10 Heavenly Stems
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The 10 Heavenly Stems are an ancient East Asian cyclical system of ten elements used in combination with the 12 Earthly Branches to designate years, months, days, and hours in traditional calendars such as the Vietnamese one.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 10 Heavenly Stems canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15725856 — 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: 10 Heavenly Stems Context triple: [Vietnamese traditional calendar, usesCycle, 10 Heavenly Stems]
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A.
Yin & Yang
"Yin & Yang" is a track from the album "China," likely drawing on the traditional Chinese philosophical concept of dualistic balance and harmony.
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B.
I Ching
The I Ching, or "Book of Changes," is an ancient Chinese divination text and foundational work of Chinese philosophy that uses a system of hexagrams and trigrams to explore change, balance, and decision-making.
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C.
The Heavenly Kings
The Heavenly Kings is a 2006 Hong Kong mockumentary film that satirizes the Cantopop music industry by following a fictional boy band’s manufactured rise to fame.
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D.
Yijing
Yijing was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, and translator renowned for his extensive travels to India and Southeast Asia to study and transmit Buddhist teachings.
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E.
Yuanshi
Yuanshi was a Chinese imperial era name used during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty.
- 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: 10 Heavenly Stems Target entity description: The 10 Heavenly Stems are an ancient East Asian cyclical system of ten elements used in combination with the 12 Earthly Branches to designate years, months, days, and hours in traditional calendars such as the Vietnamese one.
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A.
Yin & Yang
"Yin & Yang" is a track from the album "China," likely drawing on the traditional Chinese philosophical concept of dualistic balance and harmony.
-
B.
I Ching
The I Ching, or "Book of Changes," is an ancient Chinese divination text and foundational work of Chinese philosophy that uses a system of hexagrams and trigrams to explore change, balance, and decision-making.
-
C.
The Heavenly Kings
The Heavenly Kings is a 2006 Hong Kong mockumentary film that satirizes the Cantopop music industry by following a fictional boy band’s manufactured rise to fame.
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D.
Yijing
Yijing was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, and translator renowned for his extensive travels to India and Southeast Asia to study and transmit Buddhist teachings.
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E.
Yuanshi
Yuanshi was a Chinese imperial era name used during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.