Ieng Sary
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Ieng Sary was a senior Cambodian communist politician and co-founder of the Khmer Rouge who served as its foreign minister and was later charged with crimes against humanity for his role in the regime’s atrocities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ieng Sary canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3707896 — 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: Ieng Sary Context triple: [Khmer Rouge, leader, Ieng Sary]
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A.
Nuon Chea
Nuon Chea was a senior Khmer Rouge leader and chief ideologue who served as Pol Pot’s deputy and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in Cambodia’s genocidal regime.
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B.
Lon Nol
Lon Nol was a Cambodian military general and politician who led the coup that overthrew Prince Norodom Sihanouk and headed the U.S.-backed Khmer Republic in the early 1970s.
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C.
Pol Pot
Pol Pot was the leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime, responsible for the genocidal policies that led to the deaths of an estimated 1.5 to 2 million people in the late 1970s.
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D.
Khieu Samphan
Khieu Samphan is a Cambodian communist politician who served as head of state of Democratic Kampuchea under the Khmer Rouge and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in the regime.
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E.
Vang Pao
Vang Pao was a Hmong general and key CIA-backed military leader who commanded Hmong forces in Laos during the Vietnam era and later became a prominent figure in the Hmong-American diaspora.
- 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: Ieng Sary Target entity description: Ieng Sary was a senior Cambodian communist politician and co-founder of the Khmer Rouge who served as its foreign minister and was later charged with crimes against humanity for his role in the regime’s atrocities.
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A.
Nuon Chea
Nuon Chea was a senior Khmer Rouge leader and chief ideologue who served as Pol Pot’s deputy and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in Cambodia’s genocidal regime.
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B.
Lon Nol
Lon Nol was a Cambodian military general and politician who led the coup that overthrew Prince Norodom Sihanouk and headed the U.S.-backed Khmer Republic in the early 1970s.
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C.
Pol Pot
Pol Pot was the leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime, responsible for the genocidal policies that led to the deaths of an estimated 1.5 to 2 million people in the late 1970s.
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D.
Khieu Samphan
Khieu Samphan is a Cambodian communist politician who served as head of state of Democratic Kampuchea under the Khmer Rouge and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in the regime.
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E.
Vang Pao
Vang Pao was a Hmong general and key CIA-backed military leader who commanded Hmong forces in Laos during the Vietnam era and later became a prominent figure in the Hmong-American diaspora.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Ieng Sary Description of subject: Ieng Sary was a senior Cambodian communist politician and co-founder of the Khmer Rouge who served as its foreign minister and was later charged with crimes against humanity for his role in the regime’s atrocities.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.