Trygve Lie
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Trygve Lie was a Norwegian politician and diplomat who became the first Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving from 1946 to 1952.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Trygve Lie canonical | 7 |
| Trygve | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17170 — 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: Trygve Lie Context triple: [United Nations, firstSecretaryGeneral, Trygve Lie]
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A.
Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
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B.
J. Erik Jonsson
J. Erik Jonsson was an American businessman, co-founder of Texas Instruments, and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas and was recognized for his significant contributions to public welfare and science.
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C.
Henry A. Kissinger
Henry A. Kissinger was a German-born American diplomat and political scientist who served as U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, playing a central role in shaping Cold War foreign policy and détente.
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D.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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E.
Harold A. Wheeler
Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
- 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: Trygve Lie Target entity description: Trygve Lie was a Norwegian politician and diplomat who became the first Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving from 1946 to 1952.
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A.
Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
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B.
J. Erik Jonsson
J. Erik Jonsson was an American businessman, co-founder of Texas Instruments, and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas and was recognized for his significant contributions to public welfare and science.
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C.
Henry A. Kissinger
Henry A. Kissinger was a German-born American diplomat and political scientist who served as U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, playing a central role in shaping Cold War foreign policy and détente.
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D.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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E.
Harold A. Wheeler
Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Norwegian diplomat
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Norwegian politician ⓘ diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Norway ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1896-07-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1968-12-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Oslo ⓘ |
| employer |
Government of Norway
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United Nations ⓘ |
| endTime | 1952 ⓘ |
| familyName | Lie ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
foreign policy
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international relations ⓘ |
| givenName |
Trygve
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linked to:
Trygve Lie
|
| hasOccupation |
civil servant
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lawyer ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | first Secretary-General of the United Nations ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Norwegian ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Norwegian Labour Party ⓘ |
| movement | labour movement ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Norwegian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first Secretary-General of the United Nations
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shaping early UN peacekeeping and security policy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
leadership of the UN during the early Cold War
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role in founding the United Nations ⓘ |
| officeContested | Secretary-General of the United Nations ⓘ |
| orderInOffice | 1 ⓘ |
| participantIn |
San Francisco Conference
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World War II diplomacy ⓘ founding of the United Nations ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Norway
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Oslo ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Norway
ⓘ
Oslo ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway
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Secretary-General of the United Nations ⓘ |
| religion | Lutheranism ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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Oslo ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startTime | 1946 ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
ⓘ
Oslo ⓘ |
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: Trygve Lie Description of subject: Trygve Lie was a Norwegian politician and diplomat who became the first Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving from 1946 to 1952.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Trygve Lie
linked to: Trygve Lie