Qu Yuan
E184517
Qu Yuan was an ancient Chinese poet and statesman of the Warring States period, renowned for his patriotic verse and associated with the origins of the Dragon Boat Festival.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1625129 — 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: Qu Yuan Context triple: [State of Chu, notableFigure, Qu Yuan]
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A.
poet Cui Hao
Cui Hao was a prominent Tang dynasty poet best known for his celebrated poem about Yellow Crane Tower, which has secured his lasting place in Chinese literary history.
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B.
Song Shilun
Song Shilun was a prominent Chinese general of the People’s Volunteer Army during the Korean War, noted for leading Chinese forces in major campaigns against United Nations troops.
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C.
He Zizhen
He Zizhen was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist Party member best known as one of Mao Zedong’s wives and a participant in the Long March.
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D.
Ding Ruchang
Ding Ruchang was a late Qing dynasty Chinese naval officer best known for leading the Beiyang Fleet during the First Sino-Japanese War.
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E.
Shan Zuchang
Shan Zuchang is a Chinese businessman best known for serving as chairman of English football club West Bromwich Albion.
- 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: Qu Yuan Target entity description: Qu Yuan was an ancient Chinese poet and statesman of the Warring States period, renowned for his patriotic verse and associated with the origins of the Dragon Boat Festival.
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A.
poet Cui Hao
Cui Hao was a prominent Tang dynasty poet best known for his celebrated poem about Yellow Crane Tower, which has secured his lasting place in Chinese literary history.
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B.
Song Shilun
Song Shilun was a prominent Chinese general of the People’s Volunteer Army during the Korean War, noted for leading Chinese forces in major campaigns against United Nations troops.
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C.
He Zizhen
He Zizhen was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist Party member best known as one of Mao Zedong’s wives and a participant in the Long March.
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D.
Ding Ruchang
Ding Ruchang was a late Qing dynasty Chinese naval officer best known for leading the Beiyang Fleet during the First Sino-Japanese War.
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E.
Shan Zuchang
Shan Zuchang is a Chinese businessman best known for serving as chairman of English football club West Bromwich Albion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese poet
ⓘ
Warring States period person ⓘ person ⓘ poet ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| allegiance | State of Chu ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dragon Boat Festival
ⓘ
Duanwu Festival ⓘ
linked to:
Dragon Boat Festival
|
| canonicalStatus | founding figure of the Chu Ci tradition ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide by drowning ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
Dragon boat races
ⓘ
eating zongzi on Duanwu Festival ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Chu ⓘ |
| culturalDepiction | subject of temple worship in parts of China ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | circa 278 BCE ⓘ |
| employer |
court of King Huai of Chu
ⓘ
linked to:
State of Chu
state of Chu government ⓘ
linked to:
State of Chu
|
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Qu ⓘ |
| floruit |
3rd century BCE
ⓘ
4th century BCE ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Yuan ⓘ |
| hasPartInCollection | Chu Ci ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | key figure in Chinese intangible cultural heritage narratives ⓘ |
| influenced |
Chinese romantic literature
ⓘ
Han dynasty poets ⓘ Song dynasty poets ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influence on Chinese literature
ⓘ
loyalty to the state of Chu ⓘ patriotic poetry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
elegy
ⓘ
lyric poetry ⓘ |
| movement | Classical Chinese poetry ⓘ |
| name | Qu Yuan ⓘ |
| nativeName |
屈原
ⓘ
linked to:
Qu Yuan
|
| nativeNameLanguage | zh ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Jiu Ge
ⓘ
Jiu Zhang ⓘ Li Sao ⓘ Tian Wen ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
ⓘ
poet ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Miluo River
ⓘ
near present-day Miluo, Hunan, China ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | opponent of Qin expansion ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
minister of the State of Chu
ⓘ
royal advisor in Chu ⓘ |
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: Qu Yuan Description of subject: Qu Yuan was an ancient Chinese poet and statesman of the Warring States period, renowned for his patriotic verse and associated with the origins of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.