Wu Peifu
E162656
Wu Peifu was a prominent Chinese warlord and military strategist of the early Republic era, known as a leading figure of the Zhili clique who opposed the Kuomintang’s unification efforts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wu Peifu canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1391373 — 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: Wu Peifu Context triple: [Northern Expedition, opponent, Wu Peifu]
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A.
Feng Yuxiang
Feng Yuxiang was a prominent Chinese warlord and nationalist general known for his shifting alliances, modernization efforts, and significant role in the early 20th-century Chinese military and political landscape.
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B.
Zhang Zuolin
Zhang Zuolin was a powerful Chinese warlord who controlled Manchuria and led the Fengtian clique during the turbulent Warlord Era of the early 20th century.
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C.
Li Zongren
Li Zongren was a prominent Chinese military commander and political leader of the early 20th century who played key roles in the Northern Expedition and the Second Sino-Japanese War, later briefly serving as acting president of the Republic of China.
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D.
Bai Chongxi
Bai Chongxi was a prominent Chinese Muslim general and strategist who played a key role in the Nationalist government’s military campaigns during the early 20th century, including the Northern Expedition and the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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E.
Yan Xishan
Yan Xishan was a prominent Chinese warlord and political leader who controlled Shanxi province for decades and played a significant role in Republican-era Chinese military and political affairs.
- 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: Wu Peifu Target entity description: Wu Peifu was a prominent Chinese warlord and military strategist of the early Republic era, known as a leading figure of the Zhili clique who opposed the Kuomintang’s unification efforts.
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A.
Feng Yuxiang
Feng Yuxiang was a prominent Chinese warlord and nationalist general known for his shifting alliances, modernization efforts, and significant role in the early 20th-century Chinese military and political landscape.
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B.
Zhang Zuolin
Zhang Zuolin was a powerful Chinese warlord who controlled Manchuria and led the Fengtian clique during the turbulent Warlord Era of the early 20th century.
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C.
Li Zongren
Li Zongren was a prominent Chinese military commander and political leader of the early 20th century who played key roles in the Northern Expedition and the Second Sino-Japanese War, later briefly serving as acting president of the Republic of China.
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D.
Bai Chongxi
Bai Chongxi was a prominent Chinese Muslim general and strategist who played a key role in the Nationalist government’s military campaigns during the early 20th century, including the Northern Expedition and the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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E.
Yan Xishan
Yan Xishan was a prominent Chinese warlord and political leader who controlled Shanxi province for decades and played a significant role in Republican-era Chinese military and political affairs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Wu Peifu Description of subject: Wu Peifu was a prominent Chinese warlord and military strategist of the early Republic era, known as a leading figure of the Zhili clique who opposed the Kuomintang’s unification efforts.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
“Jade Marshal”
subject linked to:
“Jade Marshal”
subject linked to:
“Jade Marshal”