Yanluo Wang
E218806
Yanluo Wang is the Chinese deity who presides over the underworld and judges the souls of the dead.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yanluo Wang canonical | 2 |
| Yan Wang | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1961324 — 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: Yanluo Wang Context triple: [Yama, equivalent, Yanluo Wang]
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A.
Yuhuai Wu
Yuhuai Wu is an AI researcher and entrepreneur known for his work on large language models and as a member of Elon Musk’s xAI team.
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B.
Liwen Shao
Liwen Shao is a brilliant and ambitious Chinese businesswoman and technologist in the Pacific Rim universe, known for her pivotal role in developing advanced Jaeger drone technology.
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C.
Guochuan Lai
Guochuan Lai is a Chinese businessman best known for his ownership of English football club West Bromwich Albion.
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D.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
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E.
Xiaodong Chen
Xiaodong Chen is a prominent materials scientist and nanotechnology researcher who serves as editor-in-chief of the journal ACS Nano.
- 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: Yanluo Wang Target entity description: Yanluo Wang is the Chinese deity who presides over the underworld and judges the souls of the dead.
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A.
Yuhuai Wu
Yuhuai Wu is an AI researcher and entrepreneur known for his work on large language models and as a member of Elon Musk’s xAI team.
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B.
Liwen Shao
Liwen Shao is a brilliant and ambitious Chinese businesswoman and technologist in the Pacific Rim universe, known for her pivotal role in developing advanced Jaeger drone technology.
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C.
Guochuan Lai
Guochuan Lai is a Chinese businessman best known for his ownership of English football club West Bromwich Albion.
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D.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
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E.
Xiaodong Chen
Xiaodong Chen is a prominent materials scientist and nanotechnology researcher who serves as editor-in-chief of the journal ACS Nano.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese deity
ⓘ
death deity ⓘ deity ⓘ underworld deity ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
hell courts
ⓘ
moral judgment after death ⓘ reincarnation ⓘ |
| associatedFestival | Ghost Festival ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
afterlife
ⓘ
hell ⓘ judgment of souls ⓘ karma ⓘ retribution ⓘ |
| basedOn | Yama ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| culture |
Chinese Buddhism
ⓘ
Chinese folk religion ⓘ Taoism ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
seated on a judgment throne
ⓘ
stern male judge ⓘ wearing official robes ⓘ |
| domain | underworld ⓘ |
| etymology | name derives from transliteration of Sanskrit Yama Raja ⓘ |
| function |
assigns punishments to the wicked
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judges the souls of the dead ⓘ oversees the cycle of rebirth ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
court of underworld officials
ⓘ
official cap ⓘ register of the dead ⓘ |
| originatesFrom |
Indian Buddhist deity Yama
ⓘ
linked to:
Yama
|
| partOf |
Chinese underworld pantheon
ⓘ
Ten Kings of Hell ⓘ
linked to:
King of Hell
|
| positionInMythology | one of the Ten Kings of Hell ⓘ |
| religion |
Chinese Buddhism
ⓘ
Chinese folk religion ⓘ Taoism ⓘ |
| role |
judge of the dead
ⓘ
ruler of the underworld ⓘ |
| title |
King Yan
ⓘ
King of Hell ⓘ King of the Underworld ⓘ
linked to:
King of Hell
|
| veneratedAt |
city god temples
ⓘ
folk shrines ⓘ temples of the underworld ⓘ |
| worshipedIn |
China
ⓘ
Hong Kong ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
Taiwan ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
overseas Chinese communities ⓘ |
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: Yanluo Wang Description of subject: Yanluo Wang is the Chinese deity who presides over the underworld and judges the souls of the dead.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yanluo Wang