Four Dragon Kings
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The Four Dragon Kings are powerful mythological deities in East Asian tradition who each rule over one of the four seas and control rain and water.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dragon Kings of the Four Seas | 1 |
| Four Dragon Kings canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8798916 — 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: Four Dragon Kings Context triple: [Dragon King, hasSubdivision, Four Dragon Kings]
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A.
Nine Dragons
"Nine Dragons" is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch as he investigates a case that takes him from Los Angeles to Hong Kong.
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B.
League of Dragons
League of Dragons is a historical fantasy novel by Naomi Novik that concludes her Temeraire series, blending Napoleonic-era warfare with an alternate history of intelligent dragons.
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C.
The Dragon
The Dragon is the legendary Chinese table tennis player Ma Long, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most dominant players in the sport’s history.
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D.
The Dragon
"The Dragon" is a track from Vangelis's 1979 electronic music album "China," blending synthesizer-driven soundscapes with an evocative, atmospheric style.
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E.
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon is a fantasy adventure novel by Isabel Allende that follows a young explorer and his companions on a mystical journey through a remote Himalayan kingdom.
- 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: Four Dragon Kings Target entity description: The Four Dragon Kings are powerful mythological deities in East Asian tradition who each rule over one of the four seas and control rain and water.
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A.
Nine Dragons
"Nine Dragons" is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch as he investigates a case that takes him from Los Angeles to Hong Kong.
-
B.
League of Dragons
League of Dragons is a historical fantasy novel by Naomi Novik that concludes her Temeraire series, blending Napoleonic-era warfare with an alternate history of intelligent dragons.
-
C.
The Dragon
The Dragon is the legendary Chinese table tennis player Ma Long, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most dominant players in the sport’s history.
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D.
The Dragon
"The Dragon" is a track from Vangelis's 1979 electronic music album "China," blending synthesizer-driven soundscapes with an evocative, atmospheric style.
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E.
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon is a fantasy adventure novel by Isabel Allende that follows a young explorer and his companions on a mystical journey through a remote Himalayan kingdom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese mythological figures
ⓘ
dragon gods ⓘ mythological group of deities ⓘ rain deities ⓘ water deities ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Chinese temple murals
ⓘ
Journey to the West ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
drought relief
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floods ⓘ rain ⓘ sea ⓘ storms ⓘ |
| cosmologicalRole | guardians of the cardinal directions over the seas ⓘ |
| culture | East Asian ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
dragon-headed humanoid figures
ⓘ
dragons ⓘ |
| domain |
East Sea
ⓘ
North Sea ⓘ South Sea ⓘ
linked to:
South Seas
West Sea ⓘ |
| function |
bringing rain for agriculture
ⓘ
protecting sailors and fishermen ⓘ punishing humans with storms or floods ⓘ |
| hasTempleCult | Dragon King temples ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Longwang ⓘ |
| influencedBy | ancient Chinese dragon worship ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Chinese ⓘ |
| member |
Ao Guang
ⓘ
Ao Qin ⓘ Ao Run ⓘ Ao Shun ⓘ |
| mythologicalOrigin | Chinese mythology ⓘ |
| numberOfMembers | 4 ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Dragon King
ⓘ
Nāga ⓘ
linked to:
Nagas
|
| religion |
Chinese folk religion
ⓘ
Mahayana Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Mahayana
Taoism ⓘ |
| rituals |
offerings of incense and food
ⓘ
rain-invocation ceremonies ⓘ |
| role |
controllers of rain
ⓘ
controllers of water ⓘ rulers of the four seas ⓘ |
| symbol |
control over natural waters
ⓘ
imperial authority over the seas ⓘ |
| title |
Dragon Kings of the Four Seas
ⓘ
linked to:
Four Dragon Kings
|
| worshipedIn |
China
ⓘ
Japan ⓘ Korea ⓘ Vietnam ⓘ
linked to:
Viet Nam
|
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: Four Dragon Kings Description of subject: The Four Dragon Kings are powerful mythological deities in East Asian tradition who each rule over one of the four seas and control rain and water.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Four Dragon Kings