太祖
E719278
太祖 is the posthumous temple name honoring Tang of Shang, the founding king of China’s Shang dynasty.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8202568 — 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: 太祖 Context triple: [Tang of Shang, templeNameInChinese, 太祖]
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A.
趙
趙 is a common Chinese surname with historical roots in ancient China, notably associated with the State of Zhao during the Warring States period.
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B.
Taizu
Taizu is the temple name of the Hongwu Emperor, the founding ruler of China’s Ming dynasty.
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C.
Emperor Taizu of Song
Emperor Taizu of Song was the founding emperor of China’s Song dynasty, known for reunifying much of the country after the Five Dynasties period and establishing enduring civil institutions.
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D.
Emperor Gaozu of Tang
Emperor Gaozu of Tang was the founder and first emperor of China’s Tang dynasty, who established one of the country’s most prosperous and influential imperial eras in the early 7th century.
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E.
Emperor Taizu of Jin
Emperor Taizu of Jin was the founding ruler of the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty in northern China, whose conquests helped end the dominance of the Liao dynasty and reshape the political landscape of East Asia in the 12th century.
- 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: 太祖 Target entity description: 太祖 is the posthumous temple name honoring Tang of Shang, the founding king of China’s Shang dynasty.
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A.
趙
趙 is a common Chinese surname with historical roots in ancient China, notably associated with the State of Zhao during the Warring States period.
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B.
Taizu
Taizu is the temple name of the Hongwu Emperor, the founding ruler of China’s Ming dynasty.
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C.
Emperor Taizu of Song
Emperor Taizu of Song was the founding emperor of China’s Song dynasty, known for reunifying much of the country after the Five Dynasties period and establishing enduring civil institutions.
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D.
Emperor Gaozu of Tang
Emperor Gaozu of Tang was the founder and first emperor of China’s Tang dynasty, who established one of the country’s most prosperous and influential imperial eras in the early 7th century.
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E.
Emperor Taizu of Jin
Emperor Taizu of Jin was the founding ruler of the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty in northern China, whose conquests helped end the dominance of the Liao dynasty and reshape the political landscape of East Asia in the 12th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
尊號
ⓘ
廟號 ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
商湯
ⓘ
linked to:
成湯
|
| appliesToDynastyFounder | true ⓘ |
| appliesToPosition |
商朝國王
ⓘ
linked to:
King of Shang
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| appliesToRole | 商朝開國君主 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
中國古代帝王制度
ⓘ
宗廟祭祀 ⓘ |
| classification | 中國帝王尊號 ⓘ |
| country | 中國 ⓘ |
| era | 前二千紀中國 ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
中國商朝
ⓘ
linked to:
Shang dynasty
|
| honorificCategory | 宗廟稱號 ⓘ |
| honorificFor |
商湯
ⓘ
linked to:
成湯
天乙 ⓘ 成湯 ⓘ 湯 ⓘ |
| isPosthumous | true ⓘ |
| language | 中文 ⓘ |
| meaning | great progenitor ⓘ |
| posthumousTitleType | 廟號 ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
世祖
ⓘ
太宗 ⓘ
linked to:
Emperor Taizong of Tang
高祖 ⓘ |
| titleOf | 中國古代君主 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
王朝奠基者
ⓘ
開國君主 ⓘ
linked to:
太祖
|
| usedInCulture | 東亞君主稱號體系 ⓘ |
| usedInDynasty |
商朝
ⓘ
linked to:
Shang dynasty
|
| usedInReligion | 中國傳統宗教祭祀 ⓘ |
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: 太祖 Description of subject: 太祖 is the posthumous temple name honoring Tang of Shang, the founding king of China’s Shang dynasty.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.