Hong Xiuquan
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19th-century Chinese person
Chinese revolutionary
political leader
rebellion leader
religious leader
Hong Xiuquan was a 19th-century Chinese religious leader and revolutionary who led the massive Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty, claiming to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hong Xiuquan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7384359 — 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: Hong Xiuquan Context triple: [Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, founder, Hong Xiuquan]
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A.
Ye Ting
Ye Ting was a prominent Chinese military leader and revolutionary who played key roles in early Nationalist and Communist movements, including commanding forces in the Northern Expedition and the Nanchang Uprising.
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B.
Peng Pai
Peng Pai was an influential early 20th-century Chinese communist leader and pioneer of the peasant movement in China.
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C.
Li Zicheng
Li Zicheng was a rebel leader who overthrew the Ming dynasty in 1644 and briefly ruled China as the founder of the short-lived Shun dynasty.
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D.
Zeng Chenggong
Zeng Chenggong, better known in the West as Koxinga, was a 17th-century Ming loyalist military leader who expelled the Dutch from Taiwan and established a Chinese regime on the island.
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E.
Liu Yongfu
Liu Yongfu was a prominent 19th-century Chinese military leader and head of the Black Flag Army, noted for his resistance against French colonial forces 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: Hong Xiuquan Target entity description: Hong Xiuquan was a 19th-century Chinese religious leader and revolutionary who led the massive Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty, claiming to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ.
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A.
Ye Ting
Ye Ting was a prominent Chinese military leader and revolutionary who played key roles in early Nationalist and Communist movements, including commanding forces in the Northern Expedition and the Nanchang Uprising.
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B.
Peng Pai
Peng Pai was an influential early 20th-century Chinese communist leader and pioneer of the peasant movement in China.
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C.
Li Zicheng
Li Zicheng was a rebel leader who overthrew the Ming dynasty in 1644 and briefly ruled China as the founder of the short-lived Shun dynasty.
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D.
Zeng Chenggong
Zeng Chenggong, better known in the West as Koxinga, was a 17th-century Ming loyalist military leader who expelled the Dutch from Taiwan and established a Chinese regime on the island.
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E.
Liu Yongfu
Liu Yongfu was a prominent 19th-century Chinese military leader and head of the Black Flag Army, noted for his resistance against French colonial forces in Vietnam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century Chinese person
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Chinese revolutionary ⓘ political leader ⓘ rebellion leader ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Feng Yunshan
NERFINISHED
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Hong Rengan NERFINISHED ⓘ Shi Dakai NERFINISHED ⓘ Yang Xiuqing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Guangdong Province
NERFINISHED
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Huaxian, Guangdong NERFINISHED ⓘ Qing Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1814 ⓘ |
| capitalEstablishedAt | Tianjing (Nanjing) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| conflict |
Chinese civil wars of the 19th century
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Taiping Rebellion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Qing Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Nanjing
NERFINISHED
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Qing Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Tianjing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1864 ⓘ |
| education | Confucian classical education ⓘ |
| era | late Qing dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Hakka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded |
God Worshipping Society
NERFINISHED
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Taiping Heavenly Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Xiuquan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Christian missionary tracts
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Liang Fa NERFINISHED ⓘ Protestant Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
claiming to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ
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founding the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom ⓘ leading the Taiping Rebellion ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Chinese
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Hakka ⓘ |
| movement | Taiping Rebellion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Hong Xiuquan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
capture of Nanjing in 1853
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proclamation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in 1851 ⓘ visions after examination failure ⓘ |
| opponent |
Qing dynasty
NERFINISHED
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Qing imperial forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Heavenly King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity-inspired syncretic faith
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God Worshipping Society NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Heavenly King 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: Hong Xiuquan Description of subject: Hong Xiuquan was a 19th-century Chinese religious leader and revolutionary who led the massive Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty, claiming to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.