Yuan Mei
E811093
Yuan Mei was an 18th-century Chinese poet, scholar, and gastronome of the Qing dynasty, renowned for his elegant poetry and influential writings on food and culinary culture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yuan Mei canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9614590 — 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: Yuan Mei Context triple: [Yuan, hasNotableBearer, Yuan Mei]
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A.
Zongmi
Zongmi was a prominent Tang dynasty Buddhist scholar-monk known for synthesizing Chan (Zen) and Huayan thought into a comprehensive doctrinal system.
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B.
Tang Yulin
Tang Yulin was a Chinese warlord and military commander from Manchuria who played a prominent role in regional politics during the Warlord Era and the early 20th-century struggles in Northeast China.
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C.
Chen Qimei
Chen Qimei was an influential early Chinese revolutionary leader and close ally of Sun Yat-sen who played a key role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty.
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D.
Chen Yaozu
Chen Yaozu was a Chinese military figure and graduate of the prestigious Yunnan Military Academy, known for producing many influential officers in modern Chinese history.
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E.
Yu Yishang
Yu Yishang was one of the principal wives of Yuan Shikai, the early 20th-century Chinese military strongman and short-lived emperor of China.
- 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: Yuan Mei Target entity description: Yuan Mei was an 18th-century Chinese poet, scholar, and gastronome of the Qing dynasty, renowned for his elegant poetry and influential writings on food and culinary culture.
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A.
Zongmi
Zongmi was a prominent Tang dynasty Buddhist scholar-monk known for synthesizing Chan (Zen) and Huayan thought into a comprehensive doctrinal system.
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B.
Tang Yulin
Tang Yulin was a Chinese warlord and military commander from Manchuria who played a prominent role in regional politics during the Warlord Era and the early 20th-century struggles in Northeast China.
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C.
Chen Qimei
Chen Qimei was an influential early Chinese revolutionary leader and close ally of Sun Yat-sen who played a key role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty.
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D.
Chen Yaozu
Chen Yaozu was a Chinese military figure and graduate of the prestigious Yunnan Military Academy, known for producing many influential officers in modern Chinese history.
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E.
Yu Yishang
Yu Yishang was one of the principal wives of Yuan Shikai, the early 20th-century Chinese military strongman and short-lived emperor of China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese poet
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Qing dynasty scholar ⓘ gastronome ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| culinaryPhilosophy |
opposition to excessive seasoning and ornamentation
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respect for ingredients ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| dynasty | Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Confucian classical education ⓘ |
| employer | Qing imperial bureaucracy ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Yuan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Chinese poetry
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culinary culture ⓘ gastronomy ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
gastronomy writing
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literary criticism ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | Mei ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Song poetry
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Tang poetry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Suiyuan cuisine theory
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elegant poetry ⓘ influential gastronomic writings ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
emphasis on personal feeling
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refined and graceful diction ⓘ |
| movement | Qing dynasty literature ⓘ |
| name | Yuan Mei ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
advocacy of simplicity and authenticity in food
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emphasis on naturalness and spontaneity in poetry ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Suiyuan Shidan
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Suiyuan Shihua ⓘ Xiaocangshan Fanghuaji ⓘ |
| occupation |
gastronome
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official ⓘ poet ⓘ scholar ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Qing dynasty official ⓘ |
| religion | Confucianism ⓘ |
| residence | Suiyuan (Garden of Pure Enjoyment) ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hangzhou
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Nanjing ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Yuan Mei Description of subject: Yuan Mei was an 18th-century Chinese poet, scholar, and gastronome of the Qing dynasty, renowned for his elegant poetry and influential writings on food and culinary culture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.