Shouchun
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Shouchun was an ancient Chinese city that served as a major political center and later capital of the state of Chu during the Warring States period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shouchun canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8066501 — 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: Shouchun Context triple: [King Kaolie of Chu, capitalDuringReign, Shouchun]
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A.
Xun Kuang
Xun Kuang, better known as Xunzi, was an influential Warring States–period Confucian philosopher noted for his belief in the innate badness of human nature and the importance of ritual and education.
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B.
Wen Gong
Wen Gong is the posthumous honorific title bestowed on the influential Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi, reflecting his esteemed status in Chinese intellectual history.
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C.
Yüeh-chih
Yüeh-chih were an ancient Indo-European nomadic people of Central Asia who played a key role in the formation of the Kushan Empire and the cultural exchanges along the Silk Road.
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D.
Ma Sichun
Ma Sichun is a Chinese actress known for her acclaimed film and television roles, including winning the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress.
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E.
Sima Yan
Sima Yan was the founding emperor of the Jin dynasty in China, known for ending the Three Kingdoms period by unifying the realm after overthrowing the state of Cao Wei.
- 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: Shouchun Target entity description: Shouchun was an ancient Chinese city that served as a major political center and later capital of the state of Chu during the Warring States period.
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A.
Xun Kuang
Xun Kuang, better known as Xunzi, was an influential Warring States–period Confucian philosopher noted for his belief in the innate badness of human nature and the importance of ritual and education.
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B.
Wen Gong
Wen Gong is the posthumous honorific title bestowed on the influential Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi, reflecting his esteemed status in Chinese intellectual history.
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C.
Yüeh-chih
Yüeh-chih were an ancient Indo-European nomadic people of Central Asia who played a key role in the formation of the Kushan Empire and the cultural exchanges along the Silk Road.
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D.
Ma Sichun
Ma Sichun is a Chinese actress known for her acclaimed film and television roles, including winning the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress.
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E.
Sima Yan
Sima Yan was the founding emperor of the Jin dynasty in China, known for ending the Three Kingdoms period by unifying the realm after overthrowing the state of Cao Wei.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ancient Chinese city ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Chu kings
ⓘ
Warring States diplomacy ⓘ
linked to:
Warring States conflicts
|
| capitalOf | Chu ⓘ |
| civilization | Chinese civilization ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culture | Chu culture ⓘ |
| diplomaticFunction | venue for interstate negotiations ⓘ |
| era | pre-imperial China ⓘ |
| function |
administrative center
ⓘ
military stronghold ⓘ royal residence ⓘ |
| governedBy | monarchs of Chu ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Eastern Zhou dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Zhou
|
| historicalRegion | Ancient China ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Old Chinese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | State of Chu ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | Warring States period ⓘ |
| militaryFunction | base for Chu armies ⓘ |
| partOf | Chu urban network ⓘ |
| politicalFunction | center for state administration of Chu ⓘ |
| politicalStatus |
capital of Chu
ⓘ
seat of Chu court ⓘ |
| predecessorCapitalOfChu | Ying ⓘ |
| role |
capital city
ⓘ
political center ⓘ |
| significance |
important city in Warring States politics
ⓘ
major political center of Chu ⓘ |
| successorState | Qin dynasty ⓘ |
| timeAsCapital | late Warring States period ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Chu state government
ⓘ
linked to:
Chu (Ten Kingdoms)
|
| writingSystem | Chinese characters ⓘ |
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: Shouchun Description of subject: Shouchun was an ancient Chinese city that served as a major political center and later capital of the state of Chu during the Warring States period.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.