Zao Jun
E759821
Zao Jun is a household deity in Chinese folk religion and Taoism who oversees the moral conduct of families and reports to the Jade Emperor, especially around the Lunar New Year.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zao Jun canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8798873 — 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: Zao Jun Context triple: [Kitchen God, alsoKnownAs, Zao Jun]
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A.
Zhen Ji
Zhen Ji was a renowned noblewoman of the late Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms period, celebrated for her beauty and tragic life as a consort within the Cao Wei court.
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B.
Zhu Xijuan
Zhu Xijuan is a Chinese actress best known for her leading role in the classic 1964 film "The Red Detachment of Women."
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C.
Shen Dao
Shen Dao is the ceremonial spirit road leading to the Ming Tombs near Beijing, lined with stone statues and monuments that honor deceased emperors.
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D.
Ban Shu
Ban Shu is a legendary figure from Chinese historical romance, often depicted as a courageous and intelligent woman navigating court politics and personal relationships in ancient China.
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E.
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.
- 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: Zao Jun Target entity description: Zao Jun is a household deity in Chinese folk religion and Taoism who oversees the moral conduct of families and reports to the Jade Emperor, especially around the Lunar New Year.
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A.
Zhen Ji
Zhen Ji was a renowned noblewoman of the late Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms period, celebrated for her beauty and tragic life as a consort within the Cao Wei court.
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B.
Zhu Xijuan
Zhu Xijuan is a Chinese actress best known for her leading role in the classic 1964 film "The Red Detachment of Women."
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C.
Shen Dao
Shen Dao is the ceremonial spirit road leading to the Ming Tombs near Beijing, lined with stone statues and monuments that honor deceased emperors.
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D.
Ban Shu
Ban Shu is a legendary figure from Chinese historical romance, often depicted as a courageous and intelligent woman navigating court politics and personal relationships in ancient China.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
household deity
ⓘ
kitchen god ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Chinese New Year customs
ⓘ
Jade Emperor ⓘ domestic morality ⓘ |
| cultCenter | domestic altars ⓘ |
| cultMedium |
food offerings
ⓘ
incense offerings ⓘ paper effigies ⓘ |
| domain |
household
ⓘ
kitchen ⓘ |
| festival |
Little New Year
ⓘ
Lunar New Year ⓘ
linked to:
Spring Festival
|
| function |
records household deeds
ⓘ
reports annually to the Jade Emperor ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Zao Jun’s wife ⓘ |
| influences |
fortune of the household in the coming year
ⓘ
heavenly judgment of a family ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Chinese ⓘ |
| mythologicalType | domestic protector deity ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
domestic virtue
ⓘ
moral retribution ⓘ |
| offeringType |
cakes
ⓘ
sweets ⓘ tea ⓘ wine ⓘ |
| religion |
Chinese folk religion
ⓘ
Taoism ⓘ |
| ritual |
burning of his paper image to send report to heaven
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household offerings before Lunar New Year ⓘ smearing sweets on his image to sweeten his report ⓘ |
| role |
oversees moral conduct of families
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reports on human behavior to the Jade Emperor ⓘ |
| spouseRole | assists in watching over the household ⓘ |
| symbol |
couplets or inscriptions near the stove
ⓘ
paper image in the kitchen ⓘ |
| timeOfReport | end of the lunar year ⓘ |
| title |
God of the Hearth
ⓘ
Kitchen God ⓘ Stove God ⓘ |
| transliterationVariant |
Kitchen God (English)
ⓘ
linked to:
Kitchen God
Zao Shen ⓘ Zaoshen ⓘ
linked to:
Zao Shen
|
| worshipedIn |
China
ⓘ
Chinese diaspora communities ⓘ |
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: Zao Jun Description of subject: Zao Jun is a household deity in Chinese folk religion and Taoism who oversees the moral conduct of families and reports to the Jade Emperor, especially around the Lunar New Year.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.