Sima Yi
E190263
Sima Yi was a prominent Chinese military strategist and statesman who played a pivotal role in the rise of the Cao Wei state during the late Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms period.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sima Yi canonical | 51 |
| Sima Yi served in a supporting role on Cao Cao’s side | 1 |
| Sima Yi was a general of Cao Wei | 1 |
| Sima Yi, regent of Wei | 1 |
| Zhang He | 1 |
| 司馬懿 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1626132 — 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: Sima Yi Context triple: [Three Kingdoms period, notableFigure, Sima Yi]
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A.
Cao Wei
Cao Wei was a powerful Chinese state founded by the Cao family that ruled northern China during the Three Kingdoms period following the fall of the Han dynasty.
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B.
Zhuge Liang
Zhuge Liang was a renowned Chinese statesman, strategist, and military tactician who served the Shu Han state during the late Eastern Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms period.
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C.
Shu Chien
Shu Chien is a renowned Chinese-American physiologist and bioengineer recognized for pioneering contributions to cardiovascular biomechanics and microcirculation research.
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D.
Ma Biao
Ma Biao was a prominent Chinese Muslim general of the National Revolutionary Army who played key roles in several major campaigns during the Republican era.
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E.
Sun Quan
Sun Quan was the founding emperor of Eastern Wu, a major state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for his political acumen and long, stable reign.
- 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: Sima Yi Target entity description: Sima Yi was a prominent Chinese military strategist and statesman who played a pivotal role in the rise of the Cao Wei state during the late Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms period.
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A.
Cao Wei
Cao Wei was a powerful Chinese state founded by the Cao family that ruled northern China during the Three Kingdoms period following the fall of the Han dynasty.
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B.
Zhuge Liang
Zhuge Liang was a renowned Chinese statesman, strategist, and military tactician who served the Shu Han state during the late Eastern Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms period.
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C.
Shu Chien
Shu Chien is a renowned Chinese-American physiologist and bioengineer recognized for pioneering contributions to cardiovascular biomechanics and microcirculation research.
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D.
Ma Biao
Ma Biao was a prominent Chinese Muslim general of the National Revolutionary Army who played key roles in several major campaigns during the Republican era.
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E.
Sun Quan
Sun Quan was the founding emperor of Eastern Wu, a major state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for his political acumen and long, stable reign.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Sima Yi Description of subject: Sima Yi was a prominent Chinese military strategist and statesman who played a pivotal role in the rise of the Cao Wei state during the late Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms period.
Referenced by (56)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sima Yi
linked to: Sima Yi
linked to: Sima Yi
subject linked to:
Battle of Fancheng (support role in Cao Cao’s campaigns)
subject linked to:
Battle of Fancheng (support role in Cao Cao’s campaigns)
linked to: Sima Yi
Liaodong campaign against Gongsun Yuan
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militaryLeaderAffiliation
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Sima Yi was a general of Cao Wei
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linked to: Sima Yi