Tang Xianzu
E186743
Tang Xianzu was a renowned Ming dynasty playwright and dramatist best known for his romantic masterpiece "The Peony Pavilion."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tang Xianzu canonical | 20 |
| 汤显祖 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1653434 — 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: Tang Xianzu Context triple: [Ming dynasty, notablePerson, Tang Xianzu]
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A.
Tian Han
Tian Han was a prominent 20th-century Chinese playwright and poet best known for writing the lyrics to what became the national anthem of the People's Republic of China.
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B.
Yu Chengwan
Yu Chengwan was a Chinese military commander best known for leading Nationalist forces during the World War II-era Battle of Changde against the Imperial Japanese Army.
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C.
Qu Yuan
Qu Yuan was an ancient Chinese poet and statesman of the Warring States period, renowned for his patriotic verse and associated with the origins of the Dragon Boat Festival.
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D.
Song Shilun
Song Shilun was a prominent Chinese general of the People’s Volunteer Army during the Korean War, noted for leading Chinese forces in major campaigns against United Nations troops.
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E.
Nie Er
Nie Er was a Chinese composer best known for writing the music to "March of the Volunteers," which later became the national anthem of the People's Republic of 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: Tang Xianzu Target entity description: Tang Xianzu was a renowned Ming dynasty playwright and dramatist best known for his romantic masterpiece "The Peony Pavilion."
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A.
Tian Han
Tian Han was a prominent 20th-century Chinese playwright and poet best known for writing the lyrics to what became the national anthem of the People's Republic of China.
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B.
Yu Chengwan
Yu Chengwan was a Chinese military commander best known for leading Nationalist forces during the World War II-era Battle of Changde against the Imperial Japanese Army.
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C.
Qu Yuan
Qu Yuan was an ancient Chinese poet and statesman of the Warring States period, renowned for his patriotic verse and associated with the origins of the Dragon Boat Festival.
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D.
Song Shilun
Song Shilun was a prominent Chinese general of the People’s Volunteer Army during the Korean War, noted for leading Chinese forces in major campaigns against United Nations troops.
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E.
Nie Er
Nie Er was a Chinese composer best known for writing the music to "March of the Volunteers," which later became the national anthem of the People's Republic of China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ming dynasty person
ⓘ
dramatist ⓘ person ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | “Shakespeare of the East” ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
China
ⓘ
Jiangxi ⓘ
linked to:
Jiangxi Province
Linchuan ⓘ
linked to:
Ji'an
|
| birthYear | 1550 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Linchuan
ⓘ
linked to:
Ji'an
|
| deathYear | 1616 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Imperial examination system ⓘ |
| employer |
Ming government
ⓘ
linked to:
Ming dynasty
|
| era | Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| familyName | Tang ⓘ |
| floruit | late 16th century ⓘ |
| genre |
Chinese opera
ⓘ
chuanqi drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Xianzu ⓘ |
| influenced |
Chinese opera
ⓘ
later Chinese dramatists ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Confucianism ⓘ Daoism ⓘ
linked to:
Taoism
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | Chinese ⓘ |
| movement | Ming dynasty literature ⓘ |
| name | Tang Xianzu ⓘ |
| nativeName |
汤显祖
ⓘ
linked to:
Tang Xianzu
|
| notableWork |
Four Dreams of Linchuan
ⓘ
The Handan Dream ⓘ The Nanke Dream ⓘ
linked to:
The Handan Dream
The Peony Pavilion ⓘ The Peony Pavilion (Mudan Ting) ⓘ
linked to:
The Peony Pavilion
The Peony Pavilion: The Return of the Soul ⓘ
linked to:
The Peony Pavilion
The Purple Flute ⓘ The Purple Hairpin ⓘ |
| occupation |
dramatist
ⓘ
official ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| partOf | Four Dreams of Linchuan ⓘ |
| passedExam | jinshi degree ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
official in Guangdong
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official in Nanjing ⓘ official in Zhejiang ⓘ |
| workSubject |
dreams
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individual emotion versus social norms ⓘ romantic love ⓘ |
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: Tang Xianzu Description of subject: Tang Xianzu was a renowned Ming dynasty playwright and dramatist best known for his romantic masterpiece "The Peony Pavilion."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tang Xianzu
subject linked to:
“Shakespeare of the East”
subject linked to:
“Shakespeare of the East”
subject linked to:
“Shakespeare of the East”
subject linked to:
“Shakespeare of the East”
subject linked to:
“Shakespeare of the East”