Yulin
E433638
Yulin is a prefecture-level city in southeastern China known for its role as a regional commercial hub and for its controversial annual dog meat festival.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yulin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4299598 — 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: Yulin Context triple: [Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, containsCity, Yulin]
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A.
Yulin
Yulin is a prefecture-level city in northern China known for its coal resources and location on the Loess Plateau near the border with Inner Mongolia.
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B.
Baoji
Baoji is a major industrial and transportation hub city in western Shaanxi Province, China, known for its manufacturing base and historical sites.
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C.
Jianyang
Jianyang is a county-level city in northern Fujian Province, China, known for its historical role in tea production and its location along the Min River.
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D.
Yuncheng
Yuncheng is a major city in southern Shanxi Province, China, known for its historical sites and role as a regional transportation and economic hub.
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E.
Lüliang
Lüliang is a prefecture-level city in western Shanxi Province, China, known for its mountainous terrain and significant coal and energy resources.
- 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: Yulin Target entity description: Yulin is a prefecture-level city in southeastern China known for its role as a regional commercial hub and for its controversial annual dog meat festival.
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A.
Yulin
Yulin is a prefecture-level city in northern China known for its coal resources and location on the Loess Plateau near the border with Inner Mongolia.
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B.
Baoji
Baoji is a major industrial and transportation hub city in western Shaanxi Province, China, known for its manufacturing base and historical sites.
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C.
Jianyang
Jianyang is a county-level city in northern Fujian Province, China, known for its historical role in tea production and its location along the Min River.
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D.
Yuncheng
Yuncheng is a major city in southern Shanxi Province, China, known for its historical sites and role as a regional transportation and economic hub.
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E.
Lüliang
Lüliang is a prefecture-level city in western Shanxi Province, China, known for its mountainous terrain and significant coal and energy resources.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
festival
ⓘ
prefecture-level city ⓘ |
| administrativeLevel | prefecture-level ⓘ |
| climate | subtropical monsoon climate ⓘ |
| controversy |
animal rights protests
ⓘ
animal welfare concerns ⓘ dog meat trade ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| economy |
agriculture
ⓘ
commerce ⓘ light industry ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| governingBody | Yulin Municipal People's Government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFestival | Yulin Dog Meat Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubdivision |
Beiliu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beiliu City NERFINISHED ⓘ Bobai County NERFINISHED ⓘ Fumian District NERFINISHED ⓘ Luchuan County NERFINISHED ⓘ Rong County NERFINISHED ⓘ Xingye County NERFINISHED ⓘ Yuzhou District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldIn | Yulin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Yulin Dog Meat Festival
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
dog meat consumption ⓘ lychee and dog meat festival ⓘ |
| language |
Mandarin Chinese
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Zhuang language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southeastern Guangxi ⓘ southern China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Beibu Gulf economic zone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guangdong Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Guangxi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
China ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of China
|
| regionType | urban and rural mixed ⓘ |
| role | regional commercial hub ⓘ |
| timeZone | China Standard Time ⓘ |
| transport |
connected by highways to Nanning
ⓘ
connected by railways to major Guangxi cities ⓘ |
| typicalDate | around summer solstice ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +8 ⓘ |
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: Yulin Description of subject: Yulin is a prefecture-level city in southeastern China known for its role as a regional commercial hub and for its controversial annual dog meat festival.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region