Sima Shi
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Sima Shi was a powerful 3rd-century Chinese general and regent of the Cao Wei state who, as a leading member of the Sima clan, laid crucial groundwork for the eventual establishment of the Jin dynasty.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7877865 — 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: Sima Shi Context triple: [Cao Wei, deFactoControlBy, Sima Shi]
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Sima Yi
Sima Yi was a prominent Chinese military strategist and statesman who played a pivotal role in the rise of the Cao Wei state during the late Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms period.
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Sun Liang
Sun Liang was a young emperor of Eastern Wu during China’s Three Kingdoms period, whose short and turbulent reign was dominated by powerful regents.
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C.
Sun Ji
Sun Ji is a Chinese professional footballer best known for his time as a defender with Hangzhou Greentown F.C.
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Zhuge Jin
Zhuge Jin was a prominent statesman and military general of the Eastern Wu kingdom during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known also as the elder brother of the famed strategist Zhuge Liang.
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Jiang Wei
Jiang Wei was a prominent Shu Han general and strategist during China’s Three Kingdoms era, known for continuing Zhuge Liang’s northern campaigns against the state of Wei.
- 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: Sima Shi Target entity description: Sima Shi was a powerful 3rd-century Chinese general and regent of the Cao Wei state who, as a leading member of the Sima clan, laid crucial groundwork for the eventual establishment of the Jin dynasty.
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A.
Sima Yi
Sima Yi was a prominent Chinese military strategist and statesman who played a pivotal role in the rise of the Cao Wei state during the late Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms period.
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B.
Sun Liang
Sun Liang was a young emperor of Eastern Wu during China’s Three Kingdoms period, whose short and turbulent reign was dominated by powerful regents.
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C.
Sun Ji
Sun Ji is a Chinese professional footballer best known for his time as a defender with Hangzhou Greentown F.C.
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Zhuge Jin
Zhuge Jin was a prominent statesman and military general of the Eastern Wu kingdom during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known also as the elder brother of the famed strategist Zhuge Liang.
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Jiang Wei
Jiang Wei was a prominent Shu Han general and strategist during China’s Three Kingdoms era, known for continuing Zhuge Liang’s northern campaigns against the state of Wei.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
3rd-century Chinese person
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Cao Wei politician ⓘ Chinese general ⓘ member of the Sima clan ⓘ regent ⓘ |
| actualPowerHolderOver |
Cao Wei imperial court
ⓘ
linked to:
imperial court of Cao Wei
|
| birthYear | 208 ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Shangluo region (near Luoyang)
ⓘ
linked to:
Henan–Shaanxi border region
|
| causeOfDeath | illness following eye surgery complications ⓘ |
| clan | Sima clan ⓘ |
| contributedTo | consolidation of Sima clan power in Cao Wei ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Cao Wei ⓘ |
| courtesyName |
Ziyuan
ⓘ
子元 ⓘ |
| deathYear | 255 ⓘ |
| dynasty | Cao Wei ⓘ |
| era | Three Kingdoms period ⓘ |
| father | Sima Yi ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| heldOffice |
General-in-Chief of Cao Wei
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Grand Commandant of Cao Wei ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Commandant of Wei
Regent of Cao Wei ⓘ |
| historicalSource |
Book of Jin (Jin Shu)
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linked to:
Book of Jin
Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) ⓘ
linked to:
Records of the Three Kingdoms
|
| influenced | transition from Cao Wei to Jin dynasty ⓘ |
| knownFor |
centralizing authority under the Sima clan
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political ruthlessness ⓘ |
| loyalty | nominally to the Wei emperors ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| mother | Zhang Chunhua ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
deposed Emperor Cao Fang of Wei
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installed Cao Mao as emperor of Wei ⓘ seized control of the Cao Wei government after Sima Yi’s death ⓘ suppressed the rebellion of Guanqiu Jian and Wen Qin ⓘ |
| personalName | 司馬師 ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Xuchang ⓘ |
| posthumouslyHonouredBy | Jin dynasty ⓘ |
| posthumousName | Emperor Jing of Jin ⓘ |
| posthumousTitle | Jingdi ⓘ |
| powerBase | Luoyang ⓘ |
| predecessorInRegency | Sima Yi ⓘ |
| servedState | Cao Wei ⓘ |
| sibling | Sima Zhao ⓘ |
| spouse |
Xiahou Hui
ⓘ
Yang Huiyu ⓘ |
| stepmother | Lady Zhang (second wife of Sima Yi) ⓘ |
| successorInRegency | Sima Zhao ⓘ |
| timeInPower | c. 251–255 ⓘ |
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: Sima Shi Description of subject: Sima Shi was a powerful 3rd-century Chinese general and regent of the Cao Wei state who, as a leading member of the Sima clan, laid crucial groundwork for the eventual establishment of the Jin dynasty.
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