Guo clan
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The Guo clan was a powerful Chinese noble family that served as the ruling house of the Later Zhou dynasty during the Five Dynasties period.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Guo clan canonical | 1 |
| Guo clan of Later Zhou | 1 |
| Guo family of Later Zhou | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8530866 — 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: Guo clan Context triple: [Later Zhou, rulingHouse, Guo clan]
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A.
Zhao clan
The Zhao clan was one of the powerful aristocratic lineages of ancient China that emerged as an independent state during the breakup of the Jin polity in the Warring States period.
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B.
Ronghang clan
The Ronghang clan is a lineage group within the Karbi community of Northeast India, recognized as one of its traditional clans.
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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.
Xiong clan
The Xiong clan was the hereditary noble family that provided the kings of the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the Zhou dynasty.
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E.
Zhuge clan
The Zhuge clan is a historically prominent Chinese family best known for producing the famed Three Kingdoms strategist Zhuge Liang and other notable scholars and officials.
- 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: Guo clan Target entity description: The Guo clan was a powerful Chinese noble family that served as the ruling house of the Later Zhou dynasty during the Five Dynasties period.
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A.
Zhao clan
The Zhao clan was one of the powerful aristocratic lineages of ancient China that emerged as an independent state during the breakup of the Jin polity in the Warring States period.
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B.
Ronghang clan
The Ronghang clan is a lineage group within the Karbi community of Northeast India, recognized as one of its traditional clans.
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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.
Xiong clan
The Xiong clan was the hereditary noble family that provided the kings of the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the Zhou dynasty.
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E.
Zhuge clan
The Zhuge clan is a historically prominent Chinese family best known for producing the famed Three Kingdoms strategist Zhuge Liang and other notable scholars and officials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese noble family
ⓘ
ruling house ⓘ |
| capitalDuringRule | Kaifeng ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| dynasticContext | Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period ⓘ |
| endOfLaterZhou | 960 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| founderOfDynasty | Guo Wei ⓘ |
| foundingOfLaterZhou | 951 ⓘ |
| governedTerritory |
Central Plains
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Plains region
|
| governmentTypeUnderRule | monarchy ⓘ |
| heldTitle | Emperor of Later Zhou ⓘ |
| historicalRole | unifier of North China ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| legacy | precursor to Song reunification of China ⓘ |
| notablePeriod |
Five Dynasties period
ⓘ
linked to:
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
|
| politicalPower | powerful ⓘ |
| predecessorDynasty |
Later Han
ⓘ
linked to:
Later Han (Five Dynasties)
|
| producedMonarch |
Guo Rong
ⓘ
Guo Wei ⓘ |
| region | North China ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Confucianism ⓘ Taoism ⓘ |
| rulingHouseOf | Later Zhou ⓘ |
| socialClass | hereditary aristocracy ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
imperial court
ⓘ
military leadership ⓘ |
| successorDynasty | Song dynasty ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 10th century ⓘ |
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: Guo clan Description of subject: The Guo clan was a powerful Chinese noble family that served as the ruling house of the Later Zhou dynasty during the Five Dynasties period.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Guo clan
linked to: Guo clan