Tianhan
E829492
Tianhan was an era name used during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han dynasty in ancient China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tianhan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9918516 — 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: Tianhan Context triple: [Emperor Wu of Han, eraName, Tianhan]
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A.
Yingtian
Yingtian was an important early Ming dynasty capital city, historically centered around present-day Nanjing in China.
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B.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a late 19th-century Chinese ironclad battleship of the Beiyang Fleet that played a prominent role in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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C.
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.
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D.
Yingchao
Yingchao is the given name of Deng Yingchao, a prominent Chinese revolutionary leader and influential politician in the 20th century.
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E.
Yüeh-chih
Yüeh-chih were an ancient Indo-European nomadic people of Central Asia who played a key role in the formation of the Kushan Empire and the cultural exchanges along the Silk Road.
- 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: Tianhan Target entity description: Tianhan was an era name used during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han dynasty in ancient China.
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A.
Yingtian
Yingtian was an important early Ming dynasty capital city, historically centered around present-day Nanjing in China.
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B.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a late 19th-century Chinese ironclad battleship of the Beiyang Fleet that played a prominent role in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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C.
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.
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D.
Yingchao
Yingchao is the given name of Deng Yingchao, a prominent Chinese revolutionary leader and influential politician in the 20th century.
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E.
Yüeh-chih
Yüeh-chih were an ancient Indo-European nomadic people of Central Asia who played a key role in the formation of the Kushan Empire and the cultural exchanges along the Silk Road.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese era name
ⓘ
historical period name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Han dynasty imperial court
ⓘ
linked to:
Han imperial court
|
| calendarSystem | Chinese calendar ⓘ |
| capitalDuringEra |
Chang’an
ⓘ
linked to:
Chang'an
|
| dynasty | Han dynasty ⓘ |
| eraNameType | nianhao ⓘ |
| follows | Yuanshou ⓘ |
| governmentTypeDuringEra | monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Central Plains of China
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Plains region of China
|
| languageOfName | Chinese ⓘ |
| namedBy | Emperor Wu of Han ⓘ |
| partOf | sequence of era names of Emperor Wu of Han ⓘ |
| precedes | Taichu ⓘ |
| reignOf |
Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Emperor Wu of Han
|
| sovereignTitle | Emperor ⓘ |
| usedBy | Emperor Wu of Han ⓘ |
| usedDuringDynasty |
Western Han dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Han period
|
| usedFor | dating years of Emperor Wu’s reign ⓘ |
| usedIn |
historical chronicles
ⓘ
imperial edicts ⓘ official documents ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Ancient China ⓘ |
| usedInHistoriographyOf |
Emperor Wu of Han
ⓘ
Western Han dynasty ⓘ
linked to:
Western Han period
|
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: Tianhan Description of subject: Tianhan was an era name used during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han dynasty in ancient China.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.