Cao Fang
E730205
Cao Fang was an emperor of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for being a child ruler dominated by powerful regents such as Sima Yi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cao Fang canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8148092 — 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: Cao Fang Context triple: [Sima Yi, servedUnder, Cao Fang]
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A.
Cao Huan
Cao Huan was the final emperor of the Cao Wei state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, under whose reign Wei was ultimately usurped by the Jin dynasty.
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B.
Cao Xue
Cao Xue is a Chinese designer best known as the creator of Bing Dwen Dwen, the panda mascot of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
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C.
Gao Yin
Gao Yin was an emperor of the Northern Qi dynasty in ancient China, known for his brief and turbulent reign amid intense court intrigue and power struggles.
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D.
Sima Yan
Sima Yan was the founding emperor of the Jin dynasty in China, known for ending the Three Kingdoms period by unifying the realm after overthrowing the state of Cao Wei.
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E.
Cao Zhang
Cao Zhang was a military general and prince of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known as a son of warlord Cao Cao and a brother of the first Wei emperor, Cao Pi.
- 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: Cao Fang Target entity description: Cao Fang was an emperor of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for being a child ruler dominated by powerful regents such as Sima Yi.
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A.
Cao Huan
Cao Huan was the final emperor of the Cao Wei state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, under whose reign Wei was ultimately usurped by the Jin dynasty.
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B.
Cao Xue
Cao Xue is a Chinese designer best known as the creator of Bing Dwen Dwen, the panda mascot of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
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C.
Gao Yin
Gao Yin was an emperor of the Northern Qi dynasty in ancient China, known for his brief and turbulent reign amid intense court intrigue and power struggles.
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D.
Sima Yan
Sima Yan was the founding emperor of the Jin dynasty in China, known for ending the Three Kingdoms period by unifying the realm after overthrowing the state of Cao Wei.
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E.
Cao Zhang
Cao Zhang was a military general and prince of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known as a son of warlord Cao Cao and a brother of the first Wei emperor, Cao Pi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cao Wei emperor
ⓘ
Chinese monarch ⓘ emperor ⓘ |
| abdicated | true ⓘ |
| abdicatedInFavorOf | Cao Mao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adoptiveFather | Cao Rui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ascendedThroneAsChild | true ⓘ |
| birthCentury | 3rd century ⓘ |
| cameToPowerYear | 239 ⓘ |
| capitalDuringReign | Luoyang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Cao Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| courtesyName | Lanqing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCentury | 3rd century ⓘ |
| deposedBy | Sima Shi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Cao Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Three Kingdoms period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Cao Kai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Fang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfather | Cao Zhang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| greatGrandfather | Cao Cao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 3rd-century Chinese history ⓘ |
| house | Cao clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| lostPowerYear | 254 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a child emperor dominated by regents
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reign under control of Sima clan ⓘ |
| personalName | Cao Fang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posthumousName | Li Gong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Cao Rui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| realm | Northern China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn |
Book of Jin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Records of the Three Kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regent |
Cao Shuang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sima Shi NERFINISHED ⓘ Sima Yi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignTitle |
Jiaping
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Zhengshi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Chinese folk religion ⓘ |
| successor | Cao Mao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| templeName | none ⓘ |
| title |
Duke of Shaoling
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emperor of Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince of Qi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasPuppetRuler | true ⓘ |
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: Cao Fang Description of subject: Cao Fang was an emperor of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for being a child ruler dominated by powerful regents such as Sima Yi.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.