Zhang Xiyuan
E203494
Zhang Xiyuan was the first wife of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, with whom he was briefly married in the early 1920s before her early death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Zhang Xiyuan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1830775 — 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: Zhang Xiyuan Context triple: [Deng Xiaoping, spouse, Zhang Xiyuan]
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A.
Ma Long
Ma Long is a Chinese table tennis player widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport’s history, with multiple Olympic and World Championship titles.
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B.
Yao Yecheng
Yao Yecheng was the adoptive mother of Chiang Wei-kuo, the son of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek.
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C.
Fu Bingchang
Fu Bingchang was a Chinese diplomat and politician who represented the Republic of China in key World War II–era negotiations and later served as an ambassador and senior government official.
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D.
Xiong Yi
Xiong Yi was the legendary early ruler credited with establishing the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the Zhou dynasty.
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E.
Lei Yixin
Lei Yixin is a Chinese sculptor internationally known for creating the monumental statue of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Washington, D.C. memorial.
- 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: Zhang Xiyuan Target entity description: Zhang Xiyuan was the first wife of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, with whom he was briefly married in the early 1920s before her early death.
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A.
Ma Long
Ma Long is a Chinese table tennis player widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport’s history, with multiple Olympic and World Championship titles.
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B.
Yao Yecheng
Yao Yecheng was the adoptive mother of Chiang Wei-kuo, the son of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek.
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C.
Fu Bingchang
Fu Bingchang was a Chinese diplomat and politician who represented the Republic of China in key World War II–era negotiations and later served as an ambassador and senior government official.
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D.
Xiong Yi
Xiong Yi was the legendary early ruler credited with establishing the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the Zhou dynasty.
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E.
Lei Yixin
Lei Yixin is a Chinese sculptor internationally known for creating the monumental statue of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Washington, D.C. memorial.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese person
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| endCause | early death ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | briefly married to Deng Xiaoping in the early 1920s ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Deng Xiaoping ⓘ |
| positionHeld | wife of Deng Xiaoping ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Deng Xiaoping
ⓘ
Zhang Xiyuan ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfEvent | early 1920s marriage to Deng Xiaoping ⓘ |
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: Zhang Xiyuan Description of subject: Zhang Xiyuan was the first wife of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, with whom he was briefly married in the early 1920s before her early death.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Zhang Xiyuan