Hsu Yung-chang
E20800
Hsu Yung-chang was a Chinese military representative who took part in formalizing Japan’s World War II surrender by signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hsu Yung-chang canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T127145 — 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: Hsu Yung-chang Context triple: [Japanese Instrument of Surrender, signedBy, Hsu Yung-chang]
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A.
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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B.
Zhang Fakui
Zhang Fakui was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general who played key roles in major early battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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C.
Joe Tsai
Joe Tsai is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman and co-founder of Alibaba Group who owns the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets.
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D.
Mao Anqing
Mao Anqing was the second son of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong, known for his work as a Russian-language translator and his relatively low political profile compared to his father.
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E.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
- 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: Hsu Yung-chang Target entity description: Hsu Yung-chang was a Chinese military representative who took part in formalizing Japan’s World War II surrender by signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender.
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A.
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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B.
Zhang Fakui
Zhang Fakui was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general who played key roles in major early battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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C.
Joe Tsai
Joe Tsai is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman and co-founder of Alibaba Group who owns the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets.
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D.
Mao Anqing
Mao Anqing was the second son of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong, known for his work as a Russian-language translator and his relatively low political profile compared to his father.
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E.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese military officer
ⓘ
World War II military personnel ⓘ person ⓘ |
| conflict |
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
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surface form:
Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II ⓘ |
| country | Republic of China ⓘ |
| era |
World War II
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surface form:
World War II era
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| eventParticipatedIn | Formal surrender of Japan in World War II ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | National Revolutionary Army ⓘ |
| name | Hsu Yung-chang self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Japanese Instrument of Surrender
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surface form:
Signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
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| opponent |
Japan
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surface form:
Empire of Japan
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| represented | Republic of China at the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender ⓘ |
| role | Chinese military representative at the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender ⓘ |
| signed | Japanese Instrument of Surrender ⓘ |
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: Hsu Yung-chang Description of subject: Hsu Yung-chang was a Chinese military representative who took part in formalizing Japan’s World War II surrender by signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.