Zhongyong
E504978
Zhongyong is a classical Confucian text that expounds the ideal of moral moderation, balance, and harmony as a central path to personal virtue and good governance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zhongyong canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5232994 — 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: Zhongyong Context triple: [Doctrine of the Mean, traditionalTitle, Zhongyong]
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A.
Xiao Zisheng
Xiao Zisheng was a Chinese educator, writer, and early associate of Mao Zedong who played a significant role in introducing Western ideas and promoting modern education in early 20th-century China.
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B.
Zhu Youyuan
Zhu Youyuan was a Ming dynasty prince whose posthumous elevation to emperor came only after his son, the Jiajing Emperor, ascended the throne and fought to honor him as an imperial ancestor.
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C.
Zhao Sheng
Zhao Sheng was a Chinese revolutionary associated with the Tongmenghui, the anti-Qing organization that helped pave the way for the 1911 Xinhai Revolution and the founding of the Republic of China.
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D.
Zhu Zaiji
Zhu Zaiji, better known as the Longqing Emperor, was a Ming dynasty ruler who briefly stabilized the empire and reopened trade after the tumultuous reign of his father, the Jiajing Emperor.
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E.
Xi Mingze
Xi Mingze is the only daughter of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan, known for maintaining a low public profile despite her prominent family background.
- 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: Zhongyong Target entity description: Zhongyong is a classical Confucian text that expounds the ideal of moral moderation, balance, and harmony as a central path to personal virtue and good governance.
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A.
Xiao Zisheng
Xiao Zisheng was a Chinese educator, writer, and early associate of Mao Zedong who played a significant role in introducing Western ideas and promoting modern education in early 20th-century China.
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B.
Zhu Youyuan
Zhu Youyuan was a Ming dynasty prince whose posthumous elevation to emperor came only after his son, the Jiajing Emperor, ascended the throne and fought to honor him as an imperial ancestor.
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C.
Zhao Sheng
Zhao Sheng was a Chinese revolutionary associated with the Tongmenghui, the anti-Qing organization that helped pave the way for the 1911 Xinhai Revolution and the founding of the Republic of China.
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D.
Zhu Zaiji
Zhu Zaiji, better known as the Longqing Emperor, was a Ming dynasty ruler who briefly stabilized the empire and reopened trade after the tumultuous reign of his father, the Jiajing Emperor.
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E.
Xi Mingze
Xi Mingze is the only daughter of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan, known for maintaining a low public profile despite her prominent family background.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese philosophical text
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Confucian classic ⓘ Four Books of Confucianism ⓘ |
| aimsAt |
good rulership
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personal moral perfection ⓘ social order ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
Heaven (Tian)
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linked to:
Heaven (Shangdi)
humaneness (ren) ⓘ ritual propriety (li) ⓘ the gentleman (junzi) ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
balance
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cosmic order ⓘ good governance ⓘ harmony ⓘ moral moderation ⓘ moral virtue ⓘ self-cultivation ⓘ the Mean ⓘ |
| commentedOnBy |
Cheng Yi
ⓘ
Zhu Xi ⓘ |
| emphasizesConcept |
equilibrium
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harmony between Heaven and humanity ⓘ sincerity ⓘ |
| genre | philosophical treatise ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTranslation |
The Doctrine of the Mean
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linked to:
Doctrine of the Mean
The Mean-in-Action ⓘ
linked to:
the Mean
|
| hasKeyIdea |
alignment of inner disposition and outer conduct
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following the central path between excess and deficiency ⓘ |
| hasLiteralMeaning | Doctrine of the Mean ⓘ |
| hasPinyin | Zhōngyōng ⓘ |
| hasStructure | prose chapters ⓘ |
| hasTitleInChinese | 中庸 ⓘ |
| includedIn | Liji ⓘ |
| influenced |
Neo-Confucianism
ⓘ
Zhu Xi ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| partOf | Four Books ⓘ |
| period | Warring States period ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | Confucianism ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Confucius ⓘ |
| studiedIn | East Asian Confucian education ⓘ |
| traditionallyAttributedTo |
Kong Ji
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Zisi ⓘ |
| usedAs | civil service examination text ⓘ |
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: Zhongyong Description of subject: Zhongyong is a classical Confucian text that expounds the ideal of moral moderation, balance, and harmony as a central path to personal virtue and good governance.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.