Cao Cao
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Cao Cao was a powerful warlord, statesman, and poet who laid the foundations for the state of Cao Wei during the late Eastern Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms period in China.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cao Cao canonical | 127 |
| Cao Cao, King of Wei | 1 |
| Cao Cao, warlord of the late Eastern Han dynasty | 1 |
| 曹操 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1917352 — 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: Cao Cao Context triple: [Jingzhou, associatedWith, Cao Cao]
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A.
Cao Wei
Cao Wei was a powerful Chinese state founded by the Cao family that ruled northern China during the Three Kingdoms period following the fall of the Han dynasty.
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B.
Sun Liang
Sun Liang was a young emperor of Eastern Wu during China’s Three Kingdoms period, whose short and turbulent reign was dominated by powerful regents.
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C.
Deng Ai
Deng Ai was a prominent Shu-Han–born general of the state of Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms era, best known for his bold campaign that led to the conquest of Shu.
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D.
Liu Bei
Liu Bei was a warlord and founding emperor of the Shu Han state, renowned for his role in the Three Kingdoms era of China and his later romanticized portrayal as a virtuous, benevolent leader.
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E.
Ma Biao
Ma Biao was a prominent Chinese Muslim general of the National Revolutionary Army who played key roles in several major campaigns during the Republican era.
- 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: Cao Cao Target entity description: Cao Cao was a powerful warlord, statesman, and poet who laid the foundations for the state of Cao Wei during the late Eastern Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms period in China.
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A.
Cao Wei
Cao Wei was a powerful Chinese state founded by the Cao family that ruled northern China during the Three Kingdoms period following the fall of the Han dynasty.
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B.
Sun Liang
Sun Liang was a young emperor of Eastern Wu during China’s Three Kingdoms period, whose short and turbulent reign was dominated by powerful regents.
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C.
Deng Ai
Deng Ai was a prominent Shu-Han–born general of the state of Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms era, best known for his bold campaign that led to the conquest of Shu.
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D.
Liu Bei
Liu Bei was a warlord and founding emperor of the Shu Han state, renowned for his role in the Three Kingdoms era of China and his later romanticized portrayal as a virtuous, benevolent leader.
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E.
Ma Biao
Ma Biao was a prominent Chinese Muslim general of the National Revolutionary Army who played key roles in several major campaigns during the Republican era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Cao Cao Description of subject: Cao Cao was a powerful warlord, statesman, and poet who laid the foundations for the state of Cao Wei during the late Eastern Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms period in China.
Referenced by (130)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.