Taiyuan
E830349
Taiyuan was a historical Chinese era name used during the reign of the Eastern Jin emperor Sun Liang.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Taiyuan canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9944194 — 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: Taiyuan Context triple: [Sun Liang, eraNameUsed, Taiyuan]
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A.
Taiyuan
Taiyuan is the capital and largest city of Shanxi Province in northern China, known as an important industrial and transportation hub with a long imperial history.
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B.
Xinzhou
Xinzhou is a prefecture-level city in northern China known for its historical sites and location within Shanxi Province’s coal-rich and culturally significant region.
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C.
Datong
Datong is a historic industrial city in northern China known for its coal production and nearby cultural landmarks such as the Yungang Grottoes.
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D.
Jinzhong
Jinzhong is a prefecture-level city in northern China known for its historical sites and cultural heritage within Shanxi Province.
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E.
Baoding
Baoding is a historic prefecture-level city in central Hebei Province, China, known as a regional transportation hub and former military and administrative center.
- 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: Taiyuan Target entity description: Taiyuan was a historical Chinese era name used during the reign of the Eastern Jin emperor Sun Liang.
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A.
Taiyuan
Taiyuan is the capital and largest city of Shanxi Province in northern China, known as an important industrial and transportation hub with a long imperial history.
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B.
Xinzhou
Xinzhou is a prefecture-level city in northern China known for its historical sites and location within Shanxi Province’s coal-rich and culturally significant region.
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C.
Datong
Datong is a historic industrial city in northern China known for its coal production and nearby cultural landmarks such as the Yungang Grottoes.
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D.
Jinzhong
Jinzhong is a prefecture-level city in northern China known for its historical sites and cultural heritage within Shanxi Province.
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E.
Baoding
Baoding is a historic prefecture-level city in central Hebei Province, China, known as a regional transportation hub and former military and administrative center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese dynasty
ⓘ
Chinese era name ⓘ emperor of Eastern Wu ⓘ |
| appliesTo | reign of Sun Liang ⓘ |
| calendarType |
Chinese calendar
ⓘ
linked to:
traditional Chinese calendar
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| country | China ⓘ |
| follows | Jianxing ⓘ |
| reignEraName | Taiyuan ⓘ |
| timeEnd | 256 ⓘ |
| timeStart | 252 ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Eastern Jin dynasty
ⓘ
Sun Liang ⓘ |
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: Taiyuan Description of subject: Taiyuan was a historical Chinese era name used during the reign of the Eastern Jin emperor Sun Liang.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.