Yongle
E1042233
Yongle was the era name of the third Ming dynasty emperor, Zhu Di, under whose rule China saw major territorial expansion, the construction of the Forbidden City, and the commissioning of the Yongle Encyclopedia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yongle canonical | 4 |
| Yongle Restoration | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13470125 — 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: Yongle Context triple: [Establishing Civil, successorEraName, Yongle]
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A.
Yongle Southern Canon
The Yongle Southern Canon is an early Ming dynasty woodblock-printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon, commissioned under the Yongle Emperor and notable for its historical and textual significance.
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B.
Tudigong
Tudigong is a widely venerated Chinese earth god and local tutelary deity associated with protecting land, villages, and community welfare.
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C.
Ming
Ming is the given name of Yao Ming, the retired Chinese basketball star and former NBA All-Star center for the Houston Rockets.
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D.
Yongli
Yongli was the era name of the last emperor of the Southern Ming dynasty, whose reign marked the final resistance of Ming loyalists against the Qing conquest in 17th-century China.
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E.
Yongle Northern Canon
The Yongle Northern Canon is a significant early Ming dynasty printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon, commissioned under the Yongle Emperor and notable for its historical and textual influence on East Asian Buddhism.
- 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: Yongle Target entity description: Yongle was the era name of the third Ming dynasty emperor, Zhu Di, under whose rule China saw major territorial expansion, the construction of the Forbidden City, and the commissioning of the Yongle Encyclopedia.
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A.
Yongle Southern Canon
The Yongle Southern Canon is an early Ming dynasty woodblock-printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon, commissioned under the Yongle Emperor and notable for its historical and textual significance.
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B.
Tudigong
Tudigong is a widely venerated Chinese earth god and local tutelary deity associated with protecting land, villages, and community welfare.
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C.
Ming
Ming is the given name of Yao Ming, the retired Chinese basketball star and former NBA All-Star center for the Houston Rockets.
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D.
Yongli
Yongli was the era name of the last emperor of the Southern Ming dynasty, whose reign marked the final resistance of Ming loyalists against the Qing conquest in 17th-century China.
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E.
Yongle Northern Canon
The Yongle Northern Canon is a significant early Ming dynasty printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon, commissioned under the Yongle Emperor and notable for its historical and textual influence on East Asian Buddhism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese reign era
ⓘ
era name ⓘ |
| associatedWithAdministration | reorganization of the Ming bureaucracy ⓘ |
| associatedWithBuilding | Forbidden City ⓘ |
| associatedWithCapitalMove | transfer of capital from Nanjing to Beijing ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
Ming territorial expansion
ⓘ
compilation of the Yongle Encyclopedia ⓘ construction of the Forbidden City ⓘ maritime expeditions of Zheng He ⓘ |
| associatedWithMilitaryCampaign |
annexation of Đại Ngu (Đại Việt/Vietnam)
ⓘ
campaigns against the Mongols ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson |
Fang Xiaoru
ⓘ
Yao Guangxiao ⓘ Zheng He ⓘ Zhu Di ⓘ
linked to:
Yongle Emperor
|
| associatedWithReligion |
Daoism
ⓘ
linked to:
Taoism
Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
| associatedWithWork | Yongle Encyclopedia ⓘ |
| calendarSystem | Chinese imperial era system ⓘ |
| capitalCity | Beijing ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| endTime | 1424 ⓘ |
| eraCode | 永樂 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Hongxi ⓘ |
| follows |
Jianwen
ⓘ
linked to:
Jianwen Emperor
|
| governmentType | imperial monarchy ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Yongle Emperor ⓘ |
| notableFor |
large state-sponsored encyclopedia
ⓘ
large-scale territorial expansion ⓘ major architectural projects ⓘ strengthening of central authority ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of imperial China
ⓘ
history of the Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| politicalEntity |
Ming Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
Ming dynasty
|
| predecessorEraUsedBy |
Emperor Jianwen
ⓘ
linked to:
Emperor Jianwen of Liang
|
| region | East Asia ⓘ |
| reignOf |
Emperor Chengzu of Ming
ⓘ
linked to:
Yongle Emperor
third Ming emperor ⓘ |
| religion | state Confucianism ⓘ |
| startTime | 1403 ⓘ |
| successorEraUsedBy | Emperor Hongxi ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 15th century ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Yongle Emperor
ⓘ
Zhu Di ⓘ
linked to:
Yongle Emperor
|
| usedInDynasty | Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Chinese characters ⓘ |
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: Yongle Description of subject: Yongle was the era name of the third Ming dynasty emperor, Zhu Di, under whose rule China saw major territorial expansion, the construction of the Forbidden City, and the commissioning of the Yongle Encyclopedia.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yongle