Mei school
E684781
Mei school is a renowned style of Peking opera performance founded by the legendary artist Mei Lanfang, noted for its highly refined portrayal of female roles (dan).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mei school canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7726395 — 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: Mei school Context triple: [Peking opera, hasFamousSchool, Mei school]
-
A.
Mekoryuk school
Mekoryuk School is a local educational institution serving students in the remote village of Mekoryuk, Alaska.
-
B.
Gakushuin Primary School
Gakushuin Primary School is an elite private elementary school in Tokyo historically attended by members of the Japanese imperial family and other social elites.
-
C.
Achimota School
Achimota School is a prestigious co-educational secondary school in Accra, Ghana, renowned for educating many of the country’s most prominent leaders and professionals.
-
D.
Seikei Gakuen
Seikei Gakuen is a Japanese educational foundation that manages a network of schools and institutions, including Seikei University, in Tokyo.
-
E.
Gakushuin Girls’ Junior High School
Gakushuin Girls’ Junior High School is a prestigious private girls’ school in Japan that forms the lower secondary section of the Gakushuin educational system, historically associated with educating members of the Japanese nobility.
- 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: Mei school Target entity description: Mei school is a renowned style of Peking opera performance founded by the legendary artist Mei Lanfang, noted for its highly refined portrayal of female roles (dan).
-
A.
Mekoryuk school
Mekoryuk School is a local educational institution serving students in the remote village of Mekoryuk, Alaska.
-
B.
Gakushuin Primary School
Gakushuin Primary School is an elite private elementary school in Tokyo historically attended by members of the Japanese imperial family and other social elites.
-
C.
Achimota School
Achimota School is a prestigious co-educational secondary school in Accra, Ghana, renowned for educating many of the country’s most prominent leaders and professionals.
-
D.
Seikei Gakuen
Seikei Gakuen is a Japanese educational foundation that manages a network of schools and institutions, including Seikei University, in Tokyo.
-
E.
Gakushuin Girls’ Junior High School
Gakushuin Girls’ Junior High School is a prestigious private girls’ school in Japan that forms the lower secondary section of the Gakushuin educational system, historically associated with educating members of the Japanese nobility.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Peking opera school
ⓘ
performance style ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Mei pai ⓘ |
| artForm | Chinese opera ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Mei Lanfang ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Chinese performing arts ⓘ |
| focusesOn | dan roles ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Mei Lanfang ⓘ |
| genre | Peking opera ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
delicate emotional expression
ⓘ
elegant movement ⓘ graceful stage presence ⓘ refined vocal style ⓘ |
| hasReputation | renowned style of Peking opera performance ⓘ |
| hasStudentLineage | disciples of Mei Lanfang ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodOfFormation | early 20th century ⓘ |
| influenced | modern Peking opera aesthetics ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Mei Lanfang’s performance practice ⓘ |
| language | Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mei Lanfang ⓘ |
| notableFor | highly refined portrayal of female roles ⓘ |
| partOf |
Four Great Schools of Peking opera dan performance
ⓘ
linked to:
Peking opera
|
| performanceEmphasis |
lyricism
ⓘ
refinement ⓘ subtlety ⓘ |
| performanceTradition | Peking opera dan roles ⓘ |
| roleTypeSpecialization |
daomadan
ⓘ
guimen dan ⓘ qingyi ⓘ |
| roleTypeSpecialization | huadan ⓘ |
| uses |
codified facial expressions
ⓘ
elaborate makeup ⓘ ornate costumes ⓘ stylized gestures ⓘ |
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: Mei school Description of subject: Mei school is a renowned style of Peking opera performance founded by the legendary artist Mei Lanfang, noted for its highly refined portrayal of female roles (dan).
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.