Yoo Soon-taek
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Yoo Soon-taek is a South Korean figure best known as the wife of former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and for her involvement in various social and charitable activities.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yoo Soon-taek canonical | 8 |
| Soon-taek | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T403862 — 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: Yoo Soon-taek Context triple: [Ban Ki-moon, spouse, Yoo Soon-taek]
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A.
Kim Hyong-jik
Kim Hyong-jik was a Korean independence activist and educator, best known as the father of North Korea’s founding leader Kim Il Sung.
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B.
Kang Pan-sok
Kang Pan-sok was a Korean woman best known as the mother of North Korea’s founding leader Kim Il Sung and is venerated in North Korean state mythology.
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C.
Kim Jong-suk
Kim Jong-suk was a Korean anti-Japanese guerrilla fighter and revered North Korean revolutionary figure, celebrated as the first wife of Kim Il Sung and mother of Kim Jong Il.
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D.
Kim Sung-ae
Kim Sung-ae was the second wife of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung and a prominent political figure who headed the country’s women’s organization.
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E.
Ang Lee
Ang Lee is a Taiwanese-born film director acclaimed for his visually inventive and emotionally nuanced movies, including "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Brokeback Mountain," and "Life of Pi."
- 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: Yoo Soon-taek Target entity description: Yoo Soon-taek is a South Korean figure best known as the wife of former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and for her involvement in various social and charitable activities.
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A.
Kim Hyong-jik
Kim Hyong-jik was a Korean independence activist and educator, best known as the father of North Korea’s founding leader Kim Il Sung.
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B.
Kang Pan-sok
Kang Pan-sok was a Korean woman best known as the mother of North Korea’s founding leader Kim Il Sung and is venerated in North Korean state mythology.
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C.
Kim Jong-suk
Kim Jong-suk was a Korean anti-Japanese guerrilla fighter and revered North Korean revolutionary figure, celebrated as the first wife of Kim Il Sung and mother of Kim Jong Il.
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D.
Kim Sung-ae
Kim Sung-ae was the second wife of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung and a prominent political figure who headed the country’s women’s organization.
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E.
Ang Lee
Ang Lee is a Taiwanese-born film director acclaimed for his visually inventive and emotionally nuanced movies, including "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Brokeback Mountain," and "Life of Pi."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
South Korean person
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| advocacy |
education for children
ⓘ
support for people with disabilities ⓘ support for refugees and vulnerable groups ⓘ women's empowerment ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | United Nations community ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens (informal association through spouse) ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Republic of Korea
ⓘ
linked to:
South Korea
|
| citizenshipStatus | natural-born citizen of South Korea ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | South Korea ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Ehwa Womans University (attended, did not graduate) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Korean ⓘ |
| familyName | Yoo ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
children's welfare
ⓘ
philanthropy ⓘ social welfare ⓘ women's issues ⓘ |
| givenName |
Soon-taek
ⓘ
linked to:
Yoo Soon-taek
|
| hasChild |
Ban Hyun-hee
ⓘ
Ban Hyun-woo ⓘ
linked to:
Ban Woo-hyun
Ban Woo-hyun ⓘ |
| hasResidenceDuringSpouseTerm | Official residence of the UN Secretary-General in New York ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Madame Ban ⓘ |
| knownFor |
participation in UN-related social events
ⓘ
supporting Ban Ki-moon's diplomatic career ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned |
English
ⓘ
Korean ⓘ |
| lifePartner | Ban Ki-moon ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Yoo Soon-taek ⓘ |
| notableEvent | served as UN Secretary-General's spouse during two terms ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
ⓘ
charitable activities ⓘ social activities ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| participatedIn | United Nations spouses' programs ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | South Korea ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Spouse of the Secretary-General of the United Nations ⓘ |
| religion | Protestantism ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
ⓘ
Seoul ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Ban Ki-moon ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | Secretary-General of the United Nations ⓘ |
| spouseOffice | Secretary-General of the United Nations ⓘ |
| spouseTermEnd | 2016 ⓘ |
| spouseTermStart | 2007 ⓘ |
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: Yoo Soon-taek Description of subject: Yoo Soon-taek is a South Korean figure best known as the wife of former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and for her involvement in various social and charitable activities.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.