Emperor Xuan of Jin
E796970
Emperor Xuan of Jin is the posthumous imperial title given to Sima Yi, the powerful Cao Wei regent whose descendants founded and ruled the Jin dynasty in China.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emperor Xuan of Jin canonical | 2 |
| Emperor Wu of Jin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8148110 — 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: Emperor Xuan of Jin Context triple: [Sima Yi, posthumousTitle, Emperor Xuan of Jin]
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A.
Emperor Wu of Jin
Emperor Wu of Jin was the founding emperor of China’s Western Jin dynasty, known for briefly reuniting the country after the Three Kingdoms period.
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B.
Emperor Min of Jin
Emperor Min of Jin was the final emperor of the Western Jin dynasty, whose brief and turbulent reign ended with his capture and the dynasty’s collapse during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.
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C.
Emperor Bing of Song
Emperor Bing of Song was the final ruler of the Southern Song dynasty, remembered for his brief reign as a child emperor and his death during the dynasty’s collapse to the Mongol-led Yuan forces.
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D.
Emperor Yuan of Wei
Emperor Yuan of Wei was the final emperor of the Cao Wei state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, whose reign ended with the dynasty’s usurpation by the Jin.
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E.
Emperor Gao
Emperor Gao was the posthumous title of Liu Bang, the founding emperor of China’s Han dynasty who rose from peasant origins to unify the country after the Qin collapse.
- 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: Emperor Xuan of Jin Target entity description: Emperor Xuan of Jin is the posthumous imperial title given to Sima Yi, the powerful Cao Wei regent whose descendants founded and ruled the Jin dynasty in China.
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A.
Emperor Wu of Jin
Emperor Wu of Jin was the founding emperor of China’s Western Jin dynasty, known for briefly reuniting the country after the Three Kingdoms period.
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B.
Emperor Min of Jin
Emperor Min of Jin was the final emperor of the Western Jin dynasty, whose brief and turbulent reign ended with his capture and the dynasty’s collapse during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.
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C.
Emperor Bing of Song
Emperor Bing of Song was the final ruler of the Southern Song dynasty, remembered for his brief reign as a child emperor and his death during the dynasty’s collapse to the Mongol-led Yuan forces.
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D.
Emperor Yuan of Wei
Emperor Yuan of Wei was the final emperor of the Cao Wei state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, whose reign ended with the dynasty’s usurpation by the Jin.
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E.
Emperor Gao
Emperor Gao was the posthumous title of Liu Bang, the founding emperor of China’s Han dynasty who rose from peasant origins to unify the country after the Qin collapse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese imperial title
ⓘ
Chinese statesman ⓘ military general ⓘ person ⓘ posthumous title ⓘ regent ⓘ |
| ancestorOf | Sima Yan ⓘ |
| appliedTo | Sima Yi ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty |
Jin dynasty (266–420)
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Jin dynasty
|
| associatedWithState | Cao Wei ⓘ |
| bornIn |
Henan
ⓘ
linked to:
Henan Province
Wen County ⓘ
linked to:
Wei County
|
| category |
Jin dynasty emperors
ⓘ
Posthumous Chinese imperial titles ⓘ Three Kingdoms-era figures honored as emperors ⓘ |
| clan | Sima clan ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Cao Wei ⓘ |
| courtesyName | Zhongda ⓘ |
| culture | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| dynasty | Jin dynasty ⓘ |
| era |
Three Kingdoms period
ⓘ
Three Kingdoms period ⓘ |
| fatherOf |
Sima Shi
ⓘ
Sima Zhao ⓘ |
| grantedBy |
Jin dynasty imperial court
ⓘ
linked to:
Jin imperial court
|
| hasFamilyTempleName | Xuan ⓘ |
| heldOffice |
General-in-Chief of Cao Wei
ⓘ
Grand Commandant of Cao Wei ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Commandant of Wei
regent of Cao Wei ⓘ |
| honors | Sima clan ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
laying foundations for the Jin dynasty
ⓘ
seizing de facto control of Cao Wei ⓘ |
| posthumousNameOf | Sima Yi ⓘ |
| posthumousRank | emperor ⓘ |
| posthumousTitle | Emperor Xuan of Jin ⓘ |
| region |
Northern China
ⓘ
linked to:
North China
|
| regnalStatus | posthumous emperor ⓘ |
| relatedDynasty |
Cao Wei
ⓘ
Jin dynasty (266–420) ⓘ
linked to:
Western Jin dynasty
|
| religion | Chinese folk religion ⓘ |
| script | Chinese characters ⓘ |
| servedState | Cao Wei ⓘ |
| titleHolderRole | emperor ⓘ |
| usedFor | ancestral veneration ⓘ |
| usedIn | imperial genealogies ⓘ |
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: Emperor Xuan of Jin Description of subject: Emperor Xuan of Jin is the posthumous imperial title given to Sima Yi, the powerful Cao Wei regent whose descendants founded and ruled the Jin dynasty in China.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.