King Cheng of Zhou
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King Cheng of Zhou was an early Western Zhou dynasty ruler in ancient China, known for consolidating royal authority and granting hereditary fiefs to regional clans and nobles.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King Cheng of Zhou canonical | 23 |
| King Cheng of Zhou (as enfeoffing ruler) | 1 |
| King Kang of Zhou | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7946596 — 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: King Cheng of Zhou Context triple: [Xiong clan, receivedEnfeoffmentFrom, King Cheng of Zhou]
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A.
King Wen of Zhou
King Wen of Zhou was an early Zhou ruler revered as a sage-king whose leadership and reforms laid the groundwork for the Zhou dynasty’s overthrow of the Shang and the establishment of a new political order in ancient China.
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B.
King You of Zhou
King You of Zhou was the last king of the Western Zhou dynasty, infamous for his misrule and the events that led to the dynasty’s collapse.
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C.
King Ping of Zhou
King Ping of Zhou was an early Eastern Zhou monarch who moved the capital east to Luoyang, marking the decline of royal power and the start of the Eastern Zhou period in ancient China.
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D.
King Xian of Zhou
King Xian of Zhou was a late monarch of China’s Zhou dynasty who ruled during its declining Eastern Zhou period.
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E.
King Wu of Zhou
King Wu of Zhou was the founding king of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China, renowned for leading the conquest that ended the Shang dynasty and established a new royal order.
- 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: King Cheng of Zhou Target entity description: King Cheng of Zhou was an early Western Zhou dynasty ruler in ancient China, known for consolidating royal authority and granting hereditary fiefs to regional clans and nobles.
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A.
King Wen of Zhou
King Wen of Zhou was an early Zhou ruler revered as a sage-king whose leadership and reforms laid the groundwork for the Zhou dynasty’s overthrow of the Shang and the establishment of a new political order in ancient China.
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B.
King You of Zhou
King You of Zhou was the last king of the Western Zhou dynasty, infamous for his misrule and the events that led to the dynasty’s collapse.
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C.
King Ping of Zhou
King Ping of Zhou was an early Eastern Zhou monarch who moved the capital east to Luoyang, marking the decline of royal power and the start of the Eastern Zhou period in ancient China.
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D.
King Xian of Zhou
King Xian of Zhou was a late monarch of China’s Zhou dynasty who ruled during its declining Eastern Zhou period.
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E.
King Wu of Zhou
King Wu of Zhou was the founding king of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China, renowned for leading the conquest that ended the Shang dynasty and established a new royal order.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Zhou
ⓘ
Western Zhou ruler ⓘ |
| associatedCapitalRegion |
Wei River valley
ⓘ
linked to:
Wei River
|
| associatedWith |
Mandate of Heaven doctrine
ⓘ
linked to:
Mandate of Heaven
|
| burialCustom | royal Zhou burial rites ⓘ |
| capital | Haojing ⓘ |
| centralizationPolicy | consolidation of royal authority over regional lords ⓘ |
| country | Zhou dynasty ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Bronze Age China
ⓘ
linked to:
Zhou culture
|
| dynasty | Zhou dynasty ⓘ |
| dynastyPhase |
Western Zhou
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Zhou period
|
| era | early 1st millennium BCE ⓘ |
| eraName | none (pre-imperial, no formal era names) ⓘ |
| familyName | Ji ⓘ |
| father | King Wu of Zhou ⓘ |
| givenName | Song ⓘ |
| governmentForm | feudal monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
ancient China
ⓘ
linked to:
Ancient China
|
| house | Ji clan ⓘ |
| implementedPolicy | granting hereditary fiefs to relatives and allies ⓘ |
| knownAs | Zhou Cheng Wang ⓘ |
| language | Old Chinese ⓘ |
| legitimacyBasis | Mandate of Heaven ⓘ |
| notableFor |
consolidating royal authority
ⓘ
granting hereditary fiefs to regional clans and nobles ⓘ strengthening feudal enfeoffment system ⓘ |
| oversaw | distribution of fiefs to Zhou nobles ⓘ |
| personalName | Ji Song ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | hereditary feudal enfeoffment ⓘ |
| posthumousTitle | King Cheng of Zhou ⓘ |
| precededBy | King Wu of Zhou ⓘ |
| predecessor | King Wu of Zhou ⓘ |
| realm |
Central Plains of China
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Plains region of China
|
| regent |
Duke of Shao
ⓘ
Duke of Zhou ⓘ |
| reignPeriod | early Western Zhou dynasty ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Chinese ancestral and ritual worship ⓘ |
| role | supreme ruler of the Zhou feudal hierarchy ⓘ |
| royalHouse | House of Ji ⓘ |
| son | King Kang of Zhou ⓘ |
| succeededBy | King Kang of Zhou ⓘ |
| successor | King Kang of Zhou ⓘ |
| supportedBy | Duke of Zhou ⓘ |
| templeName | Cheng ⓘ |
| title | Son of Heaven ⓘ |
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: King Cheng of Zhou Description of subject: King Cheng of Zhou was an early Western Zhou dynasty ruler in ancient China, known for consolidating royal authority and granting hereditary fiefs to regional clans and nobles.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: King Cheng of Zhou
subject linked to:
Jin State
linked to: King Cheng of Zhou
subject linked to:
Tang Shu Yu (唐叔虞)
subject linked to:
Tang Shu Yu (唐叔虞)