Kim Hock
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Kim Hock is a former Singaporean badminton player, better known as Yap Kim Hock, who achieved international success in men's doubles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kim Hock canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9517012 — 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: Kim Hock Context triple: [Yap Kim Hock, givenName, Kim Hock]
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A.
Kim Yong-rae
Kim Yong-rae is a South Korean politician who served as the mayor of Seoul during the period when the city hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics.
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B.
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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C.
Chang Sŏng-t’aek
Chang Sŏng-t’aek was a powerful North Korean politician and uncle by marriage to Kim Jong-un who was once considered the country’s second-most influential figure before his dramatic purge and execution in 2013.
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D.
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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E.
Kim Hong-il
Kim Hong-il is a South Korean politician and businessman best known as the eldest son of former President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kim Dae-jung.
- 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: Kim Hock Target entity description: Kim Hock is a former Singaporean badminton player, better known as Yap Kim Hock, who achieved international success in men's doubles.
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A.
Kim Yong-rae
Kim Yong-rae is a South Korean politician who served as the mayor of Seoul during the period when the city hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics.
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B.
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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C.
Chang Sŏng-t’aek
Chang Sŏng-t’aek was a powerful North Korean politician and uncle by marriage to Kim Jong-un who was once considered the country’s second-most influential figure before his dramatic purge and execution in 2013.
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D.
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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E.
Kim Hong-il
Kim Hong-il is a South Korean politician and businessman best known as the eldest son of former President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kim Dae-jung.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympian
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badminton player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| achieved | international success in men's doubles ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Kim Hock ⓘ |
| coached | Singapore national badminton team ⓘ |
| competedIn |
1992 Summer Olympics
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1996 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| continentRepresented | Asia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Singapore ⓘ |
| discipline | doubles specialist ⓘ |
| eraOfActivity | 1990s ⓘ |
| event | men's doubles badminton ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| governingBody | Badminton World Federation ⓘ |
| isRetired | true ⓘ |
| medalDiscipline | badminton men's doubles ⓘ |
| medalType | Olympic silver medal ⓘ |
| name | Yap Kim Hock ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of Singapore's most successful men's doubles badminton players ⓘ |
| occupation |
badminton coach
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badminton player ⓘ |
| partneredWith | Cheah Soon Kit ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Singapore ⓘ |
| representedCountry | Singapore ⓘ |
| role | national coach of Singapore badminton team ⓘ |
| specializesIn | men's doubles ⓘ |
| sport | badminton ⓘ |
| won | men's doubles silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
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: Kim Hock Description of subject: Kim Hock is a former Singaporean badminton player, better known as Yap Kim Hock, who achieved international success in men's doubles.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Kim Hock