Emperor Yang of Sui
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Emperor Yang of Sui was the second and last emperor of China’s Sui dynasty, known for ambitious projects like the Grand Canal and costly military campaigns that contributed to the dynasty’s rapid collapse.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Emperor Yang of Sui canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4628395 — 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: Emperor Yang of Sui Context triple: [Sui dynasty, notableRuler, Emperor Yang of Sui]
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Emperor Wen of Sui
Emperor Wen of Sui was the first emperor of China’s Sui dynasty, known for reunifying the country after centuries of division and implementing major political and economic reforms.
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B.
Emperor Gong of Sui
Emperor Gong of Sui was the final ruler of China’s short-lived Sui dynasty, whose brief and powerless reign ended with the dynasty’s collapse and the rise of the Tang.
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C.
Emperor Shaotian
Emperor Shaotian is the posthumous temple name given to the Yongli Emperor, the last sovereign of the Southern Ming dynasty who resisted the Qing conquest in 17th-century China.
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D.
Emperor Ai of Tang
Emperor Ai of Tang was the last emperor of the Tang dynasty, whose brief and powerless reign ended with the dynasty’s collapse in 907.
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E.
Emperor Su
Emperor Su is the posthumous temple name of the Longqing Emperor, a Ming dynasty ruler known for easing some of his predecessor’s harsh policies and briefly revitalizing the Chinese empire in the 16th century.
- 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: Emperor Yang of Sui Target entity description: Emperor Yang of Sui was the second and last emperor of China’s Sui dynasty, known for ambitious projects like the Grand Canal and costly military campaigns that contributed to the dynasty’s rapid collapse.
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A.
Emperor Wen of Sui
Emperor Wen of Sui was the first emperor of China’s Sui dynasty, known for reunifying the country after centuries of division and implementing major political and economic reforms.
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B.
Emperor Gong of Sui
Emperor Gong of Sui was the final ruler of China’s short-lived Sui dynasty, whose brief and powerless reign ended with the dynasty’s collapse and the rise of the Tang.
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C.
Emperor Shaotian
Emperor Shaotian is the posthumous temple name given to the Yongli Emperor, the last sovereign of the Southern Ming dynasty who resisted the Qing conquest in 17th-century China.
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D.
Emperor Ai of Tang
Emperor Ai of Tang was the last emperor of the Tang dynasty, whose brief and powerless reign ended with the dynasty’s collapse in 907.
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E.
Emperor Su
Emperor Su is the posthumous temple name of the Longqing Emperor, a Ming dynasty ruler known for easing some of his predecessor’s harsh policies and briefly revitalizing the Chinese empire in the 16th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sui dynasty emperor
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emperor of China ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| birthDate | 569 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Chang'an NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capitalEstablished | Luoyang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | assassination ⓘ |
| child |
Yang Gao
NERFINISHED
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Yang Jian NERFINISHED ⓘ Yang Zhao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| consequenceOfRule |
downfall of the Sui dynasty
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widespread rebellions ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Sui dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 618 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Jiangdu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Sui dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eraName | Daye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Yang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Emperor Wen of Sui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Guang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalReputation |
extravagant and wasteful
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tyrannical ruler ⓘ |
| house | House of Yang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy | Yuwen Huaji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Grand Canal project
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ambitious construction projects ⓘ contributing to the rapid collapse of the Sui dynasty ⓘ costly military campaigns against Goguryeo ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Goguryeo–Sui Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Empress Dugu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | construction of the Grand Canal ⓘ |
| personalName | Yang Guang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| policy |
heavy taxation
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large-scale conscription for public works ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Emperor of the Sui dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posthumousName | Emperor Yang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Emperor Wen of Sui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 618 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 604 ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
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Confucianism ⓘ |
| significantProject |
palace construction in Luoyang
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reconstruction and expansion of the Great Wall ⓘ |
| spouse | Empress Xiao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Emperor Gong of Sui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| templeName | Yangdi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Crown Prince of Sui
NERFINISHED
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Prince of Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Emperor Yang of Sui Description of subject: Emperor Yang of Sui was the second and last emperor of China’s Sui dynasty, known for ambitious projects like the Grand Canal and costly military campaigns that contributed to the dynasty’s rapid collapse.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Yang Guang