Ying Huhai
E829988
Ying Huhai, better known by his temple name Qin Er Shi, was the second emperor of the Qin dynasty whose short and troubled reign contributed to the dynasty’s rapid collapse.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ying Huhai canonical | 2 |
| Hu Hai (Qin Er Shi) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9916971 — 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: Ying Huhai Context triple: [Qin Er Shi, personalName, Ying Huhai]
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A.
Cui Hao
Cui Hao was a prominent poet of the Tang dynasty in China, best known for his evocative landscape and frontier poems.
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B.
Huo Shu
Huo Shu was a lesser-known son of King Wen of Zhou, associated with the early noble lineages of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China.
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C.
He Jian
He Jian was a prominent Chinese Nationalist military commander and politician active during the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
Li Hai
Li Hai is a Chinese human rights activist known for his pro-democracy efforts and imprisonment in China, for which he received international recognition.
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E.
Li Heng
Li Heng, better known as Emperor Suzong of Tang, was a Chinese emperor who reigned during the mid-8th century and helped restore imperial authority after the An Lushan Rebellion.
- 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: Ying Huhai Target entity description: Ying Huhai, better known by his temple name Qin Er Shi, was the second emperor of the Qin dynasty whose short and troubled reign contributed to the dynasty’s rapid collapse.
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A.
Cui Hao
Cui Hao was a prominent poet of the Tang dynasty in China, best known for his evocative landscape and frontier poems.
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B.
Huo Shu
Huo Shu was a lesser-known son of King Wen of Zhou, associated with the early noble lineages of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China.
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C.
He Jian
He Jian was a prominent Chinese Nationalist military commander and politician active during the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
Li Hai
Li Hai is a Chinese human rights activist known for his pro-democracy efforts and imprisonment in China, for which he received international recognition.
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E.
Li Heng
Li Heng, better known as Emperor Suzong of Tang, was a Chinese emperor who reigned during the mid-8th century and helped restore imperial authority after the An Lushan Rebellion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Qin dynasty emperor
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emperor ⓘ |
| ascendedToThroneAs | Qin Er Shi ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Legalist policies of Qin
ⓘ
court eunuch Zhao Gao ⓘ
linked to:
Zhao Gao
|
| birthName | Ying Huhai ⓘ |
| causeOfDynasticEnd | misrule ⓘ |
| countryRuled | Qin dynasty ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| deathCause | forced suicide ⓘ |
| dynasty | Qin dynasty ⓘ |
| era | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| familyName | Ying ⓘ |
| father | Qin Shi Huang ⓘ |
| givenName | Huhai ⓘ |
| governedFrom | Xianyang ⓘ |
| governmentType | absolute monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Warring States and early imperial China
ⓘ
linked to:
Warring States period
|
| historicalSource |
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji)
ⓘ
linked to:
Records of the Grand Historian
|
| house | House of Ying ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Chinese ⓘ |
| legacy | negative reputation in Chinese historiography ⓘ |
| notableEvent | widespread rebellions during his reign ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributing to the rapid collapse of the Qin dynasty
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short reign ⓘ |
| overthrownBy | rebellions leading to Qin collapse ⓘ |
| position | second emperor of the Qin dynasty ⓘ |
| predecessor | Qin Shi Huang ⓘ |
| realm |
Qin Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
Qin dynasty
|
| region | Ancient China ⓘ |
| regnalNumber | second emperor ⓘ |
| reignTitle | Qin Er Shi ⓘ |
| religion | Chinese folk religion ⓘ |
| successor | Ziying ⓘ |
| templeName | Qin Er Shi ⓘ |
| title | Huangdi ⓘ |
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: Ying Huhai Description of subject: Ying Huhai, better known by his temple name Qin Er Shi, was the second emperor of the Qin dynasty whose short and troubled reign contributed to the dynasty’s rapid collapse.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ying Huhai