Zheng Xuan
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Zheng Xuan was a prominent Eastern Han dynasty Confucian scholar best known for his influential commentaries on the Chinese classics.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zheng Xuan canonical | 4 |
| Zheng Xuan commentary | 1 |
| 鄭玄 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10869011 — 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: Zheng Xuan Context triple: [Book of Documents, hasReceivedCommentaryBy, Zheng Xuan]
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A.
Pei Songzhi
Pei Songzhi was a 5th-century Chinese historian best known for his extensive and detailed annotations to the classic historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms.
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B.
Ban Gu
Ban Gu was a prominent 1st-century Chinese historian and scholar of the Eastern Han dynasty, best known for authoring one of China’s most important official dynastic histories.
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C.
Dong Zhongshu
Dong Zhongshu was a prominent Han dynasty scholar and political philosopher who systematized Confucianism into an official state ideology, deeply shaping Chinese thought and governance.
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D.
Xun Kuang
Xun Kuang, better known as Xunzi, was an influential Warring States–period Confucian philosopher noted for his belief in the innate badness of human nature and the importance of ritual and education.
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E.
Liu Ban
Liu Ban was a Chinese scholar and official known for serving on the editorial team that compiled the historical chronicle Zizhi Tongjian.
- 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: Zheng Xuan Target entity description: Zheng Xuan was a prominent Eastern Han dynasty Confucian scholar best known for his influential commentaries on the Chinese classics.
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A.
Pei Songzhi
Pei Songzhi was a 5th-century Chinese historian best known for his extensive and detailed annotations to the classic historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms.
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B.
Ban Gu
Ban Gu was a prominent 1st-century Chinese historian and scholar of the Eastern Han dynasty, best known for authoring one of China’s most important official dynastic histories.
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C.
Dong Zhongshu
Dong Zhongshu was a prominent Han dynasty scholar and political philosopher who systematized Confucianism into an official state ideology, deeply shaping Chinese thought and governance.
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D.
Xun Kuang
Xun Kuang, better known as Xunzi, was an influential Warring States–period Confucian philosopher noted for his belief in the innate badness of human nature and the importance of ritual and education.
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E.
Liu Ban
Liu Ban was a Chinese scholar and official known for serving on the editorial team that compiled the historical chronicle Zizhi Tongjian.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confucian scholar
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Eastern Han dynasty person ⓘ |
| associatedWithTextualTradition |
New Text classics
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Old Text classics ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Beihai Commandery
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Gaomi ⓘ present-day Shandong, China ⓘ |
| birthYear | 127 ⓘ |
| chineseName |
鄭玄
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linked to:
Zheng Xuan
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| courtesyName | Kangcheng ⓘ |
| courtesyNameChinese | 康成 ⓘ |
| deathYear | 200 ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Eastern Han
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Han dynasty
|
| education | studied under Ma Rong ⓘ |
| era |
Later Han period
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linked to:
Eastern Han dynasty
|
| fieldOfWork |
Confucian classics
ⓘ
exegesis ⓘ philology ⓘ |
| heldOfficeUnder | Emperor Ling of Han ⓘ |
| influenced |
Later Han Confucianism
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linked to:
Han dynasty Confucian synthesis
Song dynasty Neo-Confucian scholars ⓘ Tang dynasty Confucian exegesis ⓘ |
| knownFor |
commentaries on the Five Classics
ⓘ
harmonizing Old Text and New Text Confucian traditions ⓘ influence on later Confucian scholarship ⓘ standardizing interpretations of the Confucian canon ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| legacy |
cited extensively by later Confucian commentators
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his commentaries became standard references in later dynasties ⓘ |
| methodologicalContribution |
philological analysis of classical texts
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synthesizing divergent textual traditions ⓘ |
| name | Zheng Xuan ⓘ |
| nationality | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| role |
commentator on the Chinese classics
ⓘ
government official ⓘ |
| schoolOrTradition |
Confucianism
ⓘ
New Text Confucianism ⓘ Old Text Confucianism ⓘ |
| studentOf | Ma Rong ⓘ |
| teacher | Ma Rong ⓘ |
| wroteCommentaryOn |
Analects of Confucius
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linked to:
Analects
Book of Documents ⓘ Book of Rites ⓘ Book of Songs ⓘ Classic of Changes (Yijing) ⓘ
linked to:
I Ching
Classic of Filial Piety ⓘ Etiquette and Ceremonial (Yili) ⓘ
linked to:
Ceremonies and Rites (Yili)
Spring and Autumn Annals ⓘ Zhou Rites ⓘ
linked to:
Zhou li
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Zheng Xuan Description of subject: Zheng Xuan was a prominent Eastern Han dynasty Confucian scholar best known for his influential commentaries on the Chinese classics.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Zheng Xuan
linked to: Zheng Xuan