Former Yan
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Former Yan was a Xianbei-led state during China’s Sixteen Kingdoms period, known for controlling parts of northern China in the 4th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Former Yan canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8148064 — 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: Former Yan Context triple: [Western Jin dynasty, successorState, Former Yan]
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A.
Yan
Yan is a Chinese surname historically borne by various notable figures and families across different regions of China.
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B.
Former Zhao
Former Zhao was a short-lived Han Chinese state during the Sixteen Kingdoms period in northern China, known for its powerful rule under the Jie-led Later Zhao that followed and its control of key cities such as Chang'an.
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C.
Shu
Shu is a Chinese surname borne by numerous individuals across history and contemporary society.
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D.
Shu
Shu is an ancient Egyptian god of air and light, often depicted separating the sky goddess Nut from the earth god Geb.
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E.
Yuchi
The Yuchi are a Native American people historically from the Southeastern United States, known for their distinct language and cultural traditions separate from neighboring tribes.
- 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: Former Yan Target entity description: Former Yan was a Xianbei-led state during China’s Sixteen Kingdoms period, known for controlling parts of northern China in the 4th century.
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A.
Yan
Yan is a Chinese surname historically borne by various notable figures and families across different regions of China.
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B.
Former Zhao
Former Zhao was a short-lived Han Chinese state during the Sixteen Kingdoms period in northern China, known for its powerful rule under the Jie-led Later Zhao that followed and its control of key cities such as Chang'an.
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C.
Shu
Shu is a Chinese surname borne by numerous individuals across history and contemporary society.
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D.
Shu
Shu is an ancient Egyptian god of air and light, often depicted separating the sky goddess Nut from the earth god Geb.
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E.
Yuchi
The Yuchi are a Native American people historically from the Southeastern United States, known for their distinct language and cultural traditions separate from neighboring tribes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Former Yan Description of subject: Former Yan was a Xianbei-led state during China’s Sixteen Kingdoms period, known for controlling parts of northern China in the 4th century.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.