Du Fu
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Du Fu was a preeminent Tang dynasty poet renowned for his profound social conscience, historical insight, and technical mastery, often hailed as one of China's greatest poets.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Du Fu canonical | 33 |
| 杜甫 | 2 |
| Du Fu (as lyrical speaker) | 1 |
| Du Fu's war-time poems | 1 |
| poet Du Fu | 1 |
| 子美 | 1 |
| 杜工部 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1860748 — 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: Du Fu Context triple: [Tang dynasty, notablePerson, Du Fu]
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A.
Li Bai
Li Bai was a renowned Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty, celebrated for his romantic, imaginative verse and mastery of classical Chinese poetry.
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B.
Qu Yuan
Qu Yuan was an ancient Chinese poet and statesman of the Warring States period, renowned for his patriotic verse and associated with the origins of the Dragon Boat Festival.
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C.
poet Cui Hao
Cui Hao was a prominent Tang dynasty poet best known for his celebrated poem about Yellow Crane Tower, which has secured his lasting place in Chinese literary history.
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D.
Qi Xin
Qi Xin is a Chinese revolutionary and former Party official best known as the mother of China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping.
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E.
Su Shi
Su Shi was a renowned Song dynasty Chinese poet, essayist, calligrapher, and statesman celebrated as one of the greatest literary figures in Chinese history.
- 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: Du Fu Target entity description: Du Fu was a preeminent Tang dynasty poet renowned for his profound social conscience, historical insight, and technical mastery, often hailed as one of China's greatest poets.
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A.
Li Bai
Li Bai was a renowned Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty, celebrated for his romantic, imaginative verse and mastery of classical Chinese poetry.
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B.
Qu Yuan
Qu Yuan was an ancient Chinese poet and statesman of the Warring States period, renowned for his patriotic verse and associated with the origins of the Dragon Boat Festival.
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C.
poet Cui Hao
Cui Hao was a prominent Tang dynasty poet best known for his celebrated poem about Yellow Crane Tower, which has secured his lasting place in Chinese literary history.
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D.
Qi Xin
Qi Xin is a Chinese revolutionary and former Party official best known as the mother of China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping.
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E.
Su Shi
Su Shi was a renowned Song dynasty Chinese poet, essayist, calligrapher, and statesman celebrated as one of the greatest literary figures in Chinese history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese poet
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Tang dynasty person ⓘ historical figure ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Du Gongbu ⓘ |
| birthYear | 712 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| courtesyName | Zimei ⓘ |
| deathYear | 770 ⓘ |
| dynasty | Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| era | High Tang ⓘ |
| familyName | Du ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
gushi
ⓘ
lushi ⓘ regulated verse ⓘ shi poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | Fu ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
historical insight
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profound social conscience ⓘ technical mastery of poetic form ⓘ |
| historicalEventWitnessed | An Lushan Rebellion ⓘ |
| influenced |
Chinese poetry
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East Asian literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Li Bai ⓘ |
| isConsidered | one of China’s greatest poets ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
loyalty to the state
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ordinary people’s hardship ⓘ social injustice ⓘ war and its suffering ⓘ |
| movement | Tang poetry ⓘ |
| name | Du Fu ⓘ |
| nativeAlsoKnownAs |
杜工部
ⓘ
linked to:
Du Fu
|
| nativeCourtesyName |
子美
ⓘ
linked to:
Du Fu
|
| nativeName |
杜甫
ⓘ
linked to:
Du Fu
|
| notableWork |
Song of the War Carts
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Spring View ⓘ The Thatched Hut Wrecked by Autumn Wind ⓘ Three Farewells ⓘ Three Officials ⓘ |
| occupation |
official
ⓘ
poet ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
China
ⓘ
Gongyi ⓘ Henan ⓘ
linked to:
Henan Province
|
| placeOfDeath |
China
ⓘ
Hunan ⓘ
linked to:
Hunan Province
|
| styleCharacteristic |
dense historical allusion
ⓘ
formal perfection in regulated verse ⓘ moral engagement ⓘ |
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: Du Fu Description of subject: Du Fu was a preeminent Tang dynasty poet renowned for his profound social conscience, historical insight, and technical mastery, often hailed as one of China's greatest poets.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Du Fu
linked to: Du Fu
linked to: Du Fu
linked to: Du Fu
subject linked to:
Baidi (present-day Fengjie County, Chongqing, China)
linked to: Du Fu
linked to: Du Fu