Lady Yang
E838669
Lady Yang was a Chinese noblewoman of the Tang dynasty best known as the mother of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lady Yang canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10057239 — 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: Lady Yang Context triple: [Wu Zetian, mother, Lady Yang]
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A.
Princess Yangxin
Princess Yangxin was a Han dynasty imperial princess, known as a daughter of Emperor Jing of Han and a member of the Western Han royal family.
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B.
Lady Wu
Lady Wu was a prominent figure of the late Eastern Han dynasty best known as the mother of Sun Quan, the founding emperor of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China.
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C.
Guo Nüwang
Guo Nüwang was an empress of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period and the wife of its first emperor, Cao Pi.
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D.
Lady Zhao
Lady Zhao was the consort of King Zhuangxiang of Qin and the mother of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor who unified China.
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E.
Lady Dong
Lady Dong was a consort of Emperor Ling of Han and the mother of one of his imperial offspring during the late Eastern Han dynasty in China.
- 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: Lady Yang Target entity description: Lady Yang was a Chinese noblewoman of the Tang dynasty best known as the mother of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history.
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A.
Princess Yangxin
Princess Yangxin was a Han dynasty imperial princess, known as a daughter of Emperor Jing of Han and a member of the Western Han royal family.
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B.
Lady Wu
Lady Wu was a prominent figure of the late Eastern Han dynasty best known as the mother of Sun Quan, the founding emperor of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China.
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C.
Guo Nüwang
Guo Nüwang was an empress of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period and the wife of its first emperor, Cao Pi.
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D.
Lady Zhao
Lady Zhao was the consort of King Zhuangxiang of Qin and the mother of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor who unified China.
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E.
Lady Dong
Lady Dong was a consort of Emperor Ling of Han and the mother of one of his imperial offspring during the late Eastern Han dynasty in China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese noblewoman
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
court of Emperor Gaozong of Tang
ⓘ
reign of Wu Zetian ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Qianling Mausoleum ⓘ |
| child |
Wu Yuanlang
ⓘ
Wu Yuanqing ⓘ Wu Yuanshuang ⓘ Wu Zetian ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| era | 7th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Yang ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| livedIn | China ⓘ |
| motherOf | Wu Zetian ⓘ |
| motherTongue | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Wu Zetian ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Emperor Gaozong of Tang
ⓘ
Empress Wu Zetian ⓘ
linked to:
Wu Zetian
|
| posthumousHonor | Empress Yi’an ⓘ |
| relative | Wu clan of Bing ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| residence |
Bingzhou
ⓘ
Chang’an ⓘ
linked to:
Chang'an
Lizhou ⓘ |
| spouse | Wu Shihuo ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| title | Lady of Rongguo County ⓘ |
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: Lady Yang Description of subject: Lady Yang was a Chinese noblewoman of the Tang dynasty best known as the mother of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.