Duan Qirui
E206587
Duan Qirui was a prominent Chinese warlord and politician of the early Republic era, serving multiple times as premier and a key figure in the Beiyang government.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Duan Qirui canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1830918 — 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: Duan Qirui Context triple: [Beiyang Army factions, leader, Duan Qirui]
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A.
Li Yuanhong
Li Yuanhong was a Chinese military leader and politician who became a key figure in the 1911 Revolution and later served as president of the Republic of China.
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B.
Yuan Shikai
Yuan Shikai was a powerful late Qing and early Republican Chinese military and political leader who became the first president of the Republic of China and briefly declared himself emperor.
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C.
Feng Yuxiang
Feng Yuxiang was a prominent Chinese warlord and nationalist general known for his shifting alliances, modernization efforts, and significant role in the early 20th-century Chinese military and political landscape.
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D.
Wu Peifu
Wu Peifu was a prominent Chinese warlord and military strategist of the early Republic era, known as a leading figure of the Zhili clique who opposed the Kuomintang’s unification efforts.
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E.
Zhang Zuolin
Zhang Zuolin was a powerful Chinese warlord who controlled Manchuria and led the Fengtian clique during the turbulent Warlord Era of the early 20th century.
- 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: Duan Qirui Target entity description: Duan Qirui was a prominent Chinese warlord and politician of the early Republic era, serving multiple times as premier and a key figure in the Beiyang government.
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A.
Li Yuanhong
Li Yuanhong was a Chinese military leader and politician who became a key figure in the 1911 Revolution and later served as president of the Republic of China.
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B.
Yuan Shikai
Yuan Shikai was a powerful late Qing and early Republican Chinese military and political leader who became the first president of the Republic of China and briefly declared himself emperor.
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C.
Feng Yuxiang
Feng Yuxiang was a prominent Chinese warlord and nationalist general known for his shifting alliances, modernization efforts, and significant role in the early 20th-century Chinese military and political landscape.
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D.
Wu Peifu
Wu Peifu was a prominent Chinese warlord and military strategist of the early Republic era, known as a leading figure of the Zhili clique who opposed the Kuomintang’s unification efforts.
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E.
Zhang Zuolin
Zhang Zuolin was a powerful Chinese warlord who controlled Manchuria and led the Fengtian clique during the turbulent Warlord Era of the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Beiyang clique leader
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Chinese politician ⓘ premier of the Republic of China ⓘ warlord ⓘ |
| allegiance | Beiyang Army ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1865-03-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Anhui
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Hefei ⓘ Qing dynasty ⓘ
surface form:
Qing Empire
|
| burialPlace | Shanghai ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Qing dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Qing Empire
Republic of China ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1936-11-02 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Republic of China
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Shanghai ⓘ |
| education |
German military training
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Tianjin Military Academy ⓘ |
| era | early Republic of China ⓘ |
| familyName | Duan ⓘ |
| givenName | Qirui ⓘ |
| government |
Beiyang Government
ⓘ
surface form:
Beiyang government
|
| knownFor |
dominant role in Beiyang politics
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leadership of the Anhui clique ⓘ warlord-era power struggles ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| name | Duan Qirui self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
opposed Yuan Shikai’s attempt to restore monarchy
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removed from office after the Constitutional Protection Movement ⓘ returned to power after the Beijing coup of 1924 ⓘ signed secret loans with Japan known as Nishihara Loans ⓘ supported China’s entry into World War I on the side of the Allies ⓘ |
| officeHeld |
Provisional President of the Republic of China
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surface form:
Acting President of the Republic of China
Minister of War of the Republic of China ⓘ Premier of the Republic of China ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Beiyang Government
ⓘ
surface form:
Beiyang government
World War I diplomacy ⓘ
surface form:
World War I diplomacy of China
Xinhai Revolution ⓘ |
| politicalFaction | Anhui clique ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| spouse | Zhang Peilan ⓘ |
| termAsActingPresidentEnd | 1926 ⓘ |
| termAsActingPresidentStart | 1924 ⓘ |
| termAsPremierEnd |
1918
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1926 ⓘ |
| termAsPremierStart |
1916
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1924 ⓘ |
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: Duan Qirui Description of subject: Duan Qirui was a prominent Chinese warlord and politician of the early Republic era, serving multiple times as premier and a key figure in the Beiyang government.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.