Cao E
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Cao E is a filial daughter from Eastern Han dynasty China who became a revered folk heroine and later deity, commemorated in legends, temples, and local customs connected to the Dragon Boat Festival.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cao E canonical | 2 |
| Cao E Niangniang | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5826597 — 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: Cao E Context triple: [Dragon Boat Festival, associatedWith, Cao E]
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A.
Gao Yin
Gao Yin was an emperor of the Northern Qi dynasty in ancient China, known for his brief and turbulent reign amid intense court intrigue and power struggles.
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B.
Zhu Youjiao
Zhu Youjiao, better known as the Tianqi Emperor, was a late Ming dynasty ruler whose short and troubled reign was dominated by the powerful eunuch Wei Zhongxian and marked by political corruption and decline.
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C.
Zhu Qiyu
Zhu Qiyu, better known as the Jingtai Emperor, was a Ming dynasty ruler who took the throne after his brother the Zhengtong Emperor was captured by the Mongols and whose short reign was marked by efforts to stabilize the dynasty amid military and political crises.
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D.
Mao Ling
Mao Ling is the mausoleum complex that serves as the imperial tomb of the Ming dynasty Chenghua Emperor in China.
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E.
Dai Anlan
Dai Anlan was a prominent Chinese Nationalist general best known for leading the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma during World War II, where he played a key role in early battles against Japanese forces.
- 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: Cao E Target entity description: Cao E is a filial daughter from Eastern Han dynasty China who became a revered folk heroine and later deity, commemorated in legends, temples, and local customs connected to the Dragon Boat Festival.
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A.
Gao Yin
Gao Yin was an emperor of the Northern Qi dynasty in ancient China, known for his brief and turbulent reign amid intense court intrigue and power struggles.
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B.
Zhu Youjiao
Zhu Youjiao, better known as the Tianqi Emperor, was a late Ming dynasty ruler whose short and troubled reign was dominated by the powerful eunuch Wei Zhongxian and marked by political corruption and decline.
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C.
Zhu Qiyu
Zhu Qiyu, better known as the Jingtai Emperor, was a Ming dynasty ruler who took the throne after his brother the Zhengtong Emperor was captured by the Mongols and whose short reign was marked by efforts to stabilize the dynasty amid military and political crises.
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D.
Mao Ling
Mao Ling is the mausoleum complex that serves as the imperial tomb of the Ming dynasty Chenghua Emperor in China.
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E.
Dai Anlan
Dai Anlan was a prominent Chinese Nationalist general best known for leading the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma during World War II, where he played a key role in early battles against Japanese forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese legendary figure
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deity ⓘ filial daughter ⓘ folk heroine ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Cao’e River
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Shengzhou, Zhejiang ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
local customs in eastern Zhejiang
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river worship ⓘ |
| associatedWithFestival | Dragon Boat Festival ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
local festivals
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ritual sacrifices ⓘ stele inscriptions ⓘ temples ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn |
Chinese folk religion
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local gazetteers ⓘ popular legends ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalRole |
local tutelary spirit
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model of filial piety ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
example in didactic texts on filial piety
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symbol of female virtue in Chinese tradition ⓘ |
| deathCause | drowning ⓘ |
| deathManner | self-sacrifice ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Eastern Han dynasty
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linked to:
Han dynasty
|
| familyRelation | daughter of Cao Xu (in legend) ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasLegendType | filial piety martyrdom legend ⓘ |
| hasTemple | Cao E Temple ⓘ |
| honorificTitle |
Cao E Niangniang
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linked to:
Cao E
Shengnü (holy maiden) ⓘ |
| influenced | local Dragon Boat Festival practices ⓘ |
| knownFor | sacrificing her life to search for her drowned father ⓘ |
| linkedConcept |
local cult of female deities
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river deification ⓘ xiao (filial piety) ⓘ |
| memorialType |
stele
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temple inscription ⓘ |
| religion |
Chinese folk religion
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Taoism (local cult context) ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 2nd century CE (traditional dating) ⓘ |
| veneratedAs |
local protective deity
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river goddess ⓘ |
| virtue | filial piety ⓘ |
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: Cao E Description of subject: Cao E is a filial daughter from Eastern Han dynasty China who became a revered folk heroine and later deity, commemorated in legends, temples, and local customs connected to the Dragon Boat Festival.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cao E