Nanyue
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Nanyue was an ancient kingdom that existed from the 2nd century BCE in what is now southern China and northern Vietnam, serving as a significant regional power and cultural crossroads between Han China and Southeast Asia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nanyue canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11134629 — 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: Nanyue Context triple: [Northern Vietnam, historicallyPartOf, Nanyue]
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A.
Wuyue
Wuyue was a prosperous coastal kingdom in southeastern China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, renowned for its maritime trade, cultural achievements, and extensive water management projects.
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B.
Zeng state
The Zeng state was a minor ancient Chinese vassal state during the Zhou dynasty, known primarily from rich archaeological finds such as the Tomb of Marquis Yi.
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C.
Gao Kingdom
The Gao Kingdom was an early West African state centered on the city of Gao that laid the foundations for the later expansion and dominance of the Songhai Empire.
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D.
Cheng Han
Cheng Han was a short-lived Chinese state of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, founded by the Di ethnic group in Sichuan after the decline of the Western Jin dynasty.
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E.
Hòu Zhōu
Hòu Zhōu was the Chinese dynasty known in English as the Later Zhou, one of the Five Dynasties that ruled northern China in the 10th century.
- 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: Nanyue Target entity description: Nanyue was an ancient kingdom that existed from the 2nd century BCE in what is now southern China and northern Vietnam, serving as a significant regional power and cultural crossroads between Han China and Southeast Asia.
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A.
Wuyue
Wuyue was a prosperous coastal kingdom in southeastern China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, renowned for its maritime trade, cultural achievements, and extensive water management projects.
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B.
Zeng state
The Zeng state was a minor ancient Chinese vassal state during the Zhou dynasty, known primarily from rich archaeological finds such as the Tomb of Marquis Yi.
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C.
Gao Kingdom
The Gao Kingdom was an early West African state centered on the city of Gao that laid the foundations for the later expansion and dominance of the Songhai Empire.
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D.
Cheng Han
Cheng Han was a short-lived Chinese state of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, founded by the Di ethnic group in Sichuan after the decline of the Western Jin dynasty.
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E.
Hòu Zhōu
Hòu Zhōu was the Chinese dynasty known in English as the Later Zhou, one of the Five Dynasties that ruled northern China in the 10th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
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ancient kingdom ⓘ historical state ⓘ king ⓘ monarchy ⓘ |
| capital | Panyu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conqueredBy | Han dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
China
ⓘ
Qin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ Viet Nam ⓘ
surface form:
Vietnam
|
| currency | Chinese-style coinage ⓘ |
| diplomaticRelation |
Han dynasty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Minyue NERFINISHED ⓘ Âu Lạc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endCause | Han conquest ⓘ |
| endTime | 111 BCE ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Han Chinese
ⓘ
Yue peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| followed | Qin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Zhao Tuo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | hereditary monarchy ⓘ |
| hasTitle | King of Nanyue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
acting as a cultural crossroads between Han China and Southeast Asia
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blending Han and Yue cultures ⓘ bronze culture ⓘ maritime trade ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Guangdong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guangzhou ⓘ Lingnan region NERFINISHED ⓘ Pearl River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Vietnam ⓘ southern China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | Qin general ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Classical Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of China
ⓘ
history of Vietnam ⓘ |
| precededBy | Qin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Guangdong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guangxi NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Vietnam ⓘ |
| religion |
Chinese folk religion
ⓘ
local indigenous beliefs ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
annexation by Emperor Wu of Han
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founding by Zhao Tuo after collapse of Qin ⓘ |
| startTime | 204 BCE ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
2nd century BCE
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Han dynasty era NERFINISHED ⓘ post-Qin period ⓘ |
| usedScript | Chinese characters ⓘ |
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: Nanyue Description of subject: Nanyue was an ancient kingdom that existed from the 2nd century BCE in what is now southern China and northern Vietnam, serving as a significant regional power and cultural crossroads between Han China and Southeast Asia.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Northern Vietnam
subject surface form:
Minyue
subject surface form:
Minyue
subject surface form:
Minyue