Mo Yan
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Mo Yan is a Chinese novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate known for his hallucinatory realism and works such as "Red Sorghum."
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592321 — 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: Mo Yan Context triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, Mo Yan]
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Ha Jin
Ha Jin is a Chinese American novelist and poet renowned for his works exploring the Cultural Revolution and immigrant experiences, including the National Book Award–winning novel "Waiting."
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Feng Jicai
Feng Jicai is a prominent Chinese writer, cultural scholar, and preservationist known for his fiction and his efforts to protect China's urban and folk cultural heritage.
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C.
Mao Dun
Mao Dun was a prominent 20th-century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and one of the leading figures of modern Chinese literature.
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D.
Liao Yiwu
Liao Yiwu is a Chinese writer, poet, and dissident known for his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government and his works documenting the lives of marginalized people in China.
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E.
Jiang Rong
Jiang Rong is a Chinese writer best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "Wolf Totem," which explores the culture of the Mongolian grasslands and the tension between tradition and modernization.
- 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: Mo Yan Target entity description: Mo Yan is a Chinese novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate known for his hallucinatory realism and works such as "Red Sorghum."
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A.
Ha Jin
Ha Jin is a Chinese American novelist and poet renowned for his works exploring the Cultural Revolution and immigrant experiences, including the National Book Award–winning novel "Waiting."
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B.
Feng Jicai
Feng Jicai is a prominent Chinese writer, cultural scholar, and preservationist known for his fiction and his efforts to protect China's urban and folk cultural heritage.
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C.
Mao Dun
Mao Dun was a prominent 20th-century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and one of the leading figures of modern Chinese literature.
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D.
Liao Yiwu
Liao Yiwu is a Chinese writer, poet, and dissident known for his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government and his works documenting the lives of marginalized people in China.
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E.
Jiang Rong
Jiang Rong is a Chinese writer best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "Wolf Totem," which explores the culture of the Mongolian grasslands and the tension between tradition and modernization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Mo Yan Description of subject: Mo Yan is a Chinese novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate known for his hallucinatory realism and works such as "Red Sorghum."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mo Yan