brothers and a key figure in Malaysia’s international badminton success in the 1990s.
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C.
Chin Peng
Chin Peng was the longtime leader of the Malayan Communist Party who headed the communist insurgency against British and Malayan authorities during and after the Malayan Emergency.
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D.
Rahman Sidek
Rahman Sidek is a former Malaysian badminton player from the renowned Sidek family, known for representing Malaysia internationally and contributing to the country's badminton legacy.
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E.
Hassanal Bolkiah
Hassanal Bolkiah is the Sultan of Brunei, one of the world's longest-reigning absolute monarchs and among its wealthiest rulers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Yusof Ishak Description of subject: Yusof Ishak was a Singaporean statesman who became the country’s first president after its independence, symbolizing national unity and multicultural identity.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yusof Ishak
linked to: Yusof Ishak
subject linked to:
Yusof Ishak House at National University of Singapore
subject linked to:
Yusof Ishak House at National University of Singapore
subject linked to:
Yusof Ishak House at National University of Singapore