Haicheng, Liaoning, Qing Empire
E258779
Haicheng, Liaoning, Qing Empire was a county-level city in northeastern China that served as the historical birthplace of influential warlord and nationalist leader Zhang Xueliang.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Haicheng, Liaoning, Qing Empire canonical | 3 |
| Haicheng, Liaoning, China | 2 |
| Haicheng, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2360783 — 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: Haicheng, Liaoning, Qing Empire Context triple: [Zhang Xueliang, birthPlace, Haicheng, Liaoning, Qing Empire]
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A.
Liaocheng, China
Liaocheng is a historic prefecture-level city in western Shandong Province, eastern China, known for its ancient canal-side old town and cultural heritage.
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B.
Shaoshan, Hunan, Qing Empire
Shaoshan, Hunan, Qing Empire was a rural village in late imperial China best known as the birthplace of Mao Zedong, who would become the founding leader of the People's Republic of China.
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C.
Kaixian, Sichuan, Qing Empire
Kaixian, Sichuan, Qing Empire was a county-level area in northeastern Sichuan Province during the late imperial period of China, known historically as the birthplace of prominent Chinese military leader Liu Bocheng.
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D.
Amoy, Fujian, Qing dynasty
Amoy, Fujian, during the Qing dynasty refers to the historical port city now known as Xiamen in southeastern China, an important center of maritime trade and foreign contact in that era.
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E.
Fengtian
Fengtian is the historical name of Shenyang, a major city in northeastern China that has long served as a political and economic center of the region.
- 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: Haicheng, Liaoning, Qing Empire Target entity description: Haicheng, Liaoning, Qing Empire was a county-level city in northeastern China that served as the historical birthplace of influential warlord and nationalist leader Zhang Xueliang.
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A.
Liaocheng, China
Liaocheng is a historic prefecture-level city in western Shandong Province, eastern China, known for its ancient canal-side old town and cultural heritage.
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B.
Shaoshan, Hunan, Qing Empire
Shaoshan, Hunan, Qing Empire was a rural village in late imperial China best known as the birthplace of Mao Zedong, who would become the founding leader of the People's Republic of China.
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C.
Kaixian, Sichuan, Qing Empire
Kaixian, Sichuan, Qing Empire was a county-level area in northeastern Sichuan Province during the late imperial period of China, known historically as the birthplace of prominent Chinese military leader Liu Bocheng.
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D.
Amoy, Fujian, Qing dynasty
Amoy, Fujian, during the Qing dynasty refers to the historical port city now known as Xiamen in southeastern China, an important center of maritime trade and foreign contact in that era.
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E.
Fengtian
Fengtian is the historical name of Shenyang, a major city in northeastern China that has long served as a political and economic center of the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
county-level city
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historical city ⓘ |
| administrativeLevel | county-level city ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Northeast China warlord era ⓘ |
| birthplaceOf | Zhang Xueliang ⓘ |
| country |
Qing dynasty
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surface form:
Qing Empire
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| ethnicContext |
predominantly Han Chinese population
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presence of Manchu population ⓘ |
| governedAs | county-level administrative unit ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | birthplace of Zhang Xueliang ⓘ |
| historicalJurisdiction | under the authority of the Qing central government ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Qing dynasty
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surface form:
late Qing dynasty
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| historicalStatus | county-level division of Qing China ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Liaodong Peninsula region
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Liaoning ⓘ Manchuria ⓘ Manchuria ⓘ
surface form:
northeastern China
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| modernSuccessor |
Haicheng, Liaoning, Qing Empire
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Haicheng, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China
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| notableResident | Zhang Xueliang ⓘ |
| partOf |
Qing dynasty
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surface form:
Qing Empire
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| presentDayCountry | China ⓘ |
| presentDayProvince | Liaoning ⓘ |
| regionType | urban area ⓘ |
| timeInExistence |
Qing dynasty
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surface form:
Qing dynasty era
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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: Haicheng, Liaoning, Qing Empire Description of subject: Haicheng, Liaoning, Qing Empire was a county-level city in northeastern China that served as the historical birthplace of influential warlord and nationalist leader Zhang Xueliang.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Zhang Xueliang
subject surface form:
Zhang Xueliang
this entity surface form:
Haicheng, Liaoning, China
Haicheng, Liaoning, Qing Empire
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modernSuccessor
→
Haicheng, Liaoning, Qing Empire
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Haicheng, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China
this entity surface form:
Haicheng, Liaoning, China