Gu Weijun
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Gu Weijun, better known internationally as V. K. Wellington Koo, was a prominent Chinese diplomat and statesman who represented China at major 20th-century international conferences and served in key ambassadorial and governmental roles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gu Weijun canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10206020 — 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: Gu Weijun Context triple: [V. K. Wellington Koo, alsoKnownAs, Gu Weijun]
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A.
Jiang Weijun
Jiang Weijun is the birth name of Ding Ling, a prominent 20th-century Chinese writer and revolutionary known for her influential leftist literature and feminist themes.
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B.
Zhu Jianhua
Zhu Jianhua is a former Chinese high jumper who set multiple world records in the 1980s and won a bronze medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
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C.
Liu Wenhui
Liu Wenhui was a Chinese warlord and Kuomintang general who controlled parts of Sichuan during the Republican era.
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D.
Liang Xinjun
Liang Xinjun is a Chinese entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former executive of the diversified conglomerate Fosun Group.
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E.
Zhang Jun
Zhang Jun is a Chinese jurist and senior official who serves as the President and Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court of 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: Gu Weijun Target entity description: Gu Weijun, better known internationally as V. K. Wellington Koo, was a prominent Chinese diplomat and statesman who represented China at major 20th-century international conferences and served in key ambassadorial and governmental roles.
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A.
Jiang Weijun
Jiang Weijun is the birth name of Ding Ling, a prominent 20th-century Chinese writer and revolutionary known for her influential leftist literature and feminist themes.
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B.
Zhu Jianhua
Zhu Jianhua is a former Chinese high jumper who set multiple world records in the 1980s and won a bronze medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
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C.
Liu Wenhui
Liu Wenhui was a Chinese warlord and Kuomintang general who controlled parts of Sichuan during the Republican era.
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D.
Liang Xinjun
Liang Xinjun is a Chinese entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former executive of the diversified conglomerate Fosun Group.
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E.
Zhang Jun
Zhang Jun is a Chinese jurist and senior official who serves as the President and Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court of China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ambassador
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diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| burialPlace | New York State ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1888-01-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1985-11-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia Law School
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Columbia University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Gu ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
diplomacy
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international law ⓘ international relations ⓘ |
| givenName | Weijun ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Chinese
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Chinese delegation to the League of Nations
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Chinese delegation to the Paris Peace Conference ⓘ
linked to:
Shandong Question at Versailles
Chinese delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization ⓘ Chinese delegation to the Washington Naval Conference ⓘ |
| nameInChinese | 顧維鈞 ⓘ |
| nameInEnglish | V. K. Wellington Koo ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocating revision of unequal treaties
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defending Chinese interests at the Paris Peace Conference ⓘ early Chinese participation in the League of Nations ⓘ role in founding of the United Nations ⓘ |
| occupation |
ambassador
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diplomat ⓘ jurist ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| participantIn |
League of Nations assemblies
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linked to:
League of Nations Assembly
Paris Peace Conference 1919 ⓘ
linked to:
Paris Peace Conference
United Nations founding conference ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco Conference
Washington Naval Conference ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Shanghai ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chinese Ambassador to France
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linked to:
Ambassador of China to France
Chinese Ambassador to the League of Nations ⓘ Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom ⓘ Chinese Ambassador to the United States ⓘ Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China ⓘ Premier of the Republic of China ⓘ |
| represented | Republic of China ⓘ |
| roleInEvent |
Chinese delegate at the Paris Peace Conference 1919
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Chinese representative at the League of Nations ⓘ Chinese representative at the United Nations founding conference ⓘ Chinese representative at the Washington Naval Conference ⓘ |
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: Gu Weijun Description of subject: Gu Weijun, better known internationally as V. K. Wellington Koo, was a prominent Chinese diplomat and statesman who represented China at major 20th-century international conferences and served in key ambassadorial and governmental roles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
V. K. Wellington Koo (Wellington Koo Ball by marriage)