present-day Xinxing County, Guangdong, China
E940248
Present-day Xinxing County in Guangdong, China is a historically significant county best known as the birthplace of Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| present-day Xinxing County, Guangdong, China canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11672890 — 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: present-day Xinxing County, Guangdong, China Context triple: [Huineng, birthPlace, present-day Xinxing County, Guangdong, China]
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A.
Xiangshan County, Guangdong, Qing Empire
Xiangshan County, Guangdong, in the Qing Empire was a historical county in southern China best known as the birthplace of revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen.
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B.
Xinhui, Guangdong, Qing Empire
Xinhui, Guangdong, Qing Empire was a county-level region in southern China’s Guangdong Province during the late imperial era, historically notable as the birthplace of influential reformist intellectual Liang Qichao.
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C.
Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire
Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire was a historical administrative region in southern China known as the ancestral homeland of many Hakka people and later recognized as the birthplace of prominent Chinese marshal and politician Ye Jianying.
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D.
Wuhua County, Guangdong
Wuhua County, Guangdong is a county in eastern Guangdong Province, China, known as a major center of Hakka culture and language.
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E.
Xiangshan County, Zhejiang, China
Xiangshan County in Zhejiang, China is a coastal county known for its fishing industry, scenic seaside landscapes, and role as the birthplace of several notable Chinese politicians and cultural figures.
- 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: present-day Xinxing County, Guangdong, China Target entity description: Present-day Xinxing County in Guangdong, China is a historically significant county best known as the birthplace of Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism.
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A.
Xiangshan County, Guangdong, Qing Empire
Xiangshan County, Guangdong, in the Qing Empire was a historical county in southern China best known as the birthplace of revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen.
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B.
Xinhui, Guangdong, Qing Empire
Xinhui, Guangdong, Qing Empire was a county-level region in southern China’s Guangdong Province during the late imperial era, historically notable as the birthplace of influential reformist intellectual Liang Qichao.
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C.
Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire
Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire was a historical administrative region in southern China known as the ancestral homeland of many Hakka people and later recognized as the birthplace of prominent Chinese marshal and politician Ye Jianying.
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D.
Wuhua County, Guangdong
Wuhua County, Guangdong is a county in eastern Guangdong Province, China, known as a major center of Hakka culture and language.
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E.
Xiangshan County, Zhejiang, China
Xiangshan County in Zhejiang, China is a coastal county known for its fishing industry, scenic seaside landscapes, and role as the birthplace of several notable Chinese politicians and cultural figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chan Buddhist patriarch
ⓘ
administrative division of China ⓘ county-level division ⓘ |
| administrativeLevel | county ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Xinxing County ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| governingBody | People's Government of Xinxing County ⓘ |
| hasChineseName | 新兴县 ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
light industry ⓘ tourism related to Buddhist heritage ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRole | important site in the development of Chinese Chan Buddhism ⓘ |
| hasPinyinName | Xīnxīng Xiàn ⓘ |
| hasType | rural county ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the birthplace of Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism
ⓘ
historical significance in Chan (Zen) Buddhism ⓘ |
| language |
Cantonese
ⓘ
Mandarin Chinese ⓘ local Yue dialects ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Guangdong Province
ⓘ
Pearl River Delta hinterland ⓘ
linked to:
Pearl River Delta
Southern China ⓘ
linked to:
southern China
Yunfu, Guangdong ⓘ
linked to:
Yunfu
|
| locatedInHistoricalRegion | Lingnan ⓘ |
| notablePersonBornHere | Huineng ⓘ |
| partOf |
Yunfu City
ⓘ
linked to:
Yunfu
|
| religiousHeritage | Chan Buddhist temples and sites associated with Huineng ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | People's Government of Yunfu City ⓘ |
| timeZone | China Standard Time ⓘ |
| title | Sixth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +8 ⓘ |
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: present-day Xinxing County, Guangdong, China Description of subject: Present-day Xinxing County in Guangdong, China is a historically significant county best known as the birthplace of Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.