Ye Li
E505731
Ye Li is a retired Chinese women's basketball player best known as the wife of former NBA star Yao Ming.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ye Li canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4746613 — 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: Ye Li Context triple: [Yao Ming, spouse, Ye Li]
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A.
Lin Yurong
Lin Yurong is the original birth name of Lin Biao, a prominent Chinese Communist military leader and key figure in the Chinese Civil War and early People’s Republic of China.
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B.
Li Jingxi
Li Jingxi was a Chinese politician and statesman who briefly served as premier during the early years of the Republic of China.
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C.
Lei Yixin
Lei Yixin is a Chinese sculptor internationally known for creating the monumental statue of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Washington, D.C. memorial.
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D.
Ye Qun
Ye Qun was a prominent Chinese Communist political figure and military officer, best known for her influential role in party affairs during the Cultural Revolution and her involvement in the events surrounding the Lin Biao incident.
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E.
Li Jiayu
Li Jiayu was a Chinese military officer and general associated with the National Revolutionary Army during the Republican era.
- 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: Ye Li Target entity description: Ye Li is a retired Chinese women's basketball player best known as the wife of former NBA star Yao Ming.
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A.
Lin Yurong
Lin Yurong is the original birth name of Lin Biao, a prominent Chinese Communist military leader and key figure in the Chinese Civil War and early People’s Republic of China.
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B.
Li Jingxi
Li Jingxi was a Chinese politician and statesman who briefly served as premier during the early years of the Republic of China.
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C.
Lei Yixin
Lei Yixin is a Chinese sculptor internationally known for creating the monumental statue of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Washington, D.C. memorial.
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D.
Ye Qun
Ye Qun was a prominent Chinese Communist political figure and military officer, best known for her influential role in party affairs during the Cultural Revolution and her involvement in the events surrounding the Lin Biao incident.
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E.
Li Jiayu
Li Jiayu was a Chinese military officer and general associated with the National Revolutionary Army during the Republican era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball player
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| competitionClass | women's basketball ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Asia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Shanghai University of Sport ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChild | Yao Qinlei ⓘ |
| height | 1.90 m ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| marriageDate | 2007-08-06 ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | China women's national basketball team ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a member of the China women's national basketball team
ⓘ
being the wife of former NBA player Yao Ming ⓘ |
| occupation |
basketball player
ⓘ
professional athlete ⓘ |
| participatedIn | 2004 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Shanghai ⓘ |
| playedFor | Shanghai women's basketball team ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | center ⓘ |
| represented | China ⓘ |
| residence | Shanghai ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| spouse |
Yao Ming
ⓘ
Ye Li ⓘ |
| status | retired ⓘ |
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: Ye Li Description of subject: Ye Li is a retired Chinese women's basketball player best known as the wife of former NBA star Yao Ming.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.