King of Wei
E814660
The King of Wei was the noble title held by the powerful warlord Cao Cao, who dominated northern China in the late Eastern Han dynasty and laid the foundations for the state of Cao Wei.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King of Wei canonical | 9 |
| King Wu of Wei | 1 |
| Prince of Wei | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9247213 — 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: King of Wei Context triple: [Cao Cao, positionHeld, King of Wei]
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A.
Emperor Wen of Wei
Emperor Wen of Wei, born Cao Pi, was the founding emperor of the Cao Wei state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for formally ending the Han dynasty and establishing a new imperial regime.
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B.
Cao Wei
Cao Wei was a powerful Chinese state founded by the Cao family that ruled northern China during the Three Kingdoms period following the fall of the Han dynasty.
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C.
King Wei of Qi
King Wei of Qi was a prominent Warring States-era monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Qi, known for strengthening his kingdom’s power and fostering political and military reforms.
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D.
Emperor Yuan of Wei
Emperor Yuan of Wei was the final emperor of the Cao Wei state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, whose reign ended with the dynasty’s usurpation by the Jin.
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E.
Guangong
Guangong, also known as Guan Yu, is a deified Chinese historical general revered as a symbol of loyalty, righteousness, and martial valor in Chinese folk religion, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.
- 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: King of Wei Target entity description: The King of Wei was the noble title held by the powerful warlord Cao Cao, who dominated northern China in the late Eastern Han dynasty and laid the foundations for the state of Cao Wei.
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A.
Emperor Wen of Wei
Emperor Wen of Wei, born Cao Pi, was the founding emperor of the Cao Wei state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for formally ending the Han dynasty and establishing a new imperial regime.
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B.
Cao Wei
Cao Wei was a powerful Chinese state founded by the Cao family that ruled northern China during the Three Kingdoms period following the fall of the Han dynasty.
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C.
King Wei of Qi
King Wei of Qi was a prominent Warring States-era monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Qi, known for strengthening his kingdom’s power and fostering political and military reforms.
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D.
Emperor Yuan of Wei
Emperor Yuan of Wei was the final emperor of the Cao Wei state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, whose reign ended with the dynasty’s usurpation by the Jin.
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E.
Guangong
Guangong, also known as Guan Yu, is a deified Chinese historical general revered as a symbol of loyalty, righteousness, and martial valor in Chinese folk religion, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
monarchical title
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noble title ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty | Eastern Han dynasty ⓘ |
| associatedPeriod | late Eastern Han period ⓘ |
| associatedRegime | Cao Cao regime ⓘ |
| category |
Chinese royal titles
ⓘ
Titles of the Three Kingdoms period ⓘ |
| country | Cao Wei ⓘ |
| foundationRole | laid foundations for the state of Cao Wei ⓘ |
| governmentType | monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalLocation | North China Plain ⓘ |
| historicalRole | stepping stone to imperial title in Cao Wei ⓘ |
| holder | Cao Cao ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| linkedWarlord | Cao Cao ⓘ |
| nobleRank | king ⓘ |
| notableBearerRole |
chancellor of Eastern Han
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warlord ⓘ |
| politicalFunction |
feudal title
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hereditary rulership title ⓘ |
| powerBase | northern China ⓘ |
| predecessorState | Eastern Han dynasty ⓘ |
| realm | Wei ⓘ |
| regionRuled | northern China ⓘ |
| successorState | Cao Wei ⓘ |
| successorTitle | Emperor of Wei ⓘ |
| titleContext | Three Kingdoms period ⓘ |
| titleGrantedBy | Emperor of Han ⓘ |
| usedFor | legitimizing Cao Cao’s de facto rule ⓘ |
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: King of Wei Description of subject: The King of Wei was the noble title held by the powerful warlord Cao Cao, who dominated northern China in the late Eastern Han dynasty and laid the foundations for the state of Cao Wei.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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