Yan Zhengzai
E296459
Yan Zhengzai was the mother of the Chinese philosopher Confucius, traditionally regarded as a virtuous and devoted figure in early Confucian lore.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yan Zhengzai canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2312196 — 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: Yan Zhengzai Context triple: [Confucius, mother, Yan Zhengzai]
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A.
Ye Zhengxian
Ye Zhengxian is known primarily as a child of the prominent Chinese military leader Ye Ting.
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B.
Zhang Wenqi
Zhang Wenqi is a Chinese basketball player best known for having played professionally for the Shanghai Sharks in the Chinese Basketball Association.
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C.
Ye Zhengrong
Ye Zhengrong is one of the children of the prominent Chinese military leader and politician Ye Ting.
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D.
Chen Zhanxiang
Chen Zhanxiang was a Chinese architect best known for co-designing Beijing’s Monument to the People’s Heroes in Tiananmen Square.
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E.
Zhang Ding
Zhang Ding was a prominent Chinese artist and designer best known for creating iconic national symbols of the People’s Republic of China.
- 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: Yan Zhengzai Target entity description: Yan Zhengzai was the mother of the Chinese philosopher Confucius, traditionally regarded as a virtuous and devoted figure in early Confucian lore.
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A.
Ye Zhengxian
Ye Zhengxian is known primarily as a child of the prominent Chinese military leader Ye Ting.
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B.
Zhang Wenqi
Zhang Wenqi is a Chinese basketball player best known for having played professionally for the Shanghai Sharks in the Chinese Basketball Association.
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C.
Ye Zhengrong
Ye Zhengrong is one of the children of the prominent Chinese military leader and politician Ye Ting.
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D.
Chen Zhanxiang
Chen Zhanxiang was a Chinese architect best known for co-designing Beijing’s Monument to the People’s Heroes in Tiananmen Square.
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E.
Zhang Ding
Zhang Ding was a prominent Chinese artist and designer best known for creating iconic national symbols of the People’s Republic of China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese woman
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historical figure ⓘ mother of a philosopher ⓘ person ⓘ |
| child | Confucius ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Zhou dynasty China ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| describedAs |
devoted
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model mother in Confucian narratives ⓘ virtuous ⓘ |
| era | Spring and Autumn period ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| floruit | 6th century BCE ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Kong He ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | Confucian family ethics lore ⓘ |
| influenced | early life of Confucius ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being portrayed as a virtuous mother in Confucian tradition
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being the mother of Confucius ⓘ raising Confucius after the early death of his father ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Old Chinese ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | later Confucian biographical accounts of Confucius ⓘ |
| movement | early Confucian tradition ⓘ |
| name | Yan Zhengzai self-link ⓘ |
| notableChild | Confucius ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| partOf | Confucian hagiographic tradition ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Lu
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Qufu ⓘ |
| religion | Chinese folk religion ⓘ |
| spouse | Kong He ⓘ |
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: Yan Zhengzai Description of subject: Yan Zhengzai was the mother of the Chinese philosopher Confucius, traditionally regarded as a virtuous and devoted figure in early Confucian lore.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.