Tudigong
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Tudigong is a widely venerated Chinese earth god and local tutelary deity associated with protecting land, villages, and community welfare.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tudigong canonical | 5 |
| Emperor of Mount Tai | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1877930 — 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: Tudigong Context triple: [Chinese folk religion, hasDeity, Tudigong]
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A.
Enlai
Enlai is the given name of Zhou Enlai, the prominent first Premier of the People's Republic of China and a key figure in Chinese Communist history.
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B.
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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C.
Zhu
Zhu is a common Chinese surname borne by many notable historical and contemporary figures in China.
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D.
Meng Tian
Meng Tian was a prominent Qin dynasty general and engineer best known for leading northern campaigns against the Xiongnu and contributing to early construction of the Great Wall.
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E.
Guguan
Guguan is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Northern Mariana Islands chain in the western Pacific Ocean.
- 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: Tudigong Target entity description: Tudigong is a widely venerated Chinese earth god and local tutelary deity associated with protecting land, villages, and community welfare.
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A.
Enlai
Enlai is the given name of Zhou Enlai, the prominent first Premier of the People's Republic of China and a key figure in Chinese Communist history.
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B.
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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C.
Zhu
Zhu is a common Chinese surname borne by many notable historical and contemporary figures in China.
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D.
Meng Tian
Meng Tian was a prominent Qin dynasty general and engineer best known for leading northern campaigns against the Xiongnu and contributing to early construction of the Great Wall.
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E.
Guguan
Guguan is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Northern Mariana Islands chain in the western Pacific Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese deity
ⓘ
earth god ⓘ tutelary deity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
agricultural prosperity
ⓘ
community welfare ⓘ fertility of the land ⓘ good fortune ⓘ longevity ⓘ wealth ⓘ |
| ChineseName |
土地公
ⓘ
福德正神 ⓘ |
| cultType |
local cult
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village deity cult ⓘ |
| domain |
earth
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local land ⓘ village territory ⓘ |
| function |
guards graves and burial grounds
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protects boundary markers ⓘ protects construction sites ⓘ records merits and demerits of local people ⓘ reports local affairs to higher gods ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFestival |
birthday celebrations in various local calendars
ⓘ
second day of the second lunar month ⓘ |
| hasShrineType |
household altar
ⓘ
village temple ⓘ wayside shrine ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
Fude Zhengshen
ⓘ
Lord of the Soil and Ground ⓘ |
| relatedDeity |
Caishen
ⓘ
Houtu ⓘ Tianhou ⓘ |
| religion |
Chinese folk religion
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Taoism ⓘ |
| role |
local guardian deity
ⓘ
overseer of local spirits ⓘ protector of communities ⓘ protector of households ⓘ protector of land ⓘ protector of travelers ⓘ protector of villages ⓘ provider of blessings ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Chenghuangshen
ⓘ
City God ⓘ
linked to:
City God of Shanghai
|
| typicalDepiction |
elderly man with white beard
ⓘ
holding a gold ingot ⓘ holding a staff ⓘ wearing traditional official robes ⓘ |
| veneration | one of the most widely worshiped deities in Chinese folk religion ⓘ |
| worshipedIn |
China
ⓘ
Hong Kong ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
Macau ⓘ Taiwan ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
overseas Chinese communities ⓘ |
| worshipPractice |
burning joss paper
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offerings of fruit ⓘ offerings of incense ⓘ prayers for prosperity ⓘ prayers for protection ⓘ |
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: Tudigong Description of subject: Tudigong is a widely venerated Chinese earth god and local tutelary deity associated with protecting land, villages, and community welfare.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tudigong