Dali
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Dali was an era name used during the reign of Emperor Daizong in China’s Tang dynasty.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dali canonical | 3 |
| Dali (second use) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9208920 — 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: Dali Context triple: [Emperor Daizong of Tang, eraName, Dali]
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A.
Dali
Dali is a historic city in southwestern China known for its well-preserved ancient town, Bai ethnic culture, and scenic setting between Erhai Lake and the Cangshan Mountains.
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B.
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his dreamlike, bizarre imagery and technical virtuosity in paintings such as "The Persistence of Memory."
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C.
Joan Miró
Joan Miró was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist renowned for his pioneering surrealist works characterized by bold colors, biomorphic forms, and a playful, dreamlike abstraction.
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D.
Gala Dalí
Gala Dalí was a Russian-born muse, model, and manager who became the central inspiration and lifelong partner of surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
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E.
Santiago Rusiñol
Santiago Rusiñol was a Catalan painter, writer, and playwright who became one of the leading figures of the Modernisme movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Barcelona.
- 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: Dali Target entity description: Dali was an era name used during the reign of Emperor Daizong in China’s Tang dynasty.
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A.
Dali
Dali is a historic city in southwestern China known for its well-preserved ancient town, Bai ethnic culture, and scenic setting between Erhai Lake and the Cangshan Mountains.
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B.
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his dreamlike, bizarre imagery and technical virtuosity in paintings such as "The Persistence of Memory."
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C.
Joan Miró
Joan Miró was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist renowned for his pioneering surrealist works characterized by bold colors, biomorphic forms, and a playful, dreamlike abstraction.
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D.
Gala Dalí
Gala Dalí was a Russian-born muse, model, and manager who became the central inspiration and lifelong partner of surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
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E.
Santiago Rusiñol
Santiago Rusiñol was a Catalan painter, writer, and playwright who became one of the leading figures of the Modernisme movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Barcelona.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese era name
ⓘ
historical era ⓘ |
| associatedCapital |
Chang’an
ⓘ
linked to:
Chang'an
|
| calendarSystem |
Chinese calendar
ⓘ
linked to:
traditional Chinese calendar
|
| country | China ⓘ |
| emperorPersonalName | Li Yu ⓘ |
| emperorTempleName | Daizong ⓘ |
| endDate | June 779 ⓘ |
| endYear | 779 ⓘ |
| eraNameInChinese | 大曆 ⓘ |
| eraNumberingWithinDynasty | one of the era names of the Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| follows | Baoying ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 8th century ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeOf |
Middle Tang period
ⓘ
linked to:
Tang dynasty
|
| precedes |
Dali (Daizong) → Jianzhong
ⓘ
linked to:
Jianzhong
|
| region | East Asia ⓘ |
| reignOf | Emperor Daizong of Tang ⓘ |
| romanization | Dàlì ⓘ |
| startDate | February 766 ⓘ |
| startYear | 766 ⓘ |
| usedAlongside | contemporary Japanese and Korean era systems (for diplomatic dating) ⓘ |
| usedBy | Emperor Daizong of Tang ⓘ |
| usedFor | regnal years numbering ⓘ |
| usedIn |
dated Buddhist texts
ⓘ
imperial decrees ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ official documents ⓘ |
| usedInDynasty | Tang dynasty ⓘ |
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: Dali Description of subject: Dali was an era name used during the reign of Emperor Daizong in China’s Tang dynasty.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.