Li Bing
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Li Bing was a Sui dynasty official and nobleman best known as the father of Li Yuan, who later founded China’s Tang dynasty as Emperor Gaozu.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Li Bing canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10057177 — 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: Li Bing Context triple: [Emperor Gaozu of Tang, father, Li Bing]
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A.
Li Bing
Li Bing was an ancient Chinese engineer and official of the Qin state renowned for creating the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, one of the world’s oldest and most influential water-management projects.
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B.
Erlang (son of Li Bing)
Erlang (son of Li Bing) was an ancient Chinese engineer and official traditionally credited with helping complete and refine the Dujiangyan Irrigation System in Sichuan.
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C.
Han Shui
Han Shui is the Chinese name for the Han River in Hubei, a major tributary of the Yangtze River and an important waterway in central China.
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D.
Li Tai
Li Tai was a Tang dynasty prince and son of Emperor Taizong, once a prominent contender in the imperial succession before falling out of favor and being demoted.
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E.
Ma Sichun
Ma Sichun is a Chinese actress known for her acclaimed film and television roles, including winning the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress.
- 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: Li Bing Target entity description: Li Bing was a Sui dynasty official and nobleman best known as the father of Li Yuan, who later founded China’s Tang dynasty as Emperor Gaozu.
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A.
Li Bing
Li Bing was an ancient Chinese engineer and official of the Qin state renowned for creating the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, one of the world’s oldest and most influential water-management projects.
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B.
Erlang (son of Li Bing)
Erlang (son of Li Bing) was an ancient Chinese engineer and official traditionally credited with helping complete and refine the Dujiangyan Irrigation System in Sichuan.
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C.
Han Shui
Han Shui is the Chinese name for the Han River in Hubei, a major tributary of the Yangtze River and an important waterway in central China.
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D.
Li Tai
Li Tai was a Tang dynasty prince and son of Emperor Taizong, once a prominent contender in the imperial succession before falling out of favor and being demoted.
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E.
Ma Sichun
Ma Sichun is a Chinese actress known for her acclaimed film and television roles, including winning the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sui dynasty person
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historical figure ⓘ nobleman ⓘ official ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty |
Sui dynasty
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Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| child |
Li Yuan
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linked to:
Emperor Gaozu of Tang
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| countryOfCitizenship | Sui dynasty ⓘ |
| era | Sui dynasty ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Li ⓘ |
| father |
Li Bing
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Li Bing ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Bing ⓘ |
| historicalContext | transition from Sui to Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| knownAs | father of the founder of the Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| name | Li Bing ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | nobleman of the Sui dynasty ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Li Yuan ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Emperor Gaozu of Tang ⓘ |
| personalName |
Li Yuan
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linked to:
Emperor Gaozu of Tang
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| positionHeld | Sui dynasty official ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Northern Zhou dynasty officials
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linked to:
Northern Zhou
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| region | China ⓘ |
| roleInHistory | progenitor of the Tang imperial house ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Tang dynasty aristocracy
ⓘ
linked to:
Tang military aristocracy
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| timePeriod |
6th century
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7th century ⓘ |
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: Li Bing Description of subject: Li Bing was a Sui dynasty official and nobleman best known as the father of Li Yuan, who later founded China’s Tang dynasty as Emperor Gaozu.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.