Tianming
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Tianming was the reign title adopted by Jurchen leader Nurhaci for the early phase of his rule, marking the foundational era of the Later Jin state that preceded the Qing dynasty in China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tianming canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11674754 — 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: Tianming Context triple: [Nurhaci, eraName, Tianming]
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A.
Tianming
Tianming is the Chinese philosophical and political doctrine asserting that a ruler’s legitimacy is granted by a transcendent moral order and can be revoked if they govern unjustly.
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B.
Zhengming
Zhengming is a Chinese given name commonly used for males and borne by various individuals across different fields.
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C.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a late 19th-century Chinese ironclad battleship of the Beiyang Fleet that played a prominent role in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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D.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a regnal era of the Tang dynasty marked by Emperor Dezong’s efforts to stabilize imperial authority and restore central control after periods of rebellion and fragmentation.
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E.
Shenfeng
Shenfeng was a historical Chinese era name used during the reign of Sun Quan, ruler of Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms period.
- 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: Tianming Target entity description: Tianming was the reign title adopted by Jurchen leader Nurhaci for the early phase of his rule, marking the foundational era of the Later Jin state that preceded the Qing dynasty in China.
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A.
Tianming
Tianming is the Chinese philosophical and political doctrine asserting that a ruler’s legitimacy is granted by a transcendent moral order and can be revoked if they govern unjustly.
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B.
Zhengming
Zhengming is a Chinese given name commonly used for males and borne by various individuals across different fields.
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C.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a regnal era of the Tang dynasty marked by Emperor Dezong’s efforts to stabilize imperial authority and restore central control after periods of rebellion and fragmentation.
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D.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a late 19th-century Chinese ironclad battleship of the Beiyang Fleet that played a prominent role in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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E.
Shenfeng
Shenfeng was a historical Chinese era name used during the reign of Sun Quan, ruler of Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
era name
ⓘ
reign title ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Later Jin ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty |
Qing dynasty (predecessor state)
ⓘ
linked to:
Qing dynasty
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| associatedEthnicGroup | Jurchen ⓘ |
| associatedRuler | Nurhaci ⓘ |
| associatedState | Later Jin ⓘ |
| associatedWithPoliticalEntity |
Jianzhou Jurchens
ⓘ
linked to:
Jurchen
|
| capitalDuringEra | Hetu Ala ⓘ |
| chronologicalPosition | first reign title of the Later Jin ⓘ |
| country | Later Jin ⓘ |
| endTime | 1627 ⓘ |
| etymology | literally means “Heaven’s Mandate” ⓘ |
| follows | Ming dynasty era names in Nurhaci’s domain ⓘ |
| hasChineseName | 天命 ⓘ |
| hasNotableEvent |
consolidation of Jurchen tribes
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formal proclamation of the Later Jin state ⓘ military campaigns against the Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| hasType | imperial reign era ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
late Ming dynasty period
ⓘ
linked to:
late Ming dynasty
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| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | early 17th century ⓘ |
| partOf | Chinese imperial era naming system ⓘ |
| precedes | Tiancong ⓘ |
| precedesInDynasticHistory | Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| region |
Manchuria
ⓘ
Northeast Asia ⓘ |
| religionContext | Mandate of Heaven ideology ⓘ |
| script | Chinese characters ⓘ |
| significance | foundational era of the Later Jin state ⓘ |
| startTime | 1616 ⓘ |
| transliteration | Tiānmìng ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Jurchen leader Nurhaci
ⓘ
linked to:
Nurhaci
Nurhaci ⓘ |
| usedFor |
legitimizing the Later Jin regime
ⓘ
marking Nurhaci’s rule ⓘ |
| usedInHistoriography | to designate Nurhaci’s reign period ⓘ |
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: Tianming Description of subject: Tianming was the reign title adopted by Jurchen leader Nurhaci for the early phase of his rule, marking the foundational era of the Later Jin state that preceded the Qing dynasty in China.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.