Fa of Wei
E741769
Fa of Wei was an influential early Chinese legal code from the Warring States period that helped shape the development of Legalist thought and later imperial law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fa of Wei canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8531045 — 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: Fa of Wei Context triple: [State of Wei, legalCode, Fa of Wei]
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A.
Cao Wei
Cao Wei was a powerful Chinese state founded by the Cao family that ruled northern China during the Three Kingdoms period following the fall of the Han dynasty.
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B.
Fan Wei
Fan Wei is a Chinese entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the multinational conglomerate Fosun International.
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C.
Fan Wei
Fan Wei is a mathematician known for his research in combinatorics and related areas, and for being a doctoral student of Fan Chung.
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D.
Fa Zhou
Fa Zhou is Mulan’s elderly, honorable father and a former soldier whose injury and devotion to family drive much of the film’s emotional conflict.
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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: Fa of Wei Target entity description: Fa of Wei was an influential early Chinese legal code from the Warring States period that helped shape the development of Legalist thought and later imperial law.
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A.
Cao Wei
Cao Wei was a powerful Chinese state founded by the Cao family that ruled northern China during the Three Kingdoms period following the fall of the Han dynasty.
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B.
Fan Wei
Fan Wei is a Chinese entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the multinational conglomerate Fosun International.
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C.
Fan Wei
Fan Wei is a mathematician known for his research in combinatorics and related areas, and for being a doctoral student of Fan Chung.
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D.
Fa Zhou
Fa Zhou is Mulan’s elderly, honorable father and a former soldier whose injury and devotion to family drive much of the film’s emotional conflict.
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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 (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Chinese text
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legal code ⓘ |
| aimedAt | enhancing military and administrative efficiency ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Legalist reformers of the State of Wei ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | State of Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developedInContextOf | interstate competition in Warring States China ⓘ |
| hasLegalConcept |
centralized authority
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codified statutes ⓘ fixed punishments ⓘ impersonal application of law ⓘ rule by law ⓘ standardized procedures ⓘ |
| hasLegalDomain |
administrative law
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criminal law ⓘ penal law ⓘ |
| hasLegalPhilosophy | Legalist thought NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalFunction |
maintaining social order
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regulating officials ⓘ strengthening state power ⓘ |
| hasReputation | influential early Chinese legal code ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
early model for Legalist codification
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precursor to Qin and Han codes ⓘ |
| influenced |
Han imperial law
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Qin legal system ⓘ later imperial Chinese legal codes ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| legalTradition | Legalism ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod | Warring States period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Ancient China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Fa of Wei Description of subject: Fa of Wei was an influential early Chinese legal code from the Warring States period that helped shape the development of Legalist thought and later imperial law.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
State of Wei