State of Jin
E190260
The State of Jin was a powerful feudal state of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China, prominent during the Spring and Autumn period for its military strength and complex aristocratic politics.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| State of Jin canonical | 4 |
| Jin (state) | 2 |
| state of Jin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1625120 — 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: State of Jin Context triple: [State of Chu, majorRival, State of Jin]
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A.
State of Yue
The State of Yue was an ancient Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and early Warring States periods, known for its maritime strength and legendary rivalry with the State of Wu.
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B.
State of Qi
The State of Qi was a powerful ancient Chinese kingdom during the Zhou dynasty, noted for its economic strength, political reforms, and cultural influence among the Warring States.
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C.
State of Han
The State of Han was a minor Warring States–period kingdom in ancient China, situated in central China and often overshadowed and pressured by more powerful neighbors such as Qin and Chu.
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D.
State of Chu
The State of Chu was a powerful and culturally influential ancient Chinese kingdom during the Zhou dynasty, known for its distinctive art, rituals, and major role in the Warring States period.
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E.
Shunga Empire
The Shunga Empire was an ancient Indian dynasty that succeeded the Maurya Empire and ruled much of northern and central India in the 2nd–1st centuries BCE.
- 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: State of Jin Target entity description: The State of Jin was a powerful feudal state of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China, prominent during the Spring and Autumn period for its military strength and complex aristocratic politics.
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A.
State of Yue
The State of Yue was an ancient Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and early Warring States periods, known for its maritime strength and legendary rivalry with the State of Wu.
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B.
State of Qi
The State of Qi was a powerful ancient Chinese kingdom during the Zhou dynasty, noted for its economic strength, political reforms, and cultural influence among the Warring States.
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C.
State of Han
The State of Han was a minor Warring States–period kingdom in ancient China, situated in central China and often overshadowed and pressured by more powerful neighbors such as Qin and Chu.
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D.
State of Chu
The State of Chu was a powerful and culturally influential ancient Chinese kingdom during the Zhou dynasty, known for its distinctive art, rituals, and major role in the Warring States period.
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E.
Shunga Empire
The Shunga Empire was an ancient Indian dynasty that succeeded the Maurya Empire and ruled much of northern and central India in the 2nd–1st centuries BCE.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spring and Autumn period hegemon
ⓘ
Zhou dynasty vassal state ⓘ ancient Chinese state ⓘ |
| aristocraticClan |
Fan clan (范氏)
ⓘ
Han clan ⓘ
surface form:
Han clan (韓氏)
Wei clan ⓘ
surface form:
Wei clan (魏氏)
Zhao clan ⓘ
surface form:
Zhao clan (趙氏)
Zhi clan (智氏) ⓘ Zhonghang clan (中行氏) ⓘ |
| capital |
Jiang (絳)
ⓘ
Xintian (新田) ⓘ |
| chronicleSource |
Guoyu
ⓘ
surface form:
Guoyu (Discourses of the States)
Records of the Grand Historian ⓘ Zuo Zhuan ⓘ |
| conventionalLongName | Jin ⓘ |
| currency |
knife money
ⓘ
spade money ⓘ |
| dissolvedInto |
State of Han
ⓘ
state of Wei ⓘ
surface form:
State of Wei
state of Zhao ⓘ
surface form:
State of Zhao
|
| endTime | 453 BCE ⓘ |
| era |
Spring and Autumn period
ⓘ
Western Zhou period ⓘ
surface form:
Western Zhou
early Warring States period ⓘ |
| founder |
King Cheng of Zhou
ⓘ
surface form:
King Cheng of Zhou (as enfeoffing ruler)
Tang Shu Yu (唐叔虞) ⓘ |
| governmentType |
feudal aristocratic state
ⓘ
hereditary monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | Partition of Jin ⓘ |
| knownFor |
complex aristocratic politics
ⓘ
military strength ⓘ struggle for hegemony in the Spring and Autumn period ⓘ |
| language | Old Chinese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
North China
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern China
Yellow River basin ⓘ |
| majorBattle |
Battle of An
ⓘ
Battle of Bi ⓘ Battle of Chengpu ⓘ |
| modernTerritoryIncludes |
Shanxi Province
ⓘ
parts of Henan Province ⓘ parts of Shaanxi Province ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Jin River (晉水) ⓘ |
| nativeName | 晉 ⓘ |
| notableRuler |
Duke Dao of Jin (晉悼公)
ⓘ
Duke Mu of Jin (晉穆侯) ⓘ Duke Wen of Jin (晉文公) ⓘ Duke Xian of Jin (晉獻公) ⓘ |
| partitionDate | 453 BCE ⓘ |
| partOf |
Zhou dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Zhou dynasty feudal system
|
| religion |
Chinese ancestral worship
ⓘ
early Chinese folk religion ⓘ |
| rival |
State of Chu
ⓘ
State of Qi ⓘ State of Qin ⓘ state of Zheng ⓘ
surface form:
State of Zheng
|
| startTime | 11th century BCE ⓘ |
| suzerain | King of Zhou ⓘ |
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: State of Jin Description of subject: The State of Jin was a powerful feudal state of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China, prominent during the Spring and Autumn period for its military strength and complex aristocratic politics.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
state of Jin
subject surface form:
State of Zhao
this entity surface form:
Jin (state)
this entity surface form:
Jin (state)
subject surface form:
State of Wei