Yuyao, Zhejiang, China
E521698
Yuyao, in Zhejiang Province, China, is a historic county-level city renowned as the birthplace of the influential Ming dynasty philosopher and statesman Wang Yangming.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yuyao, Zhejiang, China canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5449628 — 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: Yuyao, Zhejiang, China Context triple: [Wang Yangming, placeOfBirth, Yuyao, Zhejiang, China]
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Dongyang, Zhejiang, China
Dongyang is a county-level city in central Zhejiang Province, eastern China, known for its thriving private economy, woodcarving and architectural craftsmanship, and proximity to the manufacturing hub of Yiwu.
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B.
Xiangshan County, Zhejiang, China
Xiangshan County in Zhejiang, China is a coastal county known for its fishing industry, scenic seaside landscapes, and role as the birthplace of several notable Chinese politicians and cultural figures.
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C.
Haining
Haining is a county-level city in Zhejiang Province, China, known for its dramatic tidal bore on the Qiantang River and its textile industry.
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Jinyang
Jinyang is the historical name of the city now known as Taiyuan, a major urban and industrial center in northern China’s Shanxi province.
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E.
Wuzhen
Wuzhen is a historic water town in eastern China known for its ancient canals, traditional architecture, and cultural tourism.
- 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: Yuyao, Zhejiang, China Target entity description: Yuyao, in Zhejiang Province, China, is a historic county-level city renowned as the birthplace of the influential Ming dynasty philosopher and statesman Wang Yangming.
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A.
Dongyang, Zhejiang, China
Dongyang is a county-level city in central Zhejiang Province, eastern China, known for its thriving private economy, woodcarving and architectural craftsmanship, and proximity to the manufacturing hub of Yiwu.
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B.
Xiangshan County, Zhejiang, China
Xiangshan County in Zhejiang, China is a coastal county known for its fishing industry, scenic seaside landscapes, and role as the birthplace of several notable Chinese politicians and cultural figures.
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C.
Haining
Haining is a county-level city in Zhejiang Province, China, known for its dramatic tidal bore on the Qiantang River and its textile industry.
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D.
Jinyang
Jinyang is the historical name of the city now known as Taiyuan, a major urban and industrial center in northern China’s Shanxi province.
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E.
Wuzhen
Wuzhen is a historic water town in eastern China known for its ancient canals, traditional architecture, and cultural tourism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Yuyao, Zhejiang, China Description of subject: Yuyao, in Zhejiang Province, China, is a historic county-level city renowned as the birthplace of the influential Ming dynasty philosopher and statesman Wang Yangming.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.