Peking University Library
E243867
Peking University Library is one of China’s largest and most prestigious academic libraries, renowned for its extensive collections in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peking University library | 2 |
| Imperial University of Peking Library | 1 |
| Peking University Library canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2213227 — 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: Peking University Library Context triple: [Peking University, hasLibrary, Peking University Library]
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A.
Fudan University Library
Fudan University Library is the main academic library system of Fudan University in Shanghai, China, providing extensive scholarly resources and research support to students and faculty.
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B.
Peking University
Peking University is a leading Chinese research university in Beijing, renowned for its academic excellence, historical significance, and global influence.
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C.
East China Normal University
East China Normal University is a leading comprehensive research university in Shanghai, China, renowned for its strengths in teacher education, the humanities, and the social sciences.
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D.
Harvard-Yenching Library
The Harvard-Yenching Library is Harvard University's primary research library for East Asian studies, renowned for its extensive collections of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other East Asian materials.
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E.
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University is a leading research-intensive university in Beijing, China, renowned for its strong engineering, science, and technology programs and its significant influence in Chinese higher education and innovation.
- 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: Peking University Library Target entity description: Peking University Library is one of China’s largest and most prestigious academic libraries, renowned for its extensive collections in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
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A.
Fudan University Library
Fudan University Library is the main academic library system of Fudan University in Shanghai, China, providing extensive scholarly resources and research support to students and faculty.
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B.
Peking University
Peking University is a leading Chinese research university in Beijing, renowned for its academic excellence, historical significance, and global influence.
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C.
East China Normal University
East China Normal University is a leading comprehensive research university in Shanghai, China, renowned for its strengths in teacher education, the humanities, and the social sciences.
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D.
Harvard-Yenching Library
The Harvard-Yenching Library is Harvard University's primary research library for East Asian studies, renowned for its extensive collections of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other East Asian materials.
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E.
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University is a leading research-intensive university in Beijing, China, renowned for its strong engineering, science, and technology programs and its significant influence in Chinese higher education and innovation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic library
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research library ⓘ university library ⓘ |
| affiliation | Peking University ⓘ |
| buildingType | library building ⓘ |
| collectionSize | over 10 million volumes ⓘ |
| collectionType |
ancient Chinese books
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databases ⓘ dissertations and theses ⓘ electronic resources ⓘ humanities ⓘ natural sciences ⓘ periodicals ⓘ rare books ⓘ social sciences ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| established | 1902 ⓘ |
| hasDepartment |
circulation department
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digital resources department ⓘ reference department ⓘ special collections department ⓘ |
| hasOnlineCatalog | yes ⓘ |
| hasReadingRooms | yes ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Chinese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Peking University ⓘ |
| locatedInCampus | Peking University main campus ⓘ |
| locatedInCity | Beijing ⓘ |
| locatedInDistrict | Haidian District ⓘ |
| nativeName | 北京大学图书馆 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Chinese rare book collections
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comprehensive academic resources ⓘ large humanities collections ⓘ prestige among Chinese academic libraries ⓘ |
| offersService |
circulation services
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digital library services ⓘ information literacy instruction ⓘ interlibrary loan ⓘ reference services ⓘ |
| partOf | Peking University ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Imperial University of Peking Library
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linked to:
Peking University Library
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| rankedAmong |
largest academic libraries in China
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most prestigious academic libraries in China ⓘ |
| regionServed | Peking University community ⓘ |
| serves |
Peking University faculty
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Peking University researchers ⓘ Peking University students ⓘ |
| shortName | PKU Library ⓘ |
| website | https://www.lib.pku.edu.cn ⓘ |
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: Peking University Library Description of subject: Peking University Library is one of China’s largest and most prestigious academic libraries, renowned for its extensive collections in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Peking University Library
subject linked to:
Boyata (Boya Pagoda)
linked to: Peking University Library
linked to: Peking University Library