Yuanfu
E579848
Yuanfu was the courtesy name of Lin Zexu, the prominent Qing dynasty official known for his role in suppressing the opium trade and helping trigger the First Opium War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yuanfu canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6263190 — 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: Yuanfu Context triple: [Lin Zexu, courtesyName, Yuanfu]
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A.
Yuanzhen
Yuanzhen was the Chinese era name used during the reign of Temür Khan, the second emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
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B.
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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C.
Yuanhong
Yuanhong is a Chinese given name that appears in the full name of the historical figure Li Yuanhong.
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D.
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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E.
Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
- 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: Yuanfu Target entity description: Yuanfu was the courtesy name of Lin Zexu, the prominent Qing dynasty official known for his role in suppressing the opium trade and helping trigger the First Opium War.
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A.
Yuanzhen
Yuanzhen was the Chinese era name used during the reign of Temür Khan, the second emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
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B.
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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C.
Yuanhong
Yuanhong is a Chinese given name that appears in the full name of the historical figure Li Yuanhong.
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D.
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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E.
Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Qing dynasty official
ⓘ
courtesy name ⓘ person ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1785-08-30 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Fujian
ⓘ
Fuzhou ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
Lin Zexu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou
ⓘ
Lin Zexu Memorial Museum in Guangzhou ⓘ statues in China ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| courtesyName | Yuanfu ⓘ |
| courtesyNameOf | Lin Zexu ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1850-11-22 ⓘ |
| education | Confucian classical education ⓘ |
| employer |
Qing government
ⓘ
linked to:
Qing dynasty
|
| era |
late Qing dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Qing dynasty
|
| examSystem | imperial examination system ⓘ |
| familyName | Lin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
administration
ⓘ
foreign affairs ⓘ law enforcement ⓘ |
| givenName | Zexu ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
key figure in modern Chinese history
ⓘ
symbol of Chinese resistance to foreign imperialism ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | national hero of China ⓘ |
| knownFor |
destruction of opium at Humen
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role in triggering the First Opium War ⓘ suppression of the opium trade ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| monarchServed | Daoguang Emperor ⓘ |
| movement | anti-opium movement ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
First Opium War
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglo-Chinese War
Humen Opium Destruction ⓘ |
| passedExam | jinshi degree ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Guangdong
ⓘ
linked to:
Guangdong Province
Puning ⓘ
linked to:
Püning
|
| positionHeld |
Governor-General of Huguang
ⓘ
Governor-General of Shaan-Gan ⓘ Imperial Commissioner ⓘ Viceroy of Liangguang ⓘ
linked to:
Governor-General of Liangguang
|
| regionOfActivity |
Gansu
ⓘ
linked to:
Gansu Province
Guangdong ⓘ
linked to:
Guangdong Province
Hubei ⓘ
linked to:
Hubei Province
Hunan ⓘ
linked to:
Hunan Province
Shaanxi ⓘ
linked to:
Shaanxi Province
|
| religion | Confucianism ⓘ |
| usedIn | Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| wrote | letter to Queen Victoria on the opium trade ⓘ |
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: Yuanfu Description of subject: Yuanfu was the courtesy name of Lin Zexu, the prominent Qing dynasty official known for his role in suppressing the opium trade and helping trigger the First Opium War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Yuanfu