Geling Yan
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Geling Yan is a Chinese-American novelist and screenwriter known for her emotionally powerful works that often explore the human impact of war, political upheaval, and social change in modern Chinese history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Geling Yan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5782868 — 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: Geling Yan Context triple: [The Criminal Lu Yanshi, author, Geling Yan]
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A.
Jun-Yan Zhu
Jun-Yan Zhu is a computer scientist and researcher known for his influential work in computer vision and generative models, particularly in image-to-image translation.
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B.
Yanluo Wang
Yanluo Wang is the Chinese deity who presides over the underworld and judges the souls of the dead.
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C.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
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D.
Xiaodong Chen
Xiaodong Chen is a prominent materials scientist and nanotechnology researcher who serves as editor-in-chief of the journal ACS Nano.
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E.
Yuhuai Wu
Yuhuai Wu is an AI researcher and entrepreneur known for his work on large language models and as a member of Elon Musk’s xAI team.
- 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: Geling Yan Target entity description: Geling Yan is a Chinese-American novelist and screenwriter known for her emotionally powerful works that often explore the human impact of war, political upheaval, and social change in modern Chinese history.
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A.
Jun-Yan Zhu
Jun-Yan Zhu is a computer scientist and researcher known for his influential work in computer vision and generative models, particularly in image-to-image translation.
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B.
Yanluo Wang
Yanluo Wang is the Chinese deity who presides over the underworld and judges the souls of the dead.
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C.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
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D.
Xiaodong Chen
Xiaodong Chen is a prominent materials scientist and nanotechnology researcher who serves as editor-in-chief of the journal ACS Nano.
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E.
Yuhuai Wu
Yuhuai Wu is an AI researcher and entrepreneur known for his work on large language models and as a member of Elon Musk’s xAI team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novelist
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| citizenship |
China
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ war fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Geling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Chinese
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| name | Geling Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
American
ⓘ
Chinese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 严歌苓 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depictions of women in wartime China
ⓘ
emotionally powerful narratives ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fusang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Little Aunt Crane NERFINISHED ⓘ The Banquet Bug NERFINISHED ⓘ The Criminal Lu Yanshi NERFINISHED ⓘ The Flowers of War NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lost Daughter of Happiness NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ninth Widow NERFINISHED ⓘ White Snake and Other Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ Youth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| workAdaptedInto |
film "Coming Home"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
film "The Flowers of War" NERFINISHED ⓘ film "Youth" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workFocus |
human impact of war
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political upheaval in China ⓘ social change in modern Chinese history ⓘ |
| wrote |
novel "Fusang"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
novel "Little Aunt Crane" NERFINISHED ⓘ novel "The Banquet Bug" NERFINISHED ⓘ novel "The Criminal Lu Yanshi" NERFINISHED ⓘ novel "The Flowers of War" NERFINISHED ⓘ novel "The Lost Daughter of Happiness" NERFINISHED ⓘ novel "The Ninth Widow" NERFINISHED ⓘ novel "Youth" NERFINISHED ⓘ short story collection "White Snake and Other Stories" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Geling Yan Description of subject: Geling Yan is a Chinese-American novelist and screenwriter known for her emotionally powerful works that often explore the human impact of war, political upheaval, and social change in modern Chinese history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Criminal Lu Yanshi