Qieyun
E541871
Qieyun is a 7th-century Chinese rhyme dictionary that systematically records the pronunciation of Chinese characters in Middle Chinese and became a foundational source for historical Chinese phonology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Qieyun canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5690541 — 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: Qieyun Context triple: [Middle Chinese, primarySource, Qieyun]
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A.
Yunmen Wenyan
Yunmen Wenyan was a renowned 10th-century Chinese Chan master and founder of the Yunmen school, celebrated for his terse, enigmatic teaching style and influential role in Zen koan literature.
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B.
Yunwen
Yunwen was the personal name of the Jianwen Emperor, a Ming dynasty ruler of China known for his short and turbulent reign and subsequent mysterious disappearance.
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C.
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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D.
Xue
Xue is a Chinese surname borne by various notable historical and contemporary figures.
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E.
Qiying
Qiying was a Qing dynasty statesman and diplomat who played a key role in negotiating several unequal treaties with Western powers in the mid-19th century.
- 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: Qieyun Target entity description: Qieyun is a 7th-century Chinese rhyme dictionary that systematically records the pronunciation of Chinese characters in Middle Chinese and became a foundational source for historical Chinese phonology.
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A.
Yunmen Wenyan
Yunmen Wenyan was a renowned 10th-century Chinese Chan master and founder of the Yunmen school, celebrated for his terse, enigmatic teaching style and influential role in Zen koan literature.
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B.
Yunwen
Yunwen was the personal name of the Jianwen Emperor, a Ming dynasty ruler of China known for his short and turbulent reign and subsequent mysterious disappearance.
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C.
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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D.
Xue
Xue is a Chinese surname borne by various notable historical and contemporary figures.
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E.
Qiying
Qiying was a Qing dynasty statesman and diplomat who played a key role in negotiating several unequal treaties with Western powers in the mid-19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese dictionary
ⓘ
historical linguistic source ⓘ rime dictionary ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
切韻
ⓘ
linked to:
Guangyun
|
| centuryOfCompilation | 7th century ⓘ |
| citedIn |
Guangyun preface
ⓘ
linked to:
Guangyun
Tang and Song philological works ⓘ |
| compiler |
Lu Fayan
ⓘ
陸法言 ⓘ |
| dateOfCompilation | 601 ⓘ |
| era | Sui dynasty ⓘ |
| field |
Chinese historical linguistics
ⓘ
lexicography ⓘ phonology ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
Song dynasty redaction
ⓘ
Wang Renxu edition ⓘ modern critical reconstructions ⓘ |
| hasPart | rime tables tradition (later derived) ⓘ |
| hasSurvivingForm |
fragments
ⓘ
later redactions and recensions ⓘ |
| hasToneCategories |
departing tone
ⓘ
entering tone ⓘ level tone ⓘ rising tone ⓘ |
| influenced |
Guangyun
ⓘ
Jiyun ⓘ Lidian ⓘ Zhongyuan Yinyun ⓘ later Chinese rhyme dictionaries ⓘ later rime tables such as Yunjing ⓘ traditional Chinese rhyme categories ⓘ |
| isBasisFor | reconstruction of Middle Chinese phonology ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| methodUsed | fanqie spelling system ⓘ |
| placeOfCompilation |
Sui dynasty China
ⓘ
linked to:
Sui dynasty
|
| purpose |
to provide a reference for correct rhyming in regulated verse
ⓘ
to standardize the reading pronunciations of Chinese characters ⓘ |
| records |
Middle Chinese pronunciations
ⓘ
fanqie spellings for Chinese characters ⓘ |
| structure |
characters grouped by tone
ⓘ
entries annotated with fanqie spellings ⓘ organized by rime groups ⓘ |
| subjectOfStudy | historical Chinese phonology ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | Cut Rhymes ⓘ |
| usedBy |
historical linguists
ⓘ
philologists ⓘ poets in the Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
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: Qieyun Description of subject: Qieyun is a 7th-century Chinese rhyme dictionary that systematically records the pronunciation of Chinese characters in Middle Chinese and became a foundational source for historical Chinese phonology.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.