present-day Yuncheng, Shanxi, China
E715200
Present-day Yuncheng in Shanxi, China, is a historic city renowned as the birthplace of the famed Three Kingdoms general and deified figure Guan Yu.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| present-day Yuncheng, Shanxi, China canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8158125 — 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: present-day Yuncheng, Shanxi, China Context triple: [Guan Yu, birthPlace, present-day Yuncheng, Shanxi, China]
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A.
Fenyang, Shanxi
Fenyang, Shanxi is a county-level city in central Shanxi Province, China, known for its historical heritage and as the hometown of acclaimed film director Jia Zhangke.
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B.
Xianyang, China
Xianyang is a historic city in Shaanxi Province, China, known as the former capital of the Qin dynasty and located near the modern metropolis of Xi’an.
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C.
Shanxi Province
Shanxi Province is a landlocked region in northern China known for its rich coal resources, well-preserved ancient architecture, and significant historical and cultural heritage.
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D.
Jinzhong
Jinzhong is a prefecture-level city in northern China known for its historical sites and cultural heritage within Shanxi Province.
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E.
Jincheng
Jincheng is an ancient name historically used for the Chinese city now known as Lanzhou, a key regional center along the Silk Road in Gansu Province.
- 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: present-day Yuncheng, Shanxi, China Target entity description: Present-day Yuncheng in Shanxi, China, is a historic city renowned as the birthplace of the famed Three Kingdoms general and deified figure Guan Yu.
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A.
Fenyang, Shanxi
Fenyang, Shanxi is a county-level city in central Shanxi Province, China, known for its historical heritage and as the hometown of acclaimed film director Jia Zhangke.
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B.
Xianyang, China
Xianyang is a historic city in Shaanxi Province, China, known as the former capital of the Qin dynasty and located near the modern metropolis of Xi’an.
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C.
Shanxi Province
Shanxi Province is a landlocked region in northern China known for its rich coal resources, well-preserved ancient architecture, and significant historical and cultural heritage.
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D.
Jinzhong
Jinzhong is a prefecture-level city in northern China known for its historical sites and cultural heritage within Shanxi Province.
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E.
Jincheng
Jincheng is an ancient name historically used for the Chinese city now known as Lanzhou, a key regional center along the Silk Road in Gansu Province.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
county-level city ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionOf | Shanxi Province ⓘ |
| climate | temperate continental monsoon climate ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| economyType | mixed agricultural and industrial economy ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Yuncheng municipal government
ⓘ
linked to:
Yuncheng Municipal Government
|
| hasAttraction |
Guan Di Temple sites
ⓘ
linked to:
Guandi Temple
historic city areas related to Guan Yu ⓘ |
| hasCulturalHeritage | sites venerating Guan Yu as a deity ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | birthplace region of Guan Yu ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
light industry ⓘ resource processing ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
regional commercial center in southwest Shanxi
ⓘ
transport hub between Shanxi and Shaanxi ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | Three Kingdoms period cultural sites ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalPeriod | history dating back to ancient China ⓘ |
| hasNearbyProvince |
Henan
ⓘ
linked to:
Henan Province
Shaanxi ⓘ
linked to:
Shaanxi Province
|
| hasPopulation | hundreds of thousands ⓘ |
| hasReligion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Chinese folk religion ⓘ Taoism ⓘ |
| hasRiver | nearby Yellow River irrigation areas ⓘ |
| hasStatus | contemporary urban settlement ⓘ |
| hasTransport |
highways linking to Taiyuan
ⓘ
highways linking to Xi'an ⓘ railway connections in Shanxi ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Hedong
ⓘ
linked to:
Hedong Commandery
|
| knownFor |
association with Guan Yu
ⓘ
historic temples dedicated to Guan Yu ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Fen River basin vicinity
ⓘ
People's Republic of China ⓘ
linked to:
China
Shanxi ⓘ
linked to:
Shanxi Province
Yuncheng Prefecture-level city ⓘ
linked to:
Yuncheng prefecture-level city
northern China ⓘ
linked to:
North China
southwest Shanxi ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | China Standard Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Yellow River
ⓘ
border of Shanxi and Shaanxi ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Chinese Loess Plateau edge ⓘ |
| partOf |
Yuncheng City (prefecture-level)
ⓘ
linked to:
Yuncheng prefecture-level city
|
| primaryLanguage | Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | county-level city under prefecture-level Yuncheng ⓘ |
| usesWritingSystem | Chinese characters ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +8 ⓘ |
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: present-day Yuncheng, Shanxi, China Description of subject: Present-day Yuncheng in Shanxi, China, is a historic city renowned as the birthplace of the famed Three Kingdoms general and deified figure Guan Yu.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.