Yu Zuobai
E811008
Yu Zuobai was a Chinese warlord and political figure who led the Guangxi Clique during the turbulent Warlord Era of early 20th-century China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yu Zuobai canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8882116 — 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: Yu Zuobai Context triple: [Guangxi Clique, hasLeader, Yu Zuobai]
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A.
Wei Yunsong
Wei Yunsong was a Chinese military and political leader associated with the regional Guangxi warlord faction during the Republican era.
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B.
Yu Fengzhi
Yu Fengzhi was a Chinese educator and social activist best known as the wife of warlord Zhang Xueliang and for her later work promoting Chinese culture and education abroad.
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C.
Wen Yuansheng
Wen Yuansheng is a Chinese entrepreneur best known for founding Sany Heavy Industry, one of the world’s leading construction machinery manufacturers.
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D.
Lu Yanzhi
Lu Yanzhi was a Chinese architect best known for designing the monumental Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing.
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E.
Wang Yupu
Wang Yupu was a prominent Chinese petroleum engineer and business executive who served as chairman of Sinopec and later as head of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission.
- 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: Yu Zuobai Target entity description: Yu Zuobai was a Chinese warlord and political figure who led the Guangxi Clique during the turbulent Warlord Era of early 20th-century China.
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A.
Wei Yunsong
Wei Yunsong was a Chinese military and political leader associated with the regional Guangxi warlord faction during the Republican era.
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B.
Yu Fengzhi
Yu Fengzhi was a Chinese educator and social activist best known as the wife of warlord Zhang Xueliang and for her later work promoting Chinese culture and education abroad.
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C.
Wen Yuansheng
Wen Yuansheng is a Chinese entrepreneur best known for founding Sany Heavy Industry, one of the world’s leading construction machinery manufacturers.
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D.
Lu Yanzhi
Lu Yanzhi was a Chinese architect best known for designing the monumental Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing.
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E.
Wang Yupu
Wang Yupu was a prominent Chinese petroleum engineer and business executive who served as chairman of Sinopec and later as head of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese warlord
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | Warlord Era ⓘ |
| conflict | Chinese internal warlord conflicts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| era | early 20th-century China ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| hasRole | leader of the Guangxi Clique ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Guangxi Clique ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership of the Guangxi Clique
ⓘ
role in the Warlord Era in China ⓘ |
| occupation |
political figure
ⓘ
warlord ⓘ |
| partOf | warlord coalitions in Republican China ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Guangxi
ⓘ
linked to:
Guangxi Province
Republic of China (1912–1949) ⓘ
linked to:
Republic of China
|
| politicalFaction | Guangxi Clique ⓘ |
| politicalSystemContext | Republic of China warlord politics ⓘ |
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: Yu Zuobai Description of subject: Yu Zuobai was a Chinese warlord and political figure who led the Guangxi Clique during the turbulent Warlord Era of early 20th-century China.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.