Yelü clan
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The Yelü clan was the ruling Khitan noble family that founded and governed the Liao dynasty in northern China and parts of Inner Asia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yelü clan canonical | 3 |
| Imperial House of Liao | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8295226 — 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: Yelü clan Context triple: [Liao dynasty, dynasticHouse, Yelü clan]
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A.
Mongol imperial family
The Mongol imperial family was the ruling dynasty descended from Genghis Khan that governed the Mongol Empire and its successor states across Eurasia.
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B.
Wei clan
The Wei clan was one of the powerful aristocratic lineages that emerged as an independent state during the breakup of the ancient Chinese kingdom of Jin.
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C.
Sima clan
The Sima clan was a powerful Chinese family that rose to dominance as regents of the Cao Wei state and ultimately founded the Jin dynasty, unifying China in the 3rd century.
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D.
Mengsun clan
The Mengsun clan was one of the prominent aristocratic lineages in the ancient Chinese State of Lu, influential in its political and social affairs.
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E.
Liao dynasty
The Liao dynasty was a Khitan-led imperial dynasty that ruled parts of northern China, Mongolia, and Manchuria from the 10th to 12th centuries, playing a major role in East Asian politics alongside the Song 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: Yelü clan Target entity description: The Yelü clan was the ruling Khitan noble family that founded and governed the Liao dynasty in northern China and parts of Inner Asia.
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A.
Mongol imperial family
The Mongol imperial family was the ruling dynasty descended from Genghis Khan that governed the Mongol Empire and its successor states across Eurasia.
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B.
Wei clan
The Wei clan was one of the powerful aristocratic lineages that emerged as an independent state during the breakup of the ancient Chinese kingdom of Jin.
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C.
Sima clan
The Sima clan was a powerful Chinese family that rose to dominance as regents of the Cao Wei state and ultimately founded the Jin dynasty, unifying China in the 3rd century.
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D.
Mengsun clan
The Mengsun clan was one of the prominent aristocratic lineages in the ancient Chinese State of Lu, influential in its political and social affairs.
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E.
Liao dynasty
The Liao dynasty was a Khitan-led imperial dynasty that ruled parts of northern China, Mongolia, and Manchuria from the 10th to 12th centuries, playing a major role in East Asian politics alongside the Song dynasty.
- 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: Yelü clan Description of subject: The Yelü clan was the ruling Khitan noble family that founded and governed the Liao dynasty in northern China and parts of Inner Asia.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yelü clan