Neidan
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Neidan is a traditional Daoist internal alchemy practice focused on refining body, mind, and spirit to achieve spiritual transformation and longevity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Neidan canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1625072 — 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: Neidan Context triple: [Wudang Mountains, associatedWithPhilosophy, Neidan]
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A.
Zhenwu
Zhenwu is a powerful Taoist deity associated with the north, martial protection, and spiritual cultivation, especially revered in Chinese religious and martial traditions.
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B.
Simatai section
The Simatai section is a steep, well-preserved and relatively unrestored stretch of the Great Wall of China in Beijing, renowned for its dramatic scenery and original Ming-era architecture.
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C.
Dadu
Dadu was the Yuan dynasty capital city established by Kublai Khan on the site of present-day Beijing, serving as the political and cultural center of his empire.
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D.
Zhenjin
Zhenjin was the designated heir and favored son of Kublai Khan, known for his Confucian education and role in the early Yuan dynasty’s administration before his premature death.
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E.
Tai Chi
Tai Chi is a traditional Chinese internal martial art and meditative practice characterized by slow, flowing movements that promote balance, health, and spiritual cultivation.
- 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: Neidan Target entity description: Neidan is a traditional Daoist internal alchemy practice focused on refining body, mind, and spirit to achieve spiritual transformation and longevity.
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A.
Zhenwu
Zhenwu is a powerful Taoist deity associated with the north, martial protection, and spiritual cultivation, especially revered in Chinese religious and martial traditions.
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B.
Simatai section
The Simatai section is a steep, well-preserved and relatively unrestored stretch of the Great Wall of China in Beijing, renowned for its dramatic scenery and original Ming-era architecture.
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C.
Dadu
Dadu was the Yuan dynasty capital city established by Kublai Khan on the site of present-day Beijing, serving as the political and cultural center of his empire.
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D.
Zhenjin
Zhenjin was the designated heir and favored son of Kublai Khan, known for his Confucian education and role in the early Yuan dynasty’s administration before his premature death.
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E.
Tai Chi
Tai Chi is a traditional Chinese internal martial art and meditative practice characterized by slow, flowing movements that promote balance, health, and spiritual cultivation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese esoteric tradition
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Daoist internal alchemy ⓘ Daoist practice ⓘ spiritual cultivation practice ⓘ |
| aimsFor |
immortality
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longevity ⓘ refinement of body ⓘ refinement of mind ⓘ refinement of spirit ⓘ spiritual transformation ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Waidan ⓘ |
| developedInPeriod |
Song dynasty
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Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| documentedIn | Daoist scriptures ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
cultivation of internal energies
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harmonization of body and mind ⓘ union of human and Dao ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
inner alchemy
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internal alchemy ⓘ nèidān ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
refining jing into qi
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refining qi into shen ⓘ refining shen and returning to emptiness ⓘ |
| influenced |
Chinese martial arts
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Qigong ⓘ Taijiquan ⓘ
linked to:
Tai Chi
|
| involvesPractice |
breath regulation
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energy circulation ⓘ meditation ⓘ moral self-cultivation ⓘ visualization ⓘ |
| originatesFrom | China ⓘ |
| partOfTradition |
Daoism
ⓘ
linked to:
Taoism
|
| relatedTo |
Chinese medicine
ⓘ
linked to:
Traditional Chinese medicine
Waidan ⓘ Yangsheng ⓘ |
| requires | guidance of a master ⓘ |
| transmittedAs | esoteric oral teachings ⓘ |
| usesConcept |
Five Phases
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Three Treasures ⓘ dantian ⓘ jing ⓘ meridians ⓘ microcosmic orbit ⓘ qi ⓘ shen ⓘ yin and yang ⓘ |
| viewedAs | path to realizing the Dao ⓘ |
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: Neidan Description of subject: Neidan is a traditional Daoist internal alchemy practice focused on refining body, mind, and spirit to achieve spiritual transformation and longevity.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.