Dongxuan bu
E542488
Dongxuan bu is one of the principal divisions of the Daoist Canon, organizing a large body of Daoist scriptures and texts within the Daozang.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dongxuan bu canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5680167 — 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: Dongxuan bu Context triple: [Daozang, hasPart, Dongxuan bu]
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A.
Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
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B.
Foxiangge
Foxiangge is the Tower of Buddhist Incense, a prominent multi-story pavilion and iconic landmark within Beijing’s Summer Palace complex.
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C.
Shitou Xiqian
Shitou Xiqian was an influential 8th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) master, renowned for his poetic teachings and as a key figure in the development of the Caodong/Sōtō Zen lineage.
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D.
Dong
The Dong are an ethnic minority group in China, known for their distinctive wooden architecture, polyphonic folk singing, and concentration in the mountainous regions of southern China, including Guizhou Province.
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E.
Daochuo
Daochuo was a prominent Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar whose writings and teachings greatly shaped the development of Pure Land Buddhism.
- 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: Dongxuan bu Target entity description: Dongxuan bu is one of the principal divisions of the Daoist Canon, organizing a large body of Daoist scriptures and texts within the Daozang.
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A.
Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
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B.
Foxiangge
Foxiangge is the Tower of Buddhist Incense, a prominent multi-story pavilion and iconic landmark within Beijing’s Summer Palace complex.
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C.
Shitou Xiqian
Shitou Xiqian was an influential 8th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) master, renowned for his poetic teachings and as a key figure in the development of the Caodong/Sōtō Zen lineage.
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D.
Dong
The Dong are an ethnic minority group in China, known for their distinctive wooden architecture, polyphonic folk singing, and concentration in the mountainous regions of southern China, including Guizhou Province.
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E.
Daochuo
Daochuo was a prominent Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar whose writings and teachings greatly shaped the development of Pure Land Buddhism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Daoist textual category
ⓘ
division of the Daoist Canon ⓘ section of the Daozang ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Daoist doctrinal writings
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Daoist liturgy ⓘ Daoist ritual texts ⓘ |
| hasRole |
classification unit for Daoist texts
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organizing body of Daoist scriptures ⓘ |
| hasScope |
large body of Daoist scriptures
ⓘ
large body of Daoist texts ⓘ |
| isOneOf | principal divisions of the Daoist Canon ⓘ |
| isPrincipalDivisionOf | Daozang ⓘ |
| languageContext | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| partOf |
Daoist Canon
ⓘ
linked to:
Daozang
Daozang ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Daoism
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linked to:
Taoism
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| scripturalCollectionType | canonical division ⓘ |
| transliterationSystem | Hanyu Pinyin ⓘ |
| usedIn | Daoist scriptural organization ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Chinese characters ⓘ |
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: Dongxuan bu Description of subject: Dongxuan bu is one of the principal divisions of the Daoist Canon, organizing a large body of Daoist scriptures and texts within the Daozang.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.