{"entity":"samsung-electronics","id":"ent_samsung-electronics","name":"Samsung Electronics","predicate":"founder","label":"founder","page":"https://asof.is/record/samsung-electronics/founder","as_of":"2026-11-08","summary":"As of November 8, 2026, Samsung Electronics's founder on the AsOf record is Lee Byung-chul, undated on the record, from 2 primary sources (samsung.com and web.archive.org) and 2 further sources (quartr.com and corpdigest.com). The record holds 1 claim on Samsung Electronics's founder, 1 still open and 0 superseded, each dated and sourced; a replaced value is closed with an end date, never deleted.","current":["clm_0BE2EE169E36"],"latest_period":null,"claims":[{"id":"clm_0BE2EE169E36","value":"Lee Byung-chul","valid_from":null,"undated":true,"valid_to":null,"published":"2012-04-18","recorded":"2026-10-31","confidence":0.95,"status":"valid","assertable":true,"superseded_by":null,"sources":[{"url":"https://www.samsung.com/us/about-us/leadership-and-mission/heritage/","tier":"primary","publisher":"Samsung US","published_at":null},{"url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20718","tier":"secondary","publisher":"Wikidata","published_at":null},{"url":"https://quartr.com/insights/business-philosophy/lee-byung-chul-samsungs-visionary-founder","tier":"secondary","publisher":"quartr.com","published_at":null},{"url":"https://corpdigest.com/company/samsung/company-history","tier":"secondary","publisher":"corpdigest.com","published_at":null},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026id_/https://news.samsung.com/global/the-history-of-samsung-electronics-1-paving-a-new-path-19681970","tier":"primary","publisher":"Samsung Newsroom (Wayback Machine copy)","published_at":"2012-04-18T00:00:00+00:00"}],"evidence":{"by":"page-read","on":"2026-11-07","quote":"Lee Byung-chul founded Samsung in 1938 and led the company to become a global conglomerate, becoming a symbol of South Korea's resilience and progress.","url":"https://quartr.com/insights/business-philosophy/lee-byung-chul-samsungs-visionary-founder"}}],"replaced":[],"faq":[{"question":"What is Samsung Electronics's current founder?","answer":"Lee Byung-chul, undated on the record, from 2 primary sources (samsung.com and web.archive.org) and 2 further sources (quartr.com and corpdigest.com). The record asserts this claim as of November 8, 2026 (status valid, confidence 0.95)."}],"legend":{"dates":"valid_from: when the claim took effect (a period figure: the day its period closed). published: the earliest day a source on the record published it (a filing's filing date, a post's date; null when no source carries one). recorded: the day AsOf first held it. A figure can take effect weeks before it is published.","why_not":{},"checked_by":{"page-read":"its source page states the value and the date"}}}