Battle of An
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The Battle of An was a significant military engagement in ancient China involving the powerful State of Jin during the Spring and Autumn period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Battle of An canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8147954 — 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: Battle of An Context triple: [State of Jin, majorBattle, Battle of An]
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Battle of Val
The Battle of Val, also known as the Battle of Lauffeld (1747), was a major engagement of the War of the Austrian Succession in which French forces under Marshal Maurice de Saxe defeated the allied British, Dutch, and Austrian armies in the Austrian Netherlands.
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Battle of Bi
The Battle of Bi was a major Spring and Autumn period conflict in 597 BCE in which the state of Chu decisively defeated the state of Jin, helping establish Chu’s dominance in central China.
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C.
Battle of Peonnum
The Battle of Peonnum was an early medieval conflict in Anglo-Saxon England in which the Kingdom of Wessex fought to expand its territory, likely against neighboring British or rival Anglo-Saxon forces.
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D.
Battle of Basian
The Battle of Basian was a 13th-century clash between the Kingdom of Georgia and the Seljuk Turks that marked a significant Georgian victory and helped secure the kingdom’s regional dominance in the Caucasus.
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Lindanise battle
The Lindanise battle, more commonly known as the Battle of Lyndanisse (1219), was a key conflict during the Northern Crusades in which Danish forces under King Valdemar II defeated Estonian pagans near present-day Tallinn, Estonia.
- 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: Battle of An Target entity description: The Battle of An was a significant military engagement in ancient China involving the powerful State of Jin during the Spring and Autumn period.
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A.
Battle of Val
The Battle of Val, also known as the Battle of Lauffeld (1747), was a major engagement of the War of the Austrian Succession in which French forces under Marshal Maurice de Saxe defeated the allied British, Dutch, and Austrian armies in the Austrian Netherlands.
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B.
Battle of Bi
The Battle of Bi was a major Spring and Autumn period conflict in 597 BCE in which the state of Chu decisively defeated the state of Jin, helping establish Chu’s dominance in central China.
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C.
Battle of Peonnum
The Battle of Peonnum was an early medieval conflict in Anglo-Saxon England in which the Kingdom of Wessex fought to expand its territory, likely against neighboring British or rival Anglo-Saxon forces.
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D.
Battle of Basian
The Battle of Basian was a 13th-century clash between the Kingdom of Georgia and the Seljuk Turks that marked a significant Georgian victory and helped secure the kingdom’s regional dominance in the Caucasus.
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E.
Lindanise battle
The Lindanise battle, more commonly known as the Battle of Lyndanisse (1219), was a key conflict during the Northern Crusades in which Danish forces under King Valdemar II defeated Estonian pagans near present-day Tallinn, Estonia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
battle
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military conflict ⓘ |
| belligerent | State of Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologicalContext | before the Warring States period ⓘ |
| conflictType | land battle ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| describedBySource | ancient Chinese historical texts ⓘ |
| era | Zhou dynasty era ⓘ |
| followedBy | later Jin military campaigns ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | Zhou dynasty interstate warfare ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRegion | ancient China ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfPrimarySources | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| hasSubject | power struggles among Chinese states ⓘ |
| involves | interstate conflict among Zhou vassal states ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod | Spring and Autumn period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | An NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participant | State of Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Spring and Autumn period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | earlier Spring and Autumn interstate conflicts ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Chinese military history
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Spring and Autumn Annals NERFINISHED ⓘ history of the State of Jin ⓘ |
| significance | significant military engagement involving the State of Jin ⓘ |
| studiedInDiscipline |
Chinese history
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Sinology ⓘ military history ⓘ |
| typeOfWarfare | ancient Chinese warfare ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Battle of An Description of subject: The Battle of An was a significant military engagement in ancient China involving the powerful State of Jin during the Spring and Autumn period.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.