Gaozu
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Gaozu is the posthumous temple name honoring the influential Cao Wei statesman and strategist Sima Yi, later revered as a dynastic founder figure.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gaozu canonical | 2 |
| Gaozu of Jin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8148111 — 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: Gaozu Context triple: [Sima Yi, templeName, Gaozu]
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A.
Emperor Gaozu of Han
Emperor Gaozu of Han was the founder and first emperor of China’s Han dynasty, rising from peasant origins to unify the country after the collapse of the Qin.
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B.
Emperor Wen
Emperor Wen is the posthumous imperial title of Cao Pi, the founding emperor of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period.
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C.
Emperor Wen
Emperor Wen is the posthumous temple name honoring Emperor Taizong of the Song dynasty, reflecting his legacy as a key consolidator of early Song rule in China.
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D.
Taizu
Taizu is the temple name of the Hongwu Emperor, the founding ruler of China’s Ming dynasty.
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E.
Taizu
Taizu is the temple name given to Tang of Shang, the founding king of China’s Shang 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: Gaozu Target entity description: Gaozu is the posthumous temple name honoring the influential Cao Wei statesman and strategist Sima Yi, later revered as a dynastic founder figure.
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A.
Emperor Gaozu of Han
Emperor Gaozu of Han was the founder and first emperor of China’s Han dynasty, rising from peasant origins to unify the country after the collapse of the Qin.
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B.
Emperor Wen
Emperor Wen is the posthumous imperial title of Cao Pi, the founding emperor of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period.
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C.
Emperor Wen
Emperor Wen is the posthumous temple name honoring Emperor Taizong of the Song dynasty, reflecting his legacy as a key consolidator of early Song rule in China.
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D.
Taizu
Taizu is the temple name of the Hongwu Emperor, the founding ruler of China’s Ming dynasty.
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E.
Taizu
Taizu is the temple name given to Tang of Shang, the founding king of China’s Shang dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | posthumous temple name ⓘ |
| appliedIn | Cao Wei ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty | Jin dynasty ⓘ |
| category |
Chinese temple names
ⓘ
Posthumous honorific titles ⓘ |
| commemorates | Sima Yi’s foundational contribution to Jin power ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Chinese imperial ancestral cult ⓘ |
| etymologicalComponents | Gao (high, exalted) + Zu (ancestor, progenitor) ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Three Kingdoms period
ⓘ
Western Jin ⓘ
linked to:
Western Jin dynasty
|
| honorificForHouse | Sima clan ⓘ |
| honorificForRegime | Cao Wei ⓘ |
| honorificForRole |
statesman
ⓘ
strategist ⓘ |
| honorificFunction | elevate political and moral status ⓘ |
| honorificPurpose | legitimize Sima family rule ⓘ |
| honors | Sima Yi ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| linkedTo | founding of Jin by Sima Yan ⓘ |
| memorializes | founder-like status of Sima Yi ⓘ |
| posthumousNature | granted after death ⓘ |
| posthumousStatus | honorific ⓘ |
| refersTo | Sima Yi ⓘ |
| region | China ⓘ |
| religiousContext | state Confucian ritual ⓘ |
| semanticField | founding ancestor ⓘ |
| titleType | temple name ⓘ |
| usedFor | dynastic founder figure ⓘ |
| usedIn | ancestral temple rites ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Chinese characters ⓘ |
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: Gaozu Description of subject: Gaozu is the posthumous temple name honoring the influential Cao Wei statesman and strategist Sima Yi, later revered as a dynastic founder figure.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Emperor Wen