Yuan Dadu
E578714
Yuan Dadu was the capital city of the Yuan dynasty in China, located on the site of present-day Beijing and serving as a major political and cultural center of the Mongol-ruled empire.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ming Beijing | 2 |
| Yuan Dadu canonical | 2 |
| Beiping (later historical city name in same area) | 1 |
| 大都 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6219872 — 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: Yuan Dadu Context triple: [Dadu, alsoKnownAs, Yuan Dadu]
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A.
Tiāntán
Tiāntán is the Chinese pinyin name for the Temple of Heaven, a historic imperial religious complex in Beijing where Ming and Qing dynasty emperors performed annual ceremonies to pray for good harvests.
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B.
Zhongdu
Zhongdu was the historical capital city of the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty in northern China, located in what is now part of modern Beijing.
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C.
Yiheyuan
Yiheyuan, known in English as the Summer Palace, is a vast imperial garden and former royal retreat in Beijing famed for its lakes, palaces, and classical Chinese landscape design.
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D.
Shangdu
Shangdu was the summer capital of Kublai Khan’s Yuan dynasty in China, later immortalized in Western literature as the fabled city of Xanadu.
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E.
Chang'an
Chang'an was the ancient capital of several Chinese dynasties and a major political, cultural, and trade center along the Silk Road.
- 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: Yuan Dadu Target entity description: Yuan Dadu was the capital city of the Yuan dynasty in China, located on the site of present-day Beijing and serving as a major political and cultural center of the Mongol-ruled empire.
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A.
Tiāntán
Tiāntán is the Chinese pinyin name for the Temple of Heaven, a historic imperial religious complex in Beijing where Ming and Qing dynasty emperors performed annual ceremonies to pray for good harvests.
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B.
Zhongdu
Zhongdu was the historical capital city of the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty in northern China, located in what is now part of modern Beijing.
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C.
Yiheyuan
Yiheyuan, known in English as the Summer Palace, is a vast imperial garden and former royal retreat in Beijing famed for its lakes, palaces, and classical Chinese landscape design.
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D.
Shangdu
Shangdu was the summer capital of Kublai Khan’s Yuan dynasty in China, later immortalized in Western literature as the fabled city of Xanadu.
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E.
Chang'an
Chang'an was the ancient capital of several Chinese dynasties and a major political, cultural, and trade center along the Silk Road.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former capital
ⓘ
historical city ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Dadu
ⓘ
Daidu ⓘ
linked to:
Dadu
Khanbaliq ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mongol rule in China
ⓘ
Sinicization of the Mongol court ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Yuan dynasty ⓘ |
| ChineseName |
大都
ⓘ
linked to:
Yuan Dadu
|
| country | Yuan dynasty ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Kublai Khan ⓘ |
| foundingDynasty | Yuan dynasty ⓘ |
| function |
administrative center
ⓘ
imperial residence ⓘ |
| governedBy | Yuan imperial court ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | important site in Chinese urban history ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Yuan dynasty period
ⓘ
linked to:
Yuan dynasty
|
| influencedBy |
Chinese city planning traditions
ⓘ
Mongol urban planning ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Chinese ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
Silk Road networks
ⓘ
linked to:
Silk Road routes
|
| locatedIn |
China
ⓘ
North China ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Beijing ⓘ |
| locatedOnSiteOf | present-day Beijing ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | Great Capital ⓘ |
| modernRemnantsLocatedIn | Beijing ⓘ |
| modernRemnantsType | archaeological remains ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
city walls and gates
ⓘ
imperial palace complex ⓘ regular grid layout ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mongol Empire
ⓘ
history of Beijing ⓘ |
| predecessorSettlement | Zhongdu ⓘ |
| region | North China Plain ⓘ |
| role |
center of multiethnic population
ⓘ
hub of trans-Eurasian trade under the Yuan ⓘ |
| rulingDynasty | Yuan dynasty ⓘ |
| servedAs |
capital of the Yuan dynasty
ⓘ
cultural center of the Yuan dynasty ⓘ political center of the Yuan dynasty ⓘ |
| successorCity |
Ming Beijing
ⓘ
Ming capital (Beiping/Beijing) ⓘ
linked to:
Ming Beijing
|
| timePeriod |
13th century
ⓘ
14th century ⓘ |
| usedAs | seat of the Great Khan in China ⓘ |
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: Yuan Dadu Description of subject: Yuan Dadu was the capital city of the Yuan dynasty in China, located on the site of present-day Beijing and serving as a major political and cultural center of the Mongol-ruled empire.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yuan Dadu
linked to: Yuan Dadu
linked to: Yuan Dadu