湯
E719279
湯 is the posthumous Chinese name of Tang of Shang, the legendary founder and first king of China’s Shang dynasty.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8202570 — 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: 湯 Context triple: [Tang of Shang, posthumousNameInChinese, 湯]
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A.
Tsang
Tsang is a Cantonese-derived romanization of the Chinese surname Zeng, commonly used in Hong Kong and among overseas Chinese communities.
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B.
Mirin
Mirin is a masculine given name of Irish origin, notably borne by Saint Mirin, a 6th-century Irish monk and missionary.
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C.
Unami
Unami is a dialect of the Lenape (Delaware) language historically spoken by the Lenape people in parts of the mid-Atlantic region of North America.
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D.
Nasuno
Nasuno is a Japanese Shinkansen train service that operates on the Tōhoku Shinkansen line, primarily providing all-stations or local high-speed service in the northern Kanto and southern Tōhoku regions.
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E.
Tehatta
Tehatta is a town in the Nadia district of the Indian state of West Bengal, known as a local administrative and commercial center for the surrounding rural region.
- 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: 湯 Target entity description: 湯 is the posthumous Chinese name of Tang of Shang, the legendary founder and first king of China’s Shang dynasty.
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A.
Tsang
Tsang is a Cantonese-derived romanization of the Chinese surname Zeng, commonly used in Hong Kong and among overseas Chinese communities.
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B.
Mirin
Mirin is a masculine given name of Irish origin, notably borne by Saint Mirin, a 6th-century Irish monk and missionary.
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C.
Unami
Unami is a dialect of the Lenape (Delaware) language historically spoken by the Lenape people in parts of the mid-Atlantic region of North America.
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D.
Nasuno
Nasuno is a Japanese Shinkansen train service that operates on the Tōhoku Shinkansen line, primarily providing all-stations or local high-speed service in the northern Kanto and southern Tōhoku regions.
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E.
Tehatta
Tehatta is a town in the Nadia district of the Indian state of West Bengal, known as a local administrative and commercial center for the surrounding rural region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese given name
ⓘ
Chinese surname ⓘ posthumous name ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Cheng Tang
ⓘ
Tang of Shang ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Bamboo Annals
ⓘ
Records of the Grand Historian ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty | Shang dynasty ⓘ |
| associatedPhilosophicalTradition | Confucian political thought ⓘ |
| associatedWithRole | founder of the Shang dynasty ⓘ |
| cangjieInput | EHRF ⓘ |
| cantonesePronunciation | tong1 ⓘ |
| country | ancient China ⓘ |
| culturalStatus | legendary ruler ⓘ |
| era | early 2nd millennium BCE (traditional dating) ⓘ |
| familyNameInLife |
Zi (子)
ⓘ
linked to:
Zi
|
| japaneseKunReading | ゆ (yu) ⓘ |
| japaneseOnReading | トウ (tō) ⓘ |
| knownFor | setting moral precedent for righteous rebellion in Chinese thought ⓘ |
| koreanReading | 탕 (tang) ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| mandarinPronunciation | tāng ⓘ |
| meaning |
hot water
ⓘ
soup ⓘ |
| notableFor | overthrowing the Xia dynasty (traditional history) ⓘ |
| posthumousNameOf |
商湯
ⓘ
linked to:
成湯
成湯 ⓘ 湯王 ⓘ
linked to:
成湯
|
| radical | 氵 ⓘ |
| romanization | Tang ⓘ |
| romanizationSystem | Hanyu Pinyin ⓘ |
| script | Chinese characters ⓘ |
| simplifiedForm | 汤 ⓘ |
| strokeCount | 12 ⓘ |
| templeName |
Taizu of Shang (商太祖)
ⓘ
linked to:
成湯
|
| title | King of Shang ⓘ |
| traditionalForm | 湯 ⓘ |
| unicodeCodePoint | U+6E6F ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
| usedFor | male given name ⓘ |
| vietnameseReading | thang ⓘ |
| virtueAttributed | benevolent rule ⓘ |
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: 湯 Description of subject: 湯 is the posthumous Chinese name of Tang of Shang, the legendary founder and first king of China’s Shang dynasty.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.