Yan
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Yan was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty era, located in the northeast and later annexed by the expanding Qin state in the late 3rd century BCE.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9889912 — 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: Yan Context triple: [State of Qin, conqueredState, Yan]
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A.
Yan
Yan is a Chinese surname historically borne by various notable figures and families across different regions of China.
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B.
Yun
Yun is the Chinese given name of Jack Ma, the billionaire co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group.
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C.
S'Yan
S'Yan is a former king of Wakanda and uncle to T'Challa in Marvel Comics' Black Panther mythos.
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D.
Yua
Yua is a small genus of flowering plants in the grape family Vitaceae, native to parts of East Asia.
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E.
Yei
Yei is a town in southwestern South Sudan that serves as a regional hub near the borders with Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 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: Yan Target entity description: Yan was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty era, located in the northeast and later annexed by the expanding Qin state in the late 3rd century BCE.
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A.
Yan
Yan is a Chinese surname historically borne by various notable figures and families across different regions of China.
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B.
Yun
Yun is the Chinese given name of Jack Ma, the billionaire co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group.
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C.
S'Yan
S'Yan is a former king of Wakanda and uncle to T'Challa in Marvel Comics' Black Panther mythos.
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D.
Yua
Yua is a small genus of flowering plants in the grape family Vitaceae, native to parts of East Asia.
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E.
Yei
Yei is a town in southwestern South Sudan that serves as a regional hub near the borders with Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ancient Chinese state ⓘ |
| capital |
Ji
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Xiadu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| endCause | conquest by Qin ⓘ |
| endTime | 222 BCE ⓘ |
| enemy |
Qi (state)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Qin (state) NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhao (state) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| event | annexation by Qin ⓘ |
| followed | Western Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Qin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | monarchy ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalSite | Xiadu ruins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSphere | Chinese civilization ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Old Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLegacy | name used in later Yan dynasties ⓘ |
| hasRulerTitle |
King of Yan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marquis of Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Beijing region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hebei region NERFINISHED ⓘ Liaoning region NERFINISHED ⓘ northeastern China ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod |
Spring and Autumn period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Warring States period NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| modernLocationCorrespondsTo |
Beijing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hebei Province NERFINISHED ⓘ Liaoning Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Yan invasion of Qi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
assassination attempt on King Zheng of Qin ⓘ |
| notableFigure |
Jing Ke
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Le Yi NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince Dan of Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRuler |
King Hui of Yan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
King Wucheng of Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ King Xi of Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ King Zhao of Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Zhou dynasty feudal system ⓘ |
| partOfConflict | Warring States period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Chinese folk religion
ⓘ
ancestor worship ⓘ |
| sharesBorderWith |
Korean polities
ⓘ
Qi (state) NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhao (state) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | Western Zhou period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedScript | Chinese script ⓘ |
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: Yan Description of subject: Yan was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty era, located in the northeast and later annexed by the expanding Qin state in the late 3rd century BCE.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
State of Qin