Meng Wu
E747972
Meng Wu was a prominent Qin general who played a key role in the military campaigns that unified China under the Qin dynasty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Meng Wu canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7984460 — 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: Meng Wu Context triple: [Qin conquest of rival states, hasCommander, Meng Wu]
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A.
He Jian
He Jian was a prominent Chinese Nationalist military commander and politician active during the early to mid-20th century.
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B.
Sun Wan
Sun Wan is a lesser-known member of the prominent Sun family of modern Chinese politics, related to Sun Fo and thus part of the lineage of revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen.
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C.
Jiang Wan
Jiang Wan was a prominent statesman and regent of the Shu Han kingdom during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for succeeding Zhuge Liang in overseeing state affairs.
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D.
Zhu Youjiao
Zhu Youjiao, better known as the Tianqi Emperor, was a late Ming dynasty ruler whose short and troubled reign was dominated by the powerful eunuch Wei Zhongxian and marked by political corruption and decline.
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E.
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.
- 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: Meng Wu Target entity description: Meng Wu was a prominent Qin general who played a key role in the military campaigns that unified China under the Qin dynasty.
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A.
He Jian
He Jian was a prominent Chinese Nationalist military commander and politician active during the early to mid-20th century.
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B.
Sun Wan
Sun Wan is a lesser-known member of the prominent Sun family of modern Chinese politics, related to Sun Fo and thus part of the lineage of revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen.
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C.
Jiang Wan
Jiang Wan was a prominent statesman and regent of the Shu Han kingdom during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for succeeding Zhuge Liang in overseeing state affairs.
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D.
Zhu Youjiao
Zhu Youjiao, better known as the Tianqi Emperor, was a late Ming dynasty ruler whose short and troubled reign was dominated by the powerful eunuch Wei Zhongxian and marked by political corruption and decline.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Qin general
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military commander ⓘ |
| activeDuring | late 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| allegiance | Qin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | unification of China under Qin ⓘ |
| child | Meng Tian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Qin state NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Qin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Chinese ⓘ |
| father | Meng Ao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Ancient China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSource | Records of the Grand Historian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to Qin territorial expansion
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helping establish the Qin dynasty’s control over rival states ⓘ |
| language | Old Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Qin army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Meng military family of Qin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in Qin military campaigns to unify China ⓘ |
| occupation | general ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Qin conquest of Chu
NERFINISHED
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Qin wars of unification NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorInFamilyLine | Meng Ao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
King Zheng of Qin
NERFINISHED
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Qin Shi Huang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorInFamilyLine | Meng Tian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Warring States period 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: Meng Wu Description of subject: Meng Wu was a prominent Qin general who played a key role in the military campaigns that unified China under the Qin dynasty.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.