{"entity":"tencent","id":"ent_tencent","name":"Tencent","predicate":"founder","label":"founder","page":"https://asof.is/record/tencent/founder","as_of":"2026-11-02","summary":"As of November 2, 2026, Tencent's founders on the AsOf record are Chen Yidan and Zeng Liqing, each a claim of its own with its date, from 4 sources in all. The record holds 2 claims on Tencent's founder, 2 still open and 0 superseded, each dated and sourced; a replaced value is closed with an end date, never deleted.","current":["clm_334EDE1ECD2F","clm_E8B044FA4C46"],"latest_period":null,"claims":[{"id":"clm_334EDE1ECD2F","value":"Chen Yidan","valid_from":null,"undated":true,"valid_to":null,"published":"2018-02-07","recorded":"2026-11-01","confidence":0.8,"status":"valid","assertable":true,"superseded_by":null,"sources":[{"url":"https://www.ourchinastory.com/en/13376/Tencent-was-founded-in-Shenzhen","tier":"secondary","publisher":"ourchinastory.com","published_at":"2025-11-10T00:00:00+00:00"},{"url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q860580","tier":"secondary","publisher":"Wikidata","published_at":null},{"url":"https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/2/7/tencent-cofounder-visits/","tier":"secondary","publisher":"thecrimson.com","published_at":"2018-02-07T00:00:00+00:00"}],"evidence":{"by":"page-read","on":"2026-11-01","quote":"Charles Chen Yidan, co-founder of Tencent—a Chinese investment holding company—visited the Harvard Graduate School of Education this week","url":"https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/2/7/tencent-cofounder-visits/"}},{"id":"clm_E8B044FA4C46","value":"Zeng Liqing","valid_from":null,"undated":true,"valid_to":null,"published":"2025-11-10","recorded":"2026-11-01","confidence":0.8,"status":"valid","assertable":true,"superseded_by":null,"sources":[{"url":"https://www.ourchinastory.com/en/13376/China's-Tencent-was-founded-in-Shenzhen","tier":"secondary","publisher":"ourchinastory.com","published_at":"2025-11-10T00:00:00+00:00"},{"url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q860580","tier":"secondary","publisher":"Wikidata","published_at":null},{"url":"https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat7/sub44/entry-8309.html","tier":"secondary","publisher":"factsanddetails.com","published_at":null}],"evidence":{"by":"page-read","on":"2026-11-01","quote":"Tencent was founded by Pony Ma, Zhang Zhidong, Xu Chenye, Charles Chen and Zeng Liqing in November 1998 as Tencent Inc, incorporated in the Cayman Islands.","url":"https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat7/sub44/entry-8309.html"}}],"replaced":[],"faq":[{"question":"Who are Tencent's founders?","answer":"Chen Yidan (undated) and Zeng Liqing (undated), as the record asserts them on November 2, 2026."}],"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"}}}