Liu Shan
E201922
Liu Shan was the second and last emperor of the Shu Han state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, remembered for his weak rule and the eventual fall of his kingdom to Wei.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Liu Shan canonical | 9 |
| Later Lord of Shu (Houzhu of Shu) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1626126 — 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: Liu Shan Context triple: [Three Kingdoms period, notableRuler, Liu Shan]
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Cao Rui
Cao Rui was the second emperor of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for consolidating imperial power and overseeing significant construction projects.
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Emperor Xian of Han
Emperor Xian of Han was the last emperor of the Eastern Han dynasty, whose reign marked the effective end of imperial Han authority and the rise of the warlord-dominated Three Kingdoms period in China.
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C.
Wei Lihuang
Wei Lihuang was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general best known for his leadership of Chinese forces against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
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D.
Taichang Emperor
The Taichang Emperor was a short-reigning Ming dynasty emperor of China whose sudden death in 1620 contributed to political instability and factional conflict at the late Ming court.
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E.
Emperor Ling of Han
Emperor Ling of Han was a late Eastern Han dynasty ruler whose ineffective governance and court corruption significantly contributed to the empire’s decline and the turmoil preceding the Three Kingdoms period.
- 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: Liu Shan Target entity description: Liu Shan was the second and last emperor of the Shu Han state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, remembered for his weak rule and the eventual fall of his kingdom to Wei.
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A.
Cao Rui
Cao Rui was the second emperor of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for consolidating imperial power and overseeing significant construction projects.
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B.
Emperor Xian of Han
Emperor Xian of Han was the last emperor of the Eastern Han dynasty, whose reign marked the effective end of imperial Han authority and the rise of the warlord-dominated Three Kingdoms period in China.
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C.
Wei Lihuang
Wei Lihuang was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general best known for his leadership of Chinese forces against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
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D.
Taichang Emperor
The Taichang Emperor was a short-reigning Ming dynasty emperor of China whose sudden death in 1620 contributed to political instability and factional conflict at the late Ming court.
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E.
Emperor Ling of Han
Emperor Ling of Han was a late Eastern Han dynasty ruler whose ineffective governance and court corruption significantly contributed to the empire’s decline and the turmoil preceding the Three Kingdoms period.
- 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: Liu Shan Description of subject: Liu Shan was the second and last emperor of the Shu Han state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, remembered for his weak rule and the eventual fall of his kingdom to Wei.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.