Li clan of Tang
E827058
The Li clan of Tang was the imperial family that founded and ruled China’s Tang dynasty, one of the country’s most prosperous and culturally influential eras.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Li clan of Tang canonical | 18 |
| Li family of Tang | 4 |
| Li clan of Longxi | 2 |
| Tang imperial clan | 2 |
| Li house of Tang | 1 |
| Tang imperial clan Li | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9867739 — 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: Li clan of Tang Context triple: [Emperor Ai of Tang, house, Li clan of Tang]
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A.
Sima clan
The Sima clan was a powerful Chinese family that rose to dominance as regents of the Cao Wei state and ultimately founded the Jin dynasty, unifying China in the 3rd century.
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B.
Ji clan
The Ji clan was one of the three powerful aristocratic lineages that dominated the politics of the ancient Chinese State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn period.
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C.
Ji clan
The Ji clan was the aristocratic lineage that held hereditary power as the ruling family of the ancient Chinese State of Yan during the Zhou dynasty period.
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D.
Guo clan
The Guo clan was a powerful Chinese noble family that served as the ruling house of the Later Zhou dynasty during the Five Dynasties period.
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E.
Han clan
The Han clan was one of the powerful aristocratic lineages in ancient China that emerged as a major feudal state following the breakup of the Jin kingdom during the Warring States period.
- 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: Li clan of Tang Target entity description: The Li clan of Tang was the imperial family that founded and ruled China’s Tang dynasty, one of the country’s most prosperous and culturally influential eras.
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A.
Sima clan
The Sima clan was a powerful Chinese family that rose to dominance as regents of the Cao Wei state and ultimately founded the Jin dynasty, unifying China in the 3rd century.
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B.
Ji clan
The Ji clan was one of the three powerful aristocratic lineages that dominated the politics of the ancient Chinese State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn period.
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C.
Ji clan
The Ji clan was the aristocratic lineage that held hereditary power as the ruling family of the ancient Chinese State of Yan during the Zhou dynasty period.
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D.
Guo clan
The Guo clan was a powerful Chinese noble family that served as the ruling house of the Later Zhou dynasty during the Five Dynasties period.
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E.
Han clan
The Han clan was one of the powerful aristocratic lineages in ancient China that emerged as a major feudal state following the breakup of the Jin kingdom during the Warring States period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Li clan of Tang Description of subject: The Li clan of Tang was the imperial family that founded and ruled China’s Tang dynasty, one of the country’s most prosperous and culturally influential eras.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.