閻
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閻 is a traditional Chinese surname character, commonly romanized as Yan and used in Chinese-speaking communities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 閻 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9712127 — 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: 閻 Context triple: [Yan (surname), canBeWrittenAs, 閻]
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A.
Yih
Yih is the surname of Chia-Shun Yih, a notable Chinese-American engineer and fluid dynamicist.
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B.
Yu
Yu was the personal name of Emperor Daizong, a ruler of China's Tang dynasty in the 8th century.
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C.
Yüeh
Yüeh is an alternative romanization of "Yue," a term historically associated with various ancient peoples and regions in southern China and their related languages and cultures.
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D.
Ying
Ying was the principal political and cultural center of the ancient Chinese State of Chu during the Zhou dynasty period.
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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
- 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: 閻 Target entity description: 閻 is a traditional Chinese surname character, commonly romanized as Yan and used in Chinese-speaking communities.
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A.
Yih
Yih is the surname of Chia-Shun Yih, a notable Chinese-American engineer and fluid dynamicist.
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B.
Yu
Yu was the personal name of Emperor Daizong, a ruler of China's Tang dynasty in the 8th century.
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C.
Yüeh
Yüeh is an alternative romanization of "Yue," a term historically associated with various ancient peoples and regions in southern China and their related languages and cultures.
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D.
Ying
Ying was the principal political and cultural center of the ancient Chinese State of Chu during the Zhou dynasty period.
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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 (41)
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: 閻 Description of subject: 閻 is a traditional Chinese surname character, commonly romanized as Yan and used in Chinese-speaking communities.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.