Yangming
E521697
Yangming is the art name of Wang Yangming, a prominent Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher, statesman, and military leader known for his influential doctrine of the unity of knowledge and action.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yangming canonical | 2 |
| Yangmingzi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5449623 — 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: Yangming Context triple: [Wang Yangming, artName, Yangming]
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A.
Shen Dao
Shen Dao is the ceremonial spirit road leading to the Ming Tombs near Beijing, lined with stone statues and monuments that honor deceased emperors.
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B.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a late 19th-century Chinese ironclad battleship of the Beiyang Fleet that played a prominent role in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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C.
Zhenwu
Zhenwu is a powerful Taoist deity associated with the north, martial protection, and spiritual cultivation, especially revered in Chinese religious and martial traditions.
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D.
Wu Men
Wu Men, also known as the Meridian Gate, is the grand southern entrance and main ceremonial gate of Beijing’s Forbidden City.
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E.
San Min Chu-i
San Min Chu-i is the national anthem of the Republic of China, expressing the political philosophy of Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles of the People.
- 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: Yangming Target entity description: Yangming is the art name of Wang Yangming, a prominent Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher, statesman, and military leader known for his influential doctrine of the unity of knowledge and action.
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A.
Shen Dao
Shen Dao is the ceremonial spirit road leading to the Ming Tombs near Beijing, lined with stone statues and monuments that honor deceased emperors.
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B.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a late 19th-century Chinese ironclad battleship of the Beiyang Fleet that played a prominent role in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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C.
Zhenwu
Zhenwu is a powerful Taoist deity associated with the north, martial protection, and spiritual cultivation, especially revered in Chinese religious and martial traditions.
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D.
Wu Men
Wu Men, also known as the Meridian Gate, is the grand southern entrance and main ceremonial gate of Beijing’s Forbidden City.
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E.
San Min Chu-i
San Min Chu-i is the national anthem of the Republic of China, expressing the political philosophy of Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles of the People.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Neo-Confucian philosopher
ⓘ
art name ⓘ human ⓘ military leader ⓘ philosopher ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Wang Shouren
ⓘ
linked to:
Wang Yangming
Yangmingzi ⓘ
linked to:
Yangming
|
| artNameOf | Wang Yangming ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1472 ⓘ |
| coreConcept |
liangzhi (innate knowledge of the good)
ⓘ
zhi xing he yi (unity of knowledge and action) ⓘ
linked to:
Neo-Confucianism
|
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1529 ⓘ |
| developed |
Yangming school of mind
ⓘ
linked to:
Yangming school
|
| dynasty | Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| era |
Chinese philosophy
ⓘ
Ming dynasty philosophy ⓘ |
| familyName | Wang ⓘ |
| givenName | Shouren ⓘ |
| influenced |
Japanese Neo-Confucianism
ⓘ
linked to:
Japanese Confucianism
Korean Neo-Confucianism ⓘ
linked to:
Korean Confucianism
modern New Confucianism ⓘ
linked to:
Modern New Confucianism
|
| influencedBy |
Confucius
ⓘ
Mencius ⓘ Zhu Xi ⓘ |
| knownFor |
doctrine of innate moral knowledge
ⓘ
philosophy of mind ⓘ suppression of rebellions ⓘ |
| legacy |
founder of the Yangming school
ⓘ
major figure in Neo-Confucianism ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| movement | Neo-Confucianism ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
innate knowing
ⓘ
unity of knowledge and action ⓘ |
| officeHeld |
governor
ⓘ
official of the Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| philosophicalDiscipline |
epistemology
ⓘ
ethics ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | Confucianism ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Guizhou
ⓘ
linked to:
Guizhou Province
Jiangxi ⓘ
linked to:
Jiangxi Province
Zhejiang ⓘ
linked to:
Zhejiang Province
|
| schoolOfThought | Yangming school ⓘ |
| taughtAt | private academies ⓘ |
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: Yangming Description of subject: Yangming is the art name of Wang Yangming, a prominent Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher, statesman, and military leader known for his influential doctrine of the unity of knowledge and action.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.