Min Ko Naing
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Min Ko Naing is a prominent Burmese pro-democracy activist and former student leader renowned for his role in organizing resistance against military rule in Myanmar.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Min Ko Naing canonical | 4 |
| Paw Oo Tun | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T60490 — 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: Min Ko Naing Context triple: [Sydney Peace Prize, hasRecipient, Min Ko Naing]
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A.
Cynthia Maung
Cynthia Maung is a Burmese physician and human rights activist renowned for founding the Mae Tao Clinic on the Thai-Myanmar border to provide healthcare for refugees and displaced people.
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B.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
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C.
Fang-Howard Chang
Fang-Howard Chang is an engineer and innovator recognized with the prestigious Edison Medal for his significant contributions to electrical science and technology.
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D.
Le Duc Tho
Le Duc Tho was a Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and Politburo member best known for co-negotiating the end of the Vietnam War and uniquely declining the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973.
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E.
Mako Mori
Mako Mori is a skilled Jaeger pilot and central protagonist in the science fiction film "Pacific Rim," known for her emotional depth, resilience, and pivotal role in humanity’s fight against the Kaiju.
- 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: Min Ko Naing Target entity description: Min Ko Naing is a prominent Burmese pro-democracy activist and former student leader renowned for his role in organizing resistance against military rule in Myanmar.
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A.
Cynthia Maung
Cynthia Maung is a Burmese physician and human rights activist renowned for founding the Mae Tao Clinic on the Thai-Myanmar border to provide healthcare for refugees and displaced people.
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B.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
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C.
Fang-Howard Chang
Fang-Howard Chang is an engineer and innovator recognized with the prestigious Edison Medal for his significant contributions to electrical science and technology.
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D.
Le Duc Tho
Le Duc Tho was a Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and Politburo member best known for co-negotiating the end of the Vietnam War and uniquely declining the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973.
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E.
Mako Mori
Mako Mori is a skilled Jaeger pilot and central protagonist in the science fiction film "Pacific Rim," known for her emotional depth, resilience, and pivotal role in humanity’s fight against the Kaiju.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Burmese democracy activist
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human ⓘ political prisoner ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
democracy in Myanmar
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human rights in Myanmar ⓘ release of political prisoners in Myanmar ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Gwangju Prize for Human Rights
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Homo Homini Award ⓘ Reebok Human Rights Award ⓘ Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought ⓘ Student Peace Prize ⓘ |
| birthName |
Paw Oo Tun
ⓘ
linked to:
Min Ko Naing
|
| co-recipientWith | Aung San Suu Kyi ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Myanmar ⓘ |
| detentionReason | peaceful political activities ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Rangoon Arts and Science University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Bamar ⓘ |
| founded |
All Burma Federation of Student Unions (reorganized underground)
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linked to:
All Burma Federation of Student Unions
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| hasBeenImprisonedBy |
Myanmar military junta
ⓘ
linked to:
State Peace and Development Council
|
| hasInfluenced | younger generations of Burmese activists ⓘ |
| knownFor |
charismatic public speeches
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long-term imprisonment for political activities ⓘ organizing student demonstrations ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Burmese ⓘ |
| memberOf | All Burma Federation of Student Unions ⓘ |
| movement | pro-democracy movement in Myanmar ⓘ |
| name | Min Ko Naing ⓘ |
| nationality | Burmese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in the 1988 pro-democracy uprising in Myanmar
ⓘ
opposition to military rule in Myanmar ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
ⓘ
student leader ⓘ |
| opposes |
State Law and Order Restoration Council
ⓘ
State Peace and Development Council ⓘ military dictatorship in Myanmar ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1988 Burmese pro-democracy protests
ⓘ
2007 Burmese anti-government protests ⓘ
linked to:
Saffron Revolution
2021 Myanmar anti-coup protests ⓘ Saffron Revolution ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Burma
ⓘ
linked to:
Myanmar
Yangon ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | pro-democracy ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| role | student leader during the 1988 uprising ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
international human rights campaigns
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reports by Amnesty International ⓘ reports by Human Rights Watch ⓘ |
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: Min Ko Naing Description of subject: Min Ko Naing is a prominent Burmese pro-democracy activist and former student leader renowned for his role in organizing resistance against military rule in Myanmar.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Min Ko Naing