King Kaolie of Chu
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King Kaolie of Chu was a monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the late Warring States period, known for ruling in a time of intense interstate conflict before the Qin unification.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| King Kaolie of Chu canonical | 1 |
| 楚考烈王 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1625128 — 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: King Kaolie of Chu Context triple: [State of Chu, notableRuler, King Kaolie of Chu]
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A.
King Zhuang of Chu
King Zhuang of Chu was a prominent Spring and Autumn period monarch renowned for transforming Chu into one of the most powerful states in ancient China.
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B.
King Huai of Chu
King Huai of Chu was a Warring States–period monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Chu, remembered for his political struggles with the state of Qin and his eventual capture and death in Qin territory.
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C.
King of Anshan
King of Anshan was an early royal title held by Cyrus the Great as ruler of the ancient Elamite region of Anshan in southwestern Iran, preceding his founding of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
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D.
Lord Shang
Lord Shang was an influential Chinese statesman and legalist reformer of the Warring States period, best known for transforming the state of Qin into a highly centralized and powerful military state.
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E.
Wei Lihuang
Wei Lihuang was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general best known for his leadership of Chinese forces against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
- 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: King Kaolie of Chu Target entity description: King Kaolie of Chu was a monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the late Warring States period, known for ruling in a time of intense interstate conflict before the Qin unification.
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A.
King Zhuang of Chu
King Zhuang of Chu was a prominent Spring and Autumn period monarch renowned for transforming Chu into one of the most powerful states in ancient China.
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B.
King Huai of Chu
King Huai of Chu was a Warring States–period monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Chu, remembered for his political struggles with the state of Qin and his eventual capture and death in Qin territory.
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C.
King of Anshan
King of Anshan was an early royal title held by Cyrus the Great as ruler of the ancient Elamite region of Anshan in southwestern Iran, preceding his founding of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
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D.
Lord Shang
Lord Shang was an influential Chinese statesman and legalist reformer of the Warring States period, best known for transforming the state of Qin into a highly centralized and powerful military state.
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E.
Wei Lihuang
Wei Lihuang was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general best known for his leadership of Chinese forces against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Chu
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Warring States period ruler ⓘ historical figure ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | late Warring States power struggles ⓘ |
| capitalDuringReign | Shouchun ⓘ |
| chronologicalPosition | late ruler of the state of Chu ⓘ |
| conflictContext |
Interstate rivalry among the Seven Warring States
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Wars with the state of Qin ⓘ |
| country | State of Chu ⓘ |
| deathPlace | State of Chu ⓘ |
| dynasty | Chu ruling house ⓘ |
| era | Warring States period ⓘ |
| father |
King Xuan of Chu
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surface form:
King Kaoxuan of Chu
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| governmentForm | monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| knownFor |
reigning before Qin unification of China
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reigning during intense interstate conflict among Chinese states ⓘ ruling Chu during late Warring States period ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| nativeName |
King Kaolie of Chu
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
楚考烈王
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| politicalStatus | sovereign ruler ⓘ |
| posthumousName | Kaolie ⓘ |
| predecessor |
King Xuan of Chu
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surface form:
King Kaoxuan of Chu
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| preUnificationContext | reigned before Qin dynasty unified China ⓘ |
| region | Ancient China ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 238 BCE ⓘ |
| reignStart | 262 BCE ⓘ |
| successor | King You of Chu ⓘ |
| title | King of Chu ⓘ |
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: King Kaolie of Chu Description of subject: King Kaolie of Chu was a monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the late Warring States period, known for ruling in a time of intense interstate conflict before the Qin unification.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
楚考烈王