Dazhi (Great Wisdom)
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Dazhi (Great Wisdom) is an honorific title signifying profound spiritual insight and enlightenment, traditionally bestowed on the Chan Buddhist master Shenxiu.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dazhi (Great Wisdom) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11770652 — 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: Dazhi (Great Wisdom) Context triple: [Shenxiu, honorificTitle, Dazhi (Great Wisdom)]
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A.
Heze Shenhui
Heze Shenhui was an influential early Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist monk known for vigorously promoting the Southern School associated with Huineng and shaping the later development of Chan doctrine.
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B.
Zhenming
Zhenming was the era name used during a specific reign period of the Later Liang dynasty in Chinese history.
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C.
Daozang
Daozang is the vast canonical collection of Taoist scriptures, rituals, and commentaries compiled over centuries as the primary literary foundation of Taoist religious and philosophical tradition.
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The Greatest Master
The Greatest Master is an honorific title most famously applied to the influential Sufi mystic and philosopher Ibn ʿArabī, revered for his profound spiritual insights and metaphysical writings.
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Mazu Daoyi
Mazu Daoyi was an influential 8th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) master renowned for his unconventional teaching methods and as a key figure in the development of the Hongzhou school of Chan Buddhism.
- 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: Dazhi (Great Wisdom) Target entity description: Dazhi (Great Wisdom) is an honorific title signifying profound spiritual insight and enlightenment, traditionally bestowed on the Chan Buddhist master Shenxiu.
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A.
Heze Shenhui
Heze Shenhui was an influential early Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist monk known for vigorously promoting the Southern School associated with Huineng and shaping the later development of Chan doctrine.
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B.
Zhenming
Zhenming was the era name used during a specific reign period of the Later Liang dynasty in Chinese history.
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C.
Daozang
Daozang is the vast canonical collection of Taoist scriptures, rituals, and commentaries compiled over centuries as the primary literary foundation of Taoist religious and philosophical tradition.
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D.
The Greatest Master
The Greatest Master is an honorific title most famously applied to the influential Sufi mystic and philosopher Ibn ʿArabī, revered for his profound spiritual insights and metaphysical writings.
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E.
Mazu Daoyi
Mazu Daoyi was an influential 8th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) master renowned for his unconventional teaching methods and as a key figure in the development of the Hongzhou school of Chan Buddhism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist title
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honorific title ⓘ religious epithet ⓘ |
| appliedAsTitle | Chan master ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Shenxiu ⓘ |
| bestowedOn | Shenxiu ⓘ |
| category |
Buddhist honorifics
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Chinese religious titles ⓘ |
| connotation | high spiritual attainment ⓘ |
| culturalSphere | Chinese Buddhism ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | Great Wisdom ⓘ |
| honorificFor |
Chan Buddhist master
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Shenxiu ⓘ |
| honorificLevel | exalted ⓘ |
| honors | Shenxiu’s spiritual realization ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Buddhism ⓘ |
| signifies |
enlightenment
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profound spiritual insight ⓘ |
| spiritualQualityEmphasized |
enlightened understanding
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insight ⓘ wisdom ⓘ |
| traditionallyLinkedTo | Northern School of Chan ⓘ |
| usedAs | posthumous or honorific style ⓘ |
| usedInTradition | Chan Buddhism ⓘ |
| writtenInChineseCharacters | 大智 ⓘ |
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: Dazhi (Great Wisdom) Description of subject: Dazhi (Great Wisdom) is an honorific title signifying profound spiritual insight and enlightenment, traditionally bestowed on the Chan Buddhist master Shenxiu.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.