Temple of Yan Hui
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The Temple of Yan Hui is a historic shrine in Qufu, China, dedicated to Confucius’s favorite disciple and an important site of Confucian worship and heritage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Temple of Yan Hui canonical | 1 |
| 颜庙 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6354896 — 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: Temple of Yan Hui Context triple: [Qufu, hasTemple, Temple of Yan Hui]
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A.
Temple of Marquis Wu
The Temple of Marquis Wu is a historic shrine in Chengdu, China, dedicated to the revered Three Kingdoms-era strategist Zhuge Liang.
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B.
Temple of Confucius
The Temple of Confucius is a major historical complex in Qufu dedicated to honoring the philosopher Confucius and serving as a key center of Confucian worship and culture in China.
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C.
Cemetery of Confucius
The Cemetery of Confucius is an extensive burial site in Qufu where Confucius and many of his descendants are interred, forming part of a major Confucian cultural heritage complex.
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D.
Longshan Temple
Longshan Temple is a historic and richly decorated Buddhist and folk religion temple in Taipei, Taiwan, renowned as one of the city’s most important religious and cultural sites.
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E.
Nanyan Temple
Nanyan Temple is a renowned Taoist temple complex in China, celebrated for its dramatic cliffside setting and association with the sacred Wudang Mountains.
- 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: Temple of Yan Hui Target entity description: The Temple of Yan Hui is a historic shrine in Qufu, China, dedicated to Confucius’s favorite disciple and an important site of Confucian worship and heritage.
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A.
Temple of Marquis Wu
The Temple of Marquis Wu is a historic shrine in Chengdu, China, dedicated to the revered Three Kingdoms-era strategist Zhuge Liang.
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B.
Temple of Confucius
The Temple of Confucius is a major historical complex in Qufu dedicated to honoring the philosopher Confucius and serving as a key center of Confucian worship and culture in China.
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C.
Cemetery of Confucius
The Cemetery of Confucius is an extensive burial site in Qufu where Confucius and many of his descendants are interred, forming part of a major Confucian cultural heritage complex.
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D.
Longshan Temple
Longshan Temple is a historic and richly decorated Buddhist and folk religion temple in Taipei, Taiwan, renowned as one of the city’s most important religious and cultural sites.
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E.
Nanyan Temple
Nanyan Temple is a renowned Taoist temple complex in China, celebrated for its dramatic cliffside setting and association with the sacred Wudang Mountains.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confucian temple
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historic site ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | traditional Chinese temple architecture ⓘ |
| associatedSchool | Confucian school of thought ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Confucius ⓘ |
| commemorates | virtue and learning of Yan Hui ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Chinese traditional culture ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Yan Hui ⓘ |
| era | imperial China ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
pilgrimage site for Confucian followers
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place of ritual offerings to Yan Hui ⓘ |
| hasHeritageValue | preservation of Confucian ritual traditions ⓘ |
| hasLocalName |
颜庙
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linked to:
Temple of Yan Hui
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| hasRole | commemorates Confucius’s favorite disciple ⓘ |
| hasType | ancestral temple ⓘ |
| heritageType | Confucian heritage site ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Qufu
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Shandong Province ⓘ
linked to:
Shandong
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| namedAfter | Yan Hui ⓘ |
| near |
Cemetery of Confucius
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Kong Family Mansion ⓘ Temple of Confucius in Qufu ⓘ
linked to:
Temple of Confucius
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| partOf |
Confucian cultural landscape of Qufu
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linked to:
Cemetery of Confucius
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| religion | Confucianism ⓘ |
| significance | important site of Confucian worship ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Confucian ceremonies
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cultural tourism ⓘ |
| worshippedFigure | Yan Hui ⓘ |
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: Temple of Yan Hui Description of subject: The Temple of Yan Hui is a historic shrine in Qufu, China, dedicated to Confucius’s favorite disciple and an important site of Confucian worship and heritage.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Temple of Yan Hui