Fa
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Fa was the personal name of King Wu of Zhou, the founding monarch of China’s Zhou dynasty who overthrew the Shang.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fa canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9976464 — 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: Fa Context triple: [King Wu of Zhou, givenName, Fa]
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FA
FA is the governing body of association football in England, responsible for overseeing the national teams, competitions, and the rules of the game within the country.
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FA
FA is a Chilean left-wing political coalition known for uniting various progressive parties and movements to challenge the country’s traditional political blocs.
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Fu
Fu is a Chinese surname borne by various notable historical and contemporary figures across politics, arts, and other fields.
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F
F is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Ford Motor Company, the American multinational automaker known for mass-producing automobiles and pioneering assembly line manufacturing.
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F
The F is a New York City Subway service that runs along the IND Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan and Queens Boulevard Line in Queens, connecting Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
- 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: Fa Target entity description: Fa was the personal name of King Wu of Zhou, the founding monarch of China’s Zhou dynasty who overthrew the Shang.
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A.
FA
FA is the governing body of association football in England, responsible for overseeing the national teams, competitions, and the rules of the game within the country.
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B.
FA
FA is a Chilean left-wing political coalition known for uniting various progressive parties and movements to challenge the country’s traditional political blocs.
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C.
Fu
Fu is a Chinese surname borne by various notable historical and contemporary figures across politics, arts, and other fields.
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D.
F
F is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Ford Motor Company, the American multinational automaker known for mass-producing automobiles and pioneering assembly line manufacturing.
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F
The F is a New York City Subway service that runs along the IND Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan and Queens Boulevard Line in Queens, connecting Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Chinese monarch
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mandate of Heaven
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Zhou conquest of Shang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battleParticipatedIn | Battle of Muye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Zhou (vassal state of Shang) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brother | Duke of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | near Mount Li (traditional attribution) ⓘ |
| capitalEstablishedAt | Haojing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | King Cheng of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| civilization | Zhou China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryRuled | Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| courtesyName | Zhou Fa Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Haojing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynastyFounded | Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Western Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | King Wen of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentFormEstablished | feudal Zhou system ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | late 2nd millennium BC ⓘ |
| house | House of Ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| implemented | enfeoffment of relatives and allies ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding the Zhou dynasty
ⓘ
overthrowing the Shang dynasty ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Old Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legitimizedRuleBy | Mandate of Heaven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Tai Si NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | 發 ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Duke of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overthrewDynasty | Shang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| personalName | Fa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| personalNameOf | King Wu of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | King Zhou of Shang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionRuled | Central Plain of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignName | King Wu of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Chinese folk religion ⓘ |
| roleInMythology | culture hero ⓘ |
| sourceMention |
Book of Documents
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Records of the Grand Historian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Queen Yijiang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | regency of the Duke of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | King Cheng of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorStateTo | Shang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
King Wu of Zhou
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
King of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| veneratedAs | sage king ⓘ |
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: Fa Description of subject: Fa was the personal name of King Wu of Zhou, the founding monarch of China’s Zhou dynasty who overthrew the Shang.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.