May Zao
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May Zao was the wife of renowned Chinese-French abstract painter Zao Wou-Ki and a figure associated with his personal and artistic life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| May Zao canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10563591 — 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: May Zao Context triple: [Zao Wou-Ki, spouse, May Zao]
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A.
Shizhen
Shizhen is the given name of Li Shizhen, the renowned Ming dynasty physician and naturalist best known for compiling the monumental Chinese medical text "Compendium of Materia Medica."
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B.
Mingze
Mingze is the given name of Xi Jinping’s daughter, Xi Mingze, who is known for maintaining a very private life despite her father’s prominent political role in China.
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C.
Zao Jun
Zao Jun is a household deity in Chinese folk religion and Taoism who oversees the moral conduct of families and reports to the Jade Emperor, especially around the Lunar New Year.
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D.
Xiangmei
Xiangmei is the Chinese given name of Anna Chennault, a prominent Chinese-American journalist, author, and influential political figure in mid-20th-century U.S.-China relations.
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E.
Zao Shen
Zao Shen is a household deity in Chinese folk religion and Taoism who oversees the family kitchen and reports on the household’s conduct to higher gods.
- 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: May Zao Target entity description: May Zao was the wife of renowned Chinese-French abstract painter Zao Wou-Ki and a figure associated with his personal and artistic life.
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A.
Shizhen
Shizhen is the given name of Li Shizhen, the renowned Ming dynasty physician and naturalist best known for compiling the monumental Chinese medical text "Compendium of Materia Medica."
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B.
Mingze
Mingze is the given name of Xi Jinping’s daughter, Xi Mingze, who is known for maintaining a very private life despite her father’s prominent political role in China.
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C.
Zao Jun
Zao Jun is a household deity in Chinese folk religion and Taoism who oversees the moral conduct of families and reports to the Jade Emperor, especially around the Lunar New Year.
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D.
Xiangmei
Xiangmei is the Chinese given name of Anna Chennault, a prominent Chinese-American journalist, author, and influential political figure in mid-20th-century U.S.-China relations.
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E.
Zao Shen
Zao Shen is a household deity in Chinese folk religion and Taoism who oversees the family kitchen and reports on the household’s conduct to higher gods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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spouse of artist ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Chinese art community
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Chinese-French abstract painter Zao Wou-Ki ⓘ
linked to:
Zao Wou-Ki
French art community ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Chinese ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | artistic milieu ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Chinese ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with the personal life of Zao Wou-Ki
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being the wife of Zao Wou-Ki ⓘ influence on the artistic life of Zao Wou-Ki ⓘ |
| residence |
China
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France ⓘ |
| spouse | May Zao ⓘ |
| spouseName | Zao Wou-Ki ⓘ |
| spouseNationality | Chinese-French ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | abstract painter ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Zao Wou-Ki ⓘ |
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: May Zao Description of subject: May Zao was the wife of renowned Chinese-French abstract painter Zao Wou-Ki and a figure associated with his personal and artistic life.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.