Xuan
E719814
Xuan is the posthumous honorific title given to the influential Cao Wei general and statesman Sima Yi, who played a key role in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Xuan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8148109 — 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: Xuan Context triple: [Sima Yi, posthumousName, Xuan]
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A.
Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
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Xuanhu
Xuanhu is the art name of Xu Guangqi, a prominent late Ming dynasty scholar-official, scientist, and collaborator of Matteo Ricci in introducing Western science to China.
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C.
Xue
Xue is a Chinese surname borne by various notable historical and contemporary figures.
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D.
Xuanhe
Xuanhe was an era name used during the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song dynasty, marking a specific period in early 12th-century Chinese imperial history.
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E.
Yuanzhen
Yuanzhen was the Chinese era name used during the reign of Temür Khan, the second emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
- 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: Xuan Target entity description: Xuan is the posthumous honorific title given to the influential Cao Wei general and statesman Sima Yi, who played a key role in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.
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A.
Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
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B.
Xuanhu
Xuanhu is the art name of Xu Guangqi, a prominent late Ming dynasty scholar-official, scientist, and collaborator of Matteo Ricci in introducing Western science to China.
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C.
Xue
Xue is a Chinese surname borne by various notable historical and contemporary figures.
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D.
Xuanhe
Xuanhe was an era name used during the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song dynasty, marking a specific period in early 12th-century Chinese imperial history.
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E.
Yuanzhen
Yuanzhen was the Chinese era name used during the reign of Temür Khan, the second emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | posthumous honorific title ⓘ |
| appliedTo | Sima Yi ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty | Cao Wei ⓘ |
| associatedState | Cao Wei ⓘ |
| category |
Chinese honorific titles
ⓘ
Posthumous titles in China ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalSphere | East Asia ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Three Kingdoms period ⓘ |
| honorificType | posthumous name ⓘ |
| honors | Sima Yi ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| namingTradition | Chinese posthumous naming system ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Sima Yi ⓘ |
| posthumousTitleOf | Sima Yi ⓘ |
| script | Chinese characters ⓘ |
| usedFor | commemorating Sima Yi ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Cao Wei
ⓘ
Three Kingdoms period ⓘ |
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: Xuan Description of subject: Xuan is the posthumous honorific title given to the influential Cao Wei general and statesman Sima Yi, who played a key role in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.