Yixuan
E940265
Yixuan was a prominent Chinese Chan (Zen) master of the Tang dynasty, better known as Linji Yixuan, whose teachings founded the influential Linji school of Zen Buddhism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yixuan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11673000 — 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: Yixuan Context triple: [Linji Yixuan, religiousName, Yixuan]
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A.
Xue Yue
Xue Yue was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general renowned for his leadership in key battles against Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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B.
Xuwen
Xuwen is a coastal county in Guangdong Province, China, known as a key mainland gateway and port facing Hainan Island across the Qiongzhou Strait.
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C.
Yixin
Yixin, better known as Prince Gong, was a prominent Qing dynasty statesman and imperial prince who played a key role in 19th-century Chinese diplomacy and reform efforts.
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D.
Shaoqi
Shaoqi is the given name of Liu Shaoqi, a prominent Chinese revolutionary leader and former President of the People’s Republic of China.
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E.
Haiming
Haiming is a municipality in the Altötting district of Bavaria, Germany, known for its rural character and location near the Austrian border.
- 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: Yixuan Target entity description: Yixuan was a prominent Chinese Chan (Zen) master of the Tang dynasty, better known as Linji Yixuan, whose teachings founded the influential Linji school of Zen Buddhism.
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A.
Xue Yue
Xue Yue was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general renowned for his leadership in key battles against Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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B.
Xuwen
Xuwen is a coastal county in Guangdong Province, China, known as a key mainland gateway and port facing Hainan Island across the Qiongzhou Strait.
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C.
Yixin
Yixin, better known as Prince Gong, was a prominent Qing dynasty statesman and imperial prince who played a key role in 19th-century Chinese diplomacy and reform efforts.
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D.
Shaoqi
Shaoqi is the given name of Liu Shaoqi, a prominent Chinese revolutionary leader and former President of the People’s Republic of China.
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E.
Haiming
Haiming is a municipality in the Altötting district of Bavaria, Germany, known for its rural character and location near the Austrian border.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist monk
ⓘ
Chan master ⓘ Chinese religious leader ⓘ Tang dynasty person ⓘ founder of a Buddhist school ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Linji Yixuan
ⓘ
Línjì Yìxuán ⓘ
linked to:
Linji Yixuan
Master Linji ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Linji Monastery (later tradition)
ⓘ
linked to:
Linji Monastery
|
| centuryOfActivity | 9th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| deathPlace | China (traditional accounts) ⓘ |
| doctrine |
Buddha-nature present in all beings
ⓘ
de-emphasis of textual study in favor of direct experience ⓘ |
| era | Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| founderOf |
Linji school
ⓘ
linked to:
Linji school of Chan
|
| hasHonorificTitle | Chan patriarch ⓘ |
| influenced |
Chinese Chan Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Chan Buddhism
Japanese Zen Buddhism ⓘ Korean Seon Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Korean Buddhism
Vietnamese Thiền Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Thiền Buddhism
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| legacy |
namesake of many Linji/Rinzai temples
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one of the most influential Chan masters in East Asia ⓘ |
| movement |
Linji school
ⓘ
linked to:
Linji school of Chan
|
| notableIdea |
emphasis on sudden enlightenment
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iconoclastic approach to Buddhist scriptures ⓘ use of shouting (katsu) in teaching ⓘ use of striking with a staff in teaching ⓘ “true person of no rank” teaching ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Recorded Sayings of Linji (Linji lu)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Record of Linji
|
| philosophicalFocus |
emptiness (śūnyatā)
ⓘ
non-duality ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Hebei region (traditional attribution)
ⓘ
North China ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousOrder | Chan monastic community ⓘ |
| roleInReligion | patriarch of the Linji lineage ⓘ |
| schoolOfThought |
Rinzai Zen (Japanese transmission of Linji)
ⓘ
linked to:
Rinzai
|
| teachingMethod |
direct pointing to mind
ⓘ
paradoxical dialogues (gong’an / koan style) ⓘ |
| tradition |
Chan Buddhism
ⓘ
Zen Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Zen
|
| veneratedIn |
Linji school
ⓘ
linked to:
Linji school of Chan
Rinzai school ⓘ
linked to:
Rinzai
|
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: Yixuan Description of subject: Yixuan was a prominent Chinese Chan (Zen) master of the Tang dynasty, better known as Linji Yixuan, whose teachings founded the influential Linji school of Zen Buddhism.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.