Tianbao
E424775
Tianbao was an era name used during the Northern Qi dynasty in imperial China to designate a specific reign period.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tianbao (Northern Qi era) | 3 |
| Tianbao canonical | 2 |
| 天寶 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4256740 — 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: Tianbao Context triple: [Northern Qi dynasty, hasEraName, Tianbao]
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A.
Sanbao
Sanbao, better known in the West as Zheng He, was a famed 15th-century Chinese admiral and explorer who led the Ming dynasty’s great maritime expeditions across the Indian Ocean.
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B.
Qibao
Qibao is an ancient water town and popular tourist area in Shanghai, known for its historic streets, canals, and traditional architecture.
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C.
Yingtian
Yingtian was an important early Ming dynasty capital city, historically centered around present-day Nanjing in China.
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D.
Zhenjin
Zhenjin was the designated heir and favored son of Kublai Khan, known for his Confucian education and role in the early Yuan dynasty’s administration before his premature death.
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E.
Guguan
Guguan is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Northern Mariana Islands chain in the western Pacific Ocean.
- 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: Tianbao Target entity description: Tianbao was an era name used during the Northern Qi dynasty in imperial China to designate a specific reign period.
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A.
Sanbao
Sanbao, better known in the West as Zheng He, was a famed 15th-century Chinese admiral and explorer who led the Ming dynasty’s great maritime expeditions across the Indian Ocean.
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B.
Qibao
Qibao is an ancient water town and popular tourist area in Shanghai, known for its historic streets, canals, and traditional architecture.
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C.
Yingtian
Yingtian was an important early Ming dynasty capital city, historically centered around present-day Nanjing in China.
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D.
Zhenjin
Zhenjin was the designated heir and favored son of Kublai Khan, known for his Confucian education and role in the early Yuan dynasty’s administration before his premature death.
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E.
Guguan
Guguan is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Northern Mariana Islands chain in the western Pacific Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese era name
ⓘ
era name ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Northern Qi
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Qi dynasty
|
| associatedWithDynasty | Northern Qi dynasty ⓘ |
| calendar | Chinese calendar ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| endTime | 559 ⓘ |
| follows | Wuding ⓘ |
| hasType | reign motto ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| partOf | system of Chinese imperial era names ⓘ |
| precedes | Ganlu ⓘ |
| startTime | 550 ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 6th century ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Emperor Gao Yang of Northern Qi
ⓘ
linked to:
Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi
Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi ⓘ |
| usedFor | designation of reign period ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Northern Qi dynasty
ⓘ
imperial China ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Chinese characters ⓘ |
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: Tianbao Description of subject: Tianbao was an era name used during the Northern Qi dynasty in imperial China to designate a specific reign period.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tianbao
linked to: Tianbao