King Lie of Zhou
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King Lie of Zhou was an Eastern Zhou dynasty monarch who ruled the weakened Zhou royal house during the Warring States period in ancient China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| King Lie of Zhou canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10691314 — 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: King Lie of Zhou Context triple: [King Xian of Zhou, predecessor, King Lie of Zhou]
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King Gong of Chu
King Gong of Chu was a monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Chu who ruled during the Spring and Autumn period, continuing the lineage after the renowned King Zhuang of Chu.
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B.
King You of Zhou
King You of Zhou was the last king of the Western Zhou dynasty, infamous for his misrule and the events that led to the dynasty’s collapse.
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C.
King of Yue
The King of Yue was the monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Yue, best known from the Spring and Autumn period for rulers like Goujian who famously rebuilt their power after defeat by the state of Wu.
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D.
King Cheng of Zhou
King Cheng of Zhou was an early Western Zhou dynasty ruler in ancient China, known for consolidating royal authority and granting hereditary fiefs to regional clans and nobles.
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E.
King of Zhou
The King of Zhou was the monarch of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China, regarded as the nominal supreme ruler and source of political legitimacy for the various feudal states.
- 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: King Lie of Zhou Target entity description: King Lie of Zhou was an Eastern Zhou dynasty monarch who ruled the weakened Zhou royal house during the Warring States period in ancient China.
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A.
King Gong of Chu
King Gong of Chu was a monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Chu who ruled during the Spring and Autumn period, continuing the lineage after the renowned King Zhuang of Chu.
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B.
King You of Zhou
King You of Zhou was the last king of the Western Zhou dynasty, infamous for his misrule and the events that led to the dynasty’s collapse.
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C.
King of Yue
The King of Yue was the monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Yue, best known from the Spring and Autumn period for rulers like Goujian who famously rebuilt their power after defeat by the state of Wu.
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D.
King Cheng of Zhou
King Cheng of Zhou was an early Western Zhou dynasty ruler in ancient China, known for consolidating royal authority and granting hereditary fiefs to regional clans and nobles.
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E.
King of Zhou
The King of Zhou was the monarch of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China, regarded as the nominal supreme ruler and source of political legitimacy for the various feudal states.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Zhou dynasty monarch
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ancient Chinese ruler ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Zhou royal rituals ⓘ |
| capital |
Chengzhou
ⓘ
linked to:
Zhengzhou
Wangcheng ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| dynasty | Zhou dynasty ⓘ |
| era |
late Eastern Zhou
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Zhou
|
| familyName | Ji ⓘ |
| father | King An of Zhou ⓘ |
| givenName | Hu ⓘ |
| governmentForm | hereditary monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalContext | nominal overlordship over feudal states ⓘ |
| house | House of Ji ⓘ |
| knownFor |
limited control over powerful Warring States
ⓘ
ruling during decline of Zhou royal power ⓘ |
| language | Old Chinese ⓘ |
| period |
Eastern Zhou
ⓘ
Warring States period ⓘ |
| personalName | Ji Hu ⓘ |
| position | King of Zhou ⓘ |
| predecessor | King An of Zhou ⓘ |
| reignTitle | King Lie of Zhou ⓘ |
| religion | Chinese folk religion ⓘ |
| royalHouseStatus | weakened central authority ⓘ |
| sovereigntyType | nominal suzerain over vassal states ⓘ |
| stateRuled | Zhou ⓘ |
| successor | King Xian of Zhou ⓘ |
| templeName | Lie Wang ⓘ |
| title | Son of Heaven ⓘ |
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: King Lie of Zhou Description of subject: King Lie of Zhou was an Eastern Zhou dynasty monarch who ruled the weakened Zhou royal house during the Warring States period in ancient China.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.