Grand Scribe’s Records
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Grand Scribe’s Records is an ancient Chinese historical text by Sima Qian that chronicles Chinese history from legendary times through the Han dynasty and is considered a foundational work of Chinese historiography.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Grand Scribe’s Records canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7824785 — 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: Grand Scribe’s Records Context triple: [Records of the Grand Historian, alsoKnownAs, Grand Scribe’s Records]
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A.
Codex
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B.
Record of Ancient Matters
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C.
Codex Euricianus
The Codex Euricianus is one of the earliest known Germanic law codes, issued by the Visigothic king Euric in the late 5th century to regulate relations between Goths and Romans.
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D.
Five Scrolls
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E.
Book of Splendor
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- 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: Grand Scribe’s Records Target entity description: Grand Scribe’s Records is an ancient Chinese historical text by Sima Qian that chronicles Chinese history from legendary times through the Han dynasty and is considered a foundational work of Chinese historiography.
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A.
Codex
Codex is an AI system developed by OpenAI that translates natural language into code and powers tools like GitHub Copilot.
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B.
Record of Ancient Matters
Record of Ancient Matters is the English title of the Kojiki, Japan’s oldest extant chronicle compiling its mythological origins, early history, and Shinto deities.
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C.
Codex Euricianus
The Codex Euricianus is one of the earliest known Germanic law codes, issued by the Visigothic king Euric in the late 5th century to regulate relations between Goths and Romans.
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D.
Five Scrolls
The Five Scrolls are a collection of five biblical books in the Hebrew Bible—Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther—traditionally read on specific Jewish festivals.
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E.
Book of Splendor
The Book of Splendor is a foundational work of Jewish mysticism in the Kabbalistic tradition, offering esoteric commentary on the Torah and the nature of the divine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese historiographical work
ⓘ
ancient Chinese book ⓘ historical text ⓘ |
| author | Sima Qian ⓘ |
| belongsToTradition | Chinese classical historiography ⓘ |
| chroniclesPeriodFrom | legendary Yellow Emperor era ⓘ |
| chroniclesPeriodTo | Han dynasty ⓘ |
| citedBy | later Confucian scholars ⓘ |
| commissionedBy |
Han Wudi
ⓘ
linked to:
Emperor Wu of Han
|
| compiler | Sima Qian ⓘ |
| considered | foundational work of Chinese historiography ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| coversTopic |
Qin dynasty
ⓘ
early Han dynasty ⓘ pre-imperial China ⓘ |
| dateOfComposition | circa 1st century BCE ⓘ |
| dynastyContext | Han dynasty ⓘ |
| genre |
annalistic history
ⓘ
biographical history ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeEnglishTitle |
Historical Records
ⓘ
Records of the Historian ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
Mandate of Heaven
ⓘ
cyclical view of history ⓘ moral evaluation of rulers ⓘ |
| hasModernTranslations | multiple modern languages ⓘ |
| hasNotableFigureBiographies |
Confucius
ⓘ
linked to:
Confucius (as the Great Accomplished Sage)
Emperor Qin Shi Huang ⓘ
linked to:
Qin Shi Huang
Laozi ⓘ Liu Bang ⓘ
linked to:
Emperor Gaozu of Han
Xiang Yu ⓘ |
| influenced |
Book of Han
ⓘ
East Asian historiography ⓘ later Chinese dynastic histories ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | prose ⓘ |
| numberOfChapters | 130 ⓘ |
| originalTitle | 史記 ⓘ |
| partOfCorpus |
Chinese classics (broad sense)
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linked to:
Confucian classics
|
| preservedIn | traditional Chinese book format ⓘ |
| structureComponent |
basic annals
ⓘ
biographies ⓘ chronological tables ⓘ hereditary houses ⓘ treatises ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | Chinese history ⓘ |
| translatedTitle | Records of the Grand Historian ⓘ |
| usedAsSourceFor | research on early Chinese history ⓘ |
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: Grand Scribe’s Records Description of subject: Grand Scribe’s Records is an ancient Chinese historical text by Sima Qian that chronicles Chinese history from legendary times through the Han dynasty and is considered a foundational work of Chinese historiography.
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