Fan Hui
E200547
Fan Hui is a professional Go player who became widely known as the first human defeated by DeepMind's AlphaGo program in an official match.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fan Hui canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1793075 — 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: Fan Hui Context triple: [AlphaGo, opponent, Fan Hui]
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A.
Freddie Chan
Freddie Chan is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake or prominent bearer of the surname Chan.
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B.
Jianhang Jin
Jianhang Jin is a Chinese entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early leader of the e-commerce and technology conglomerate Alibaba Group.
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C.
Frederick Lee
Frederick Lee was a British Labour politician who served in several senior government roles, including as a cabinet minister in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Hau Lee
Hau Lee is a prominent operations and supply chain management scholar known for his influential research on global supply networks and his long-standing professorship at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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E.
Jason Wong
Jason Wong is a British actor known for his roles in film and television, including his appearance in Guy Ritchie's crime-comedy series "The Gentlemen."
- 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: Fan Hui Target entity description: Fan Hui is a professional Go player who became widely known as the first human defeated by DeepMind's AlphaGo program in an official match.
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A.
Freddie Chan
Freddie Chan is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake or prominent bearer of the surname Chan.
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B.
Jianhang Jin
Jianhang Jin is a Chinese entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early leader of the e-commerce and technology conglomerate Alibaba Group.
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C.
Frederick Lee
Frederick Lee was a British Labour politician who served in several senior government roles, including as a cabinet minister in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Hau Lee
Hau Lee is a prominent operations and supply chain management scholar known for his influential research on global supply networks and his long-standing professorship at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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E.
Jason Wong
Jason Wong is a British actor known for his roles in film and television, including his appearance in Guy Ritchie's crime-comedy series "The Gentlemen."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Go player
ⓘ
human ⓘ professional Go player ⓘ |
| awardReceived | European Go Championship title ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
AlphaGo development team
ⓘ
linked to:
AlphaGo
DeepMind ⓘ |
| continentOfCompetition | Europe ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
analysis of professional Go strategies for AI
ⓘ
training and evaluation of AlphaGo ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
China
ⓘ
France ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | October 2015 ⓘ |
| defeatedBy | AlphaGo ⓘ |
| employer | DeepMind ⓘ |
| era | 21st century ⓘ |
| familyName | Fan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Go
ⓘ
artificial intelligence in games ⓘ |
| gamePlayed | Go ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Hui ⓘ |
| hasNotableOpponent | AlphaGo ⓘ |
| knownFor | bridging professional Go and AI research communities ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Chinese
ⓘ
English ⓘ French ⓘ |
| matchResult | lost 0–5 to AlphaGo ⓘ |
| mediaAppearance | documentaries about AlphaGo ⓘ |
| name | Fan Hui ⓘ |
| nativeName | 樊麾 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first human Go player defeated by AlphaGo in an official match
ⓘ
collaborating with DeepMind on Go AI research ⓘ |
| numberOfGamesInMatch | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation |
AI consultant
ⓘ
Go coach ⓘ professional Go player ⓘ |
| participantIn |
AlphaGo vs Fan Hui match
ⓘ
linked to:
AlphaGo
AlphaGo–Fan Hui five-game match in 2015 ⓘ
linked to:
AlphaGo
|
| placeOfBirth | China ⓘ |
| residence |
Europe
ⓘ
France ⓘ |
| role | European Go champion ⓘ |
| sport | Go ⓘ |
| sportDiscipline | board game ⓘ |
| subjectOf | news coverage on AI defeating human Go players ⓘ |
| title | professional 2-dan Go player ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
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: Fan Hui Description of subject: Fan Hui is a professional Go player who became widely known as the first human defeated by DeepMind's AlphaGo program in an official match.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.