Xian Tong
E812636
Xian Tong was the era name used during the reign of Emperor Yizong of the Tang dynasty in China.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9640658 — 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: Xian Tong Context triple: [Emperor Yizong of Tang, reignName, Xian Tong]
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Xuan
Xuan is the posthumous honorific title given to the influential Cao Wei general and statesman Sima Yi, who played a key role in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.
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Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
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Xiaolingdi
Xiaolingdi is the posthumous temple name of Emperor Ling of Han, a late Eastern Han dynasty ruler whose ineffective reign contributed to the dynasty’s decline and the rise of warlordism in China.
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Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a late 19th-century Chinese ironclad battleship of the Beiyang Fleet that played a prominent role in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a regnal era of the Tang dynasty marked by Emperor Dezong’s efforts to stabilize imperial authority and restore central control after periods of rebellion and fragmentation.
- 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: Xian Tong Target entity description: Xian Tong was the era name used during the reign of Emperor Yizong of the Tang dynasty in China.
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A.
Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
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B.
Xuan
Xuan is the posthumous honorific title given to the influential Cao Wei general and statesman Sima Yi, who played a key role in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.
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C.
Xiaolingdi
Xiaolingdi is the posthumous temple name of Emperor Ling of Han, a late Eastern Han dynasty ruler whose ineffective reign contributed to the dynasty’s decline and the rise of warlordism in China.
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D.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a late 19th-century Chinese ironclad battleship of the Beiyang Fleet that played a prominent role in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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E.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a regnal era of the Tang dynasty marked by Emperor Dezong’s efforts to stabilize imperial authority and restore central control after periods of rebellion and fragmentation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese era name
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historical period ⓘ |
| calendarSystem | Chinese calendar ⓘ |
| ChineseName | 咸通 ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| dynasty | Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| endYear | 874 ⓘ |
| eraType | reign title ⓘ |
| follows | Dazhong ⓘ |
| hasEraName | Xian Tong ⓘ |
| precedes | Qianfu ⓘ |
| reignOf | Emperor Yizong of Tang ⓘ |
| startYear | 860 ⓘ |
| transliteration |
Xián Tōng
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linked to:
Xian Tong
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| usedBy |
Emperor Yizong of Tang
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Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| usedEraName | Xian Tong ⓘ |
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: Xian Tong Description of subject: Xian Tong was the era name used during the reign of Emperor Yizong of the Tang dynasty in China.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.