Jiang Qing
E15357
Jiang Qing was a Chinese Communist political figure and former actress best known as Mao Zedong’s influential fourth wife and a leading member of the radical “Gang of Four” during the Cultural Revolution.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jiang Qing canonical | 22 |
| 江青 | 2 |
| Jiang Ching | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T87470 — 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: Jiang Qing Context triple: [Mao Zedong, spouse, Jiang Qing]
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A.
Yang Kaihui
Yang Kaihui was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist activist who was married to Mao Zedong and was executed for her political activities in 1930.
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B.
Lei Yixin
Lei Yixin is a Chinese sculptor internationally known for creating the monumental statue of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Washington, D.C. memorial.
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C.
Peng Chun Chang
Peng Chun Chang was a Chinese diplomat, philosopher, and educator who played a key role in shaping the philosophical foundations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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D.
He Zizhen
He Zizhen was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist Party member best known as one of Mao Zedong’s wives and a participant in the Long March.
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E.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was the founding father of the People's Republic of China and the leader of the Chinese Communist Party whose political, military, and ideological leadership reshaped 20th-century China.
- 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: Jiang Qing Target entity description: Jiang Qing was a Chinese Communist political figure and former actress best known as Mao Zedong’s influential fourth wife and a leading member of the radical “Gang of Four” during the Cultural Revolution.
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A.
Yang Kaihui
Yang Kaihui was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist activist who was married to Mao Zedong and was executed for her political activities in 1930.
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B.
Lei Yixin
Lei Yixin is a Chinese sculptor internationally known for creating the monumental statue of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Washington, D.C. memorial.
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C.
Peng Chun Chang
Peng Chun Chang was a Chinese diplomat, philosopher, and educator who played a key role in shaping the philosophical foundations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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D.
He Zizhen
He Zizhen was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist Party member best known as one of Mao Zedong’s wives and a participant in the Long March.
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E.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was the founding father of the People's Republic of China and the leader of the Chinese Communist Party whose political, military, and ideological leadership reshaped 20th-century China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese politician
ⓘ
Communist ⓘ actress ⓘ human ⓘ political leader ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | Cultural Revolution ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Lan Ping
ⓘ
Li Yunhe ⓘ |
| birthName | Li Shumeng ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| child | Li Na ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
counter-revolutionary crimes
ⓘ
crimes during the Cultural Revolution ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
China
ⓘ
China ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of China
|
| dateOfBirth | 1914-03-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1991-05-14 ⓘ |
| endTimeOfMarriageWithMaoZedong | 1976 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| ideology |
Maoism
ⓘ
Marxism–Leninism ⓘ |
| influenced | Chinese cultural policy during the Cultural Revolution ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Mao Zedong ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | suicide by hanging ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Mao Zedong ⓘ |
| memberOf | Gang of Four ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Chinese Communist Party ⓘ |
| movement | Cultural Revolution ⓘ |
| name | Jiang Qing self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in the Gang of Four
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leading role in the Cultural Revolution ⓘ |
| notableWork | promotion of model revolutionary operas ⓘ |
| occupation |
film actress
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politician ⓘ theatre actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Tengchow, Shandong, China
ⓘ
surface form:
Zhucheng, Shandong, China
|
| placeOfDeath |
Beijing
ⓘ
surface form:
Beijing, China
|
| positionHeld |
Deputy Director of the Central Cultural Revolution Group
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Member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party ⓘ Member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party ⓘ |
| religion | atheism ⓘ |
| residence |
Beijing
ⓘ
surface form:
Beijing, China
Yan'an ⓘ
surface form:
Yan'an, Shaanxi, China
|
| sentence |
death sentence (later commuted)
ⓘ
life imprisonment ⓘ |
| spouse | Mao Zedong ⓘ |
| startTimeOfMarriageWithMaoZedong | 1938 ⓘ |
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: Jiang Qing Description of subject: Jiang Qing was a Chinese Communist political figure and former actress best known as Mao Zedong’s influential fourth wife and a leading member of the radical “Gang of Four” during the Cultural Revolution.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jiang Qing
this entity surface form:
Jiang Ching