He Yan
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Chinese philosopher
Confucian commentator
Neo-Daoist thinker
Wei dynasty person
Xuanxue scholar
scholar-official
He Yan was a prominent third-century Chinese philosopher and scholar-official of the Wei dynasty, best known as a leading figure of Xuanxue (Neo-Daoism) and for his influential commentarial work on the Confucian classics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| He Yan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5232923 — 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: He Yan Context triple: [Analects, commentedOnBy, He Yan]
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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.
Wang Yeping
Wang Yeping is the wife of former Chinese paramount leader and Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin.
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C.
Luo Peijin
Luo Peijin was a Chinese military officer and notable graduate of the Yunnan Military Academy who played a role in early 20th-century Chinese military and political affairs.
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D.
Yang Yuehua
Yang Yuehua is a Chinese individual known primarily for being the sibling of former professional tennis star Li Na.
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E.
Li Xiannian
Li Xiannian was a prominent Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician who served as President of the People’s Republic of China from 1983 to 1988.
- 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: He Yan Target entity description: He Yan was a prominent third-century Chinese philosopher and scholar-official of the Wei dynasty, best known as a leading figure of Xuanxue (Neo-Daoism) and for his influential commentarial work on the Confucian classics.
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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.
Wang Yeping
Wang Yeping is the wife of former Chinese paramount leader and Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin.
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C.
Luo Peijin
Luo Peijin was a Chinese military officer and notable graduate of the Yunnan Military Academy who played a role in early 20th-century Chinese military and political affairs.
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D.
Yang Yuehua
Yang Yuehua is a Chinese individual known primarily for being the sibling of former professional tennis star Li Na.
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E.
Li Xiannian
Li Xiannian was a prominent Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician who served as President of the People’s Republic of China from 1983 to 1988.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese philosopher
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Confucian commentator ⓘ Neo-Daoist thinker ⓘ Wei dynasty person ⓘ Xuanxue scholar ⓘ scholar-official ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Cao Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| dynasty | Wei dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Three Kingdoms period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Chinese philosophy
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Confucian classics NERFINISHED ⓘ classical Chinese philology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
exegetical writing
ⓘ
philosophical commentary ⓘ |
| influenced |
Xuanxue movement
NERFINISHED
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later Confucian scholarship ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Confucius
NERFINISHED
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Laozi NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhuangzi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influential commentary on the Analects
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leading figure of Xuanxue ⓘ synthesizing Confucianism and Daoism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Classical Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
Neo-Daoism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Xuanxue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Collected Explanations of the Analects
NERFINISHED
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Commentary on the Analects NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
government official
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philosopher ⓘ scholar ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
Confucianism
NERFINISHED
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Daoism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Luoyang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
research on Wei-Jin metaphysics
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studies in Neo-Daoism ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 3rd century ⓘ |
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: He Yan Description of subject: He Yan was a prominent third-century Chinese philosopher and scholar-official of the Wei dynasty, best known as a leading figure of Xuanxue (Neo-Daoism) and for his influential commentarial work on the Confucian classics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.