Nanyue Huairang
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Nanyue Huairang was an influential Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist master of the Tang dynasty, best known as a key figure in the Southern School and teacher of the renowned monk Mazu Daoyi.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nanyue Huairang canonical | 4 |
| Nanyue | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11672900 — 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 Huairang Context triple: [Huineng, disciple, Nanyue Huairang]
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A.
Nanyue
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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B.
Guangdu
Guangdu is an ancient historical name for the area now known as Nanchong, a major city in Sichuan Province, China.
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C.
Guangyi
Guangyi was a warship that served in China's late 19th-century Beiyang Fleet, one of the Qing dynasty's principal modern naval forces.
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D.
Houzhu
Houzhu is the posthumous temple name of Liu Shan, the last emperor of the Shu Han state during China’s Three Kingdoms period.
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E.
Yuanhong
Yuanhong is a Chinese given name that appears in the full name of the historical figure Li Yuanhong.
- 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 Huairang Target entity description: Nanyue Huairang was an influential Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist master of the Tang dynasty, best known as a key figure in the Southern School and teacher of the renowned monk Mazu Daoyi.
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A.
Nanyue
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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B.
Guangdu
Guangdu is an ancient historical name for the area now known as Nanchong, a major city in Sichuan Province, China.
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C.
Guangyi
Guangyi was a warship that served in China's late 19th-century Beiyang Fleet, one of the Qing dynasty's principal modern naval forces.
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D.
Houzhu
Houzhu is the posthumous temple name of Liu Shan, the last emperor of the Shu Han state during China’s Three Kingdoms period.
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E.
Yuanhong
Yuanhong is a Chinese given name that appears in the full name of the historical figure Li Yuanhong.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chan Buddhist master
ⓘ
Chinese Zen master ⓘ Tang dynasty Buddhist monk ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 8th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Mount Nanyue ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| doctrine | Southern School doctrine of sudden enlightenment ⓘ |
| era | Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Chan master ⓘ |
| influenced |
Hongzhou school of Chan
ⓘ
Mazu Daoyi ⓘ development of Chinese Chan Buddhism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a key figure of the Southern School of Chan
ⓘ
influential role in early Chan lineage formation ⓘ teaching Mazu Daoyi ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Chinese ⓘ |
| monasticNameContains |
Nanyue
ⓘ
linked to:
Nanyue Huairang
|
| movement | Southern School of Chan ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Mazu Daoyi ⓘ |
| partOf |
Huineng lineage
ⓘ
linked to:
Hongzhou school of Chan
|
| philosophicalFocus |
non-duality
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sudden enlightenment ⓘ |
| region |
Hunan
ⓘ
linked to:
Hunan Province
|
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| role | Chan patriarch ⓘ |
| school | Hongzhou school precursor ⓘ |
| teacher | Huineng ⓘ |
| tradition |
Chan Buddhism
ⓘ
Zen Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Zen
|
| veneratedIn |
Chan Buddhism
ⓘ
Zen Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Zen
|
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 Huairang Description of subject: Nanyue Huairang was an influential Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist master of the Tang dynasty, best known as a key figure in the Southern School and teacher of the renowned monk Mazu Daoyi.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nanyue Huairang