Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire
E812608
Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire was a historical administrative region in southern China known as the ancestral homeland of many Hakka people and later recognized as the birthplace of prominent Chinese marshal and politician Ye Jianying.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire canonical | 2 |
| Meixian District, Meizhou, Guangdong, China | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9640008 — 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: Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire Context triple: [Ye Jianying, placeOfBirth, Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire]
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A.
Xiangshan County, Guangdong, Qing Empire
Xiangshan County, Guangdong, in the Qing Empire was a historical county in southern China best known as the birthplace of revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen.
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B.
Xinhui, Guangdong, Qing Empire
Xinhui, Guangdong, Qing Empire was a county-level region in southern China’s Guangdong Province during the late imperial era, historically notable as the birthplace of influential reformist intellectual Liang Qichao.
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C.
Huiyang, Guangdong, Qing Empire
Huiyang, Guangdong, Qing Empire was a county-level area in southern China during the late imperial period, located in what is now modern Huizhou in Guangdong Province.
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D.
Amoy, Fujian, Qing dynasty
Amoy, Fujian, during the Qing dynasty refers to the historical port city now known as Xiamen in southeastern China, an important center of maritime trade and foreign contact in that era.
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E.
Hejian, Zhili, Qing dynasty
Hejian, Zhili, Qing dynasty was a county-level city in the historical Zhili Province of imperial China, located in what is now Hebei Province.
- 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: Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire Target entity description: Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire was a historical administrative region in southern China known as the ancestral homeland of many Hakka people and later recognized as the birthplace of prominent Chinese marshal and politician Ye Jianying.
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A.
Xiangshan County, Guangdong, Qing Empire
Xiangshan County, Guangdong, in the Qing Empire was a historical county in southern China best known as the birthplace of revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen.
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B.
Xinhui, Guangdong, Qing Empire
Xinhui, Guangdong, Qing Empire was a county-level region in southern China’s Guangdong Province during the late imperial era, historically notable as the birthplace of influential reformist intellectual Liang Qichao.
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C.
Huiyang, Guangdong, Qing Empire
Huiyang, Guangdong, Qing Empire was a county-level area in southern China during the late imperial period, located in what is now modern Huizhou in Guangdong Province.
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D.
Amoy, Fujian, Qing dynasty
Amoy, Fujian, during the Qing dynasty refers to the historical port city now known as Xiamen in southeastern China, an important center of maritime trade and foreign contact in that era.
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E.
Hejian, Zhili, Qing dynasty
Hejian, Zhili, Qing dynasty was a county-level city in the historical Zhili Province of imperial China, located in what is now Hebei Province.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese marshal
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Chinese politician ⓘ district ⓘ historical administrative division ⓘ |
| administrativeHierarchy | district under a prefecture-level jurisdiction in Qing China ⓘ |
| associatedDialect |
Meixian dialect of Hakka
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linked to:
Meixian dialect
|
| associatedPerson | Ye Jianying ⓘ |
| birthplace | Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire ⓘ |
| country |
Qing Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
Qing dynasty
|
| culturalRole | major center of Hakka culture in Guangdong ⓘ |
| ethnicAssociation | Hakka people ⓘ |
| hasEthnicMajority | Hakka ⓘ |
| hasNotableNative | Ye Jianying ⓘ |
| historicalNameLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | county-level division under Qing administration ⓘ |
| knownAs | ancestral homeland of many Hakka people ⓘ |
| languageCommunity | Hakka Chinese speakers ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Guangdong
ⓘ
linked to:
Guangdong Province
southern China ⓘ |
| locatedOn | upper reaches of the Han River basin ⓘ |
| notableAs | birthplace of Ye Jianying ⓘ |
| notableFor | large Hakka diaspora ancestry ⓘ |
| partOf | Guangdong Province, Qing Empire ⓘ |
| presentDayLocation |
Meixian District, Meizhou, Guangdong, China
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linked to:
Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire
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| regionType | inland district of eastern Guangdong ⓘ |
| successorAdministrativeUnit |
Meixian District
ⓘ
Meizhou ⓘ |
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: Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire Description of subject: Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire was a historical administrative region in southern China known as the ancestral homeland of many Hakka people and later recognized as the birthplace of prominent Chinese marshal and politician Ye Jianying.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire
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presentDayLocation
→
Meixian District, Meizhou, Guangdong, China
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linked to: Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire
subject linked to:
Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire