Heo Sung-tae
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Heo Sung-tae is a South Korean actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, gaining international recognition for his performance in the hit series "Squid Game."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heo Sung-tae canonical | 10 |
| Jung Gi-cheul | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T956859 — 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: Heo Sung-tae Context triple: [Squid Game, leadActor, Heo Sung-tae]
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A.
Jang Deok-su
Jang Deok-su is a brutal, debt-ridden gangster who serves as one of the primary antagonists in the South Korean survival drama series "Squid Game."
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B.
Cho Sang-woo
Cho Sang-woo is a central character in the South Korean series "Squid Game," portrayed as a once-successful investment banker whose desperation and moral decline drive much of the show's tension and drama.
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C.
Park Hae-soo
Park Hae-soo is a South Korean actor best known internationally for his prominent role in the hit Netflix survival drama series "Squid Game."
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D.
Hwang Jun-ho
Hwang Jun-ho is a determined police officer in the South Korean series "Squid Game" who infiltrates the deadly competition to uncover the truth behind its operations and find his missing brother.
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E.
O Yeong-su
O Yeong-su is a veteran South Korean actor best known internationally for his acclaimed performance as the elderly contestant Oh Il-nam in the Netflix series "Squid Game."
- 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: Heo Sung-tae Target entity description: Heo Sung-tae is a South Korean actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, gaining international recognition for his performance in the hit series "Squid Game."
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A.
Jang Deok-su
Jang Deok-su is a brutal, debt-ridden gangster who serves as one of the primary antagonists in the South Korean survival drama series "Squid Game."
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B.
Cho Sang-woo
Cho Sang-woo is a central character in the South Korean series "Squid Game," portrayed as a once-successful investment banker whose desperation and moral decline drive much of the show's tension and drama.
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C.
Park Hae-soo
Park Hae-soo is a South Korean actor best known internationally for his prominent role in the hit Netflix survival drama series "Squid Game."
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D.
Hwang Jun-ho
Hwang Jun-ho is a determined police officer in the South Korean series "Squid Game" who infiltrates the deadly competition to uncover the truth behind its operations and find his missing brother.
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E.
O Yeong-su
O Yeong-su is a veteran South Korean actor best known internationally for his acclaimed performance as the elderly contestant Oh Il-nam in the Netflix series "Squid Game."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
South Korean actor
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human ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Beyond Evil
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Big Bet ⓘ Hunt ⓘ Racket Boys ⓘ Squid Game ⓘ The Age of Shadows ⓘ The Fortress ⓘ The Silent Sea ⓘ |
| citizenship | South Korean ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | South Korea ⓘ |
| familyName | Heo ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
film
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television drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Sung-tae ⓘ |
| hasInternationalRecognition | true ⓘ |
| industry | South Korean entertainment industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
intense character roles
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villainous roles ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Korean ⓘ |
| name | Heo Sung-tae ⓘ |
| nationality | South Korean ⓘ |
| nativeNameLanguage | ko ⓘ |
| notableRole | Jang Deok-su in Squid Game ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Beyond Evil
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Big Bet ⓘ Hunt ⓘ Racket Boys ⓘ Squid Game ⓘ The Age of Shadows ⓘ The Fortress ⓘ The Silent Sea ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| workLocation | South Korea ⓘ |
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: Heo Sung-tae Description of subject: Heo Sung-tae is a South Korean actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, gaining international recognition for his performance in the hit series "Squid Game."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.