Lao She
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Lao She was a prominent 20th-century Chinese novelist and playwright best known for his vivid portrayals of Beijing life and his satirical, socially conscious works such as "Rickshaw Boy" and "Teahouse."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lao She canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9675213 — 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: Lao She Context triple: [Republican era of China, significantFigure, Lao She]
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A.
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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B.
Lu Xun
Lu Xun was a prominent Eastern Wu general and strategist of the late Three Kingdoms period, best known for his decisive victory over Liu Bei at the Battle of Yiling.
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C.
Lu Xun
Lu Xun was a pioneering 20th-century Chinese writer and intellectual whose sharp critiques of traditional culture made him a central figure in the New Culture and May Fourth movements.
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D.
Zhu Ziqing
Zhu Ziqing was a renowned early 20th-century Chinese essayist and poet, best known for his lyrical prose and deeply personal reflections on everyday life and family relationships.
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E.
Zhou Zuoren
Zhou Zuoren was a prominent Chinese essayist, literary critic, and scholar known for his role in early 20th-century cultural reform and his influential participation in the New Culture Movement.
- 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: Lao She Target entity description: Lao She was a prominent 20th-century Chinese novelist and playwright best known for his vivid portrayals of Beijing life and his satirical, socially conscious works such as "Rickshaw Boy" and "Teahouse."
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A.
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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B.
Lu Xun
Lu Xun was a prominent Eastern Wu general and strategist of the late Three Kingdoms period, best known for his decisive victory over Liu Bei at the Battle of Yiling.
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C.
Lu Xun
Lu Xun was a pioneering 20th-century Chinese writer and intellectual whose sharp critiques of traditional culture made him a central figure in the New Culture and May Fourth movements.
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D.
Zhu Ziqing
Zhu Ziqing was a renowned early 20th-century Chinese essayist and poet, best known for his lyrical prose and deeply personal reflections on everyday life and family relationships.
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E.
Zhou Zuoren
Zhou Zuoren was a prominent Chinese essayist, literary critic, and scholar known for his role in early 20th-century cultural reform and his influential participation in the New Culture Movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (74)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese novelist
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person ⓘ playwright ⓘ satirist ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1920s
ⓘ
1930s ⓘ 1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ 1960s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Order of the British Empire
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People’s Artist (title in China) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Shu Qingchun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| causeOfDeathContext | Cultural Revolution persecution ⓘ |
| child | Shu Yi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1899-02-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1966-08-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Beijing Normal School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Cheeloo University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Qingdao University NERFINISHED ⓘ School of Oriental Studies, University of London NERFINISHED ⓘ Shandong University NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Department of State (as cultural lecturer) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Manchu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
novel
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play ⓘ satire ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| influenced | contemporary Chinese literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Lu Xun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Chinese ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | vivid Beijing dialect ⓘ |
| literaryTheme |
Beijing urban life
ⓘ
ordinary people ⓘ social injustice ⓘ |
| memberOf | Chinese Writers Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
modern Chinese literature
ⓘ
realism ⓘ social realism ⓘ |
| nativeName | 老舍 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Camel Xiangzi
NERFINISHED
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Four Generations Under One Roof NERFINISHED ⓘ Luo Tuo Xiang Zi NERFINISHED ⓘ Rickshaw Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ Teahouse NERFINISHED ⓘ The Drum Singers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
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novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ short story writer ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Beijing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Qing Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhili Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Beijing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
deputy to the National People’s Congress
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vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles ⓘ |
| pseudonym | Lao She NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Beijing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
Singapore NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| spouse | Hu Jieqing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | painter ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Beijing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chongqing NERFINISHED ⓘ Jinan NERFINISHED ⓘ London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
Qingdao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingLanguage | Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Lao She Description of subject: Lao She was a prominent 20th-century Chinese novelist and playwright best known for his vivid portrayals of Beijing life and his satirical, socially conscious works such as "Rickshaw Boy" and "Teahouse."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.