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Queen Munmyeong

Queen Consort of Silla king Muyeol

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ626320 ↗
Source-derived summary

Queen Munmyeong (Korean: 문명왕후; Hanja: 文明王后; d. 681) was a Korean queen consort. She was the spouse of King Muyeol of Silla.

Issue

King Munmu of Silla (626 – 681)

Kim Inmun (김인문; 金仁問; 629 – 694)

Lady Jiso (지소부인; 智炤夫人)

In popular culture

Portrayed by Lina in the 2012 KBS TV series Dream of the Emperor

Portrayed by Shin Yu Ju in the 2017 KBS TV series Chronicles of Korea

Notes

References

Lee, Soyoung; Leidy, Denise Patry (2013). Silla: Korea's Golden Kingdom. [S.l.]: Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 21.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Queen Munmyeong” is queen Consort of Silla king Muyeol. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Queen, Munmyeong and Consort, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2017, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Queen, Munmyeong and Consort is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “queen Consort of Silla king Muyeol” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q626320. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012, 2017 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Queen Munmyeong” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.