Jingyuan
E245745
Jingyuan was a late 19th-century protected cruiser of the Qing Dynasty’s Beiyang Fleet that saw action in the First Sino-Japanese War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jingyuan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2212652 — 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: Jingyuan Context triple: [Beiyang Fleet, vessel, Jingyuan]
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A.
Zhizhong
Zhizhong is a Chinese given name shared by various individuals, including historical and contemporary figures.
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B.
Zongren
Zongren is the given name of Li Zongren, a prominent Chinese military commander and political leader of the early to mid-20th century.
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C.
Xinan Guanhua
Xinan Guanhua is a major regional variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken across much of southwestern China, including provinces such as Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou.
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D.
Tudigong
Tudigong is a widely venerated Chinese earth god and local tutelary deity associated with protecting land, villages, and community welfare.
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E.
Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
- 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: Jingyuan Target entity description: Jingyuan was a late 19th-century protected cruiser of the Qing Dynasty’s Beiyang Fleet that saw action in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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A.
Zhizhong
Zhizhong is a Chinese given name shared by various individuals, including historical and contemporary figures.
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B.
Zongren
Zongren is the given name of Li Zongren, a prominent Chinese military commander and political leader of the early to mid-20th century.
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C.
Xinan Guanhua
Xinan Guanhua is a major regional variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken across much of southwestern China, including provinces such as Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou.
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D.
Tudigong
Tudigong is a widely venerated Chinese earth god and local tutelary deity associated with protecting land, villages, and community welfare.
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E.
Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Beiyang Fleet ship
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protected cruiser ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| armedConflictSide |
Qing China
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linked to:
Qing dynasty
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| armedForceBranch | navy ⓘ |
| conflict | First Sino-Japanese War ⓘ |
| country |
Qing Dynasty
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linked to:
Qing dynasty
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| designClass | protected cruiser class ⓘ |
| era | pre-dreadnought era ⓘ |
| fate | lost in the First Sino-Japanese War ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
late Qing Dynasty
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linked to:
Qing dynasty
|
| historicalSignificance |
participant in early modern East Asian naval warfare
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representative warship of the Beiyang Fleet ⓘ |
| involvedIn | naval battles of the First Sino-Japanese War ⓘ |
| militaryFunction | surface combatant ⓘ |
| navalTheater | Sino-Japanese War naval campaigns ⓘ |
| operator | Beiyang Fleet ⓘ |
| opponent | Imperial Japanese Navy ⓘ |
| partOf | Beiyang Fleet ⓘ |
| regionOfOperation |
East Asia
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Yellow Sea ⓘ coastal waters of China ⓘ |
| role |
fleet escort
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frontline combat ship ⓘ patrol vessel ⓘ |
| serviceEntryEra | late 19th century ⓘ |
| shipType | protected cruiser ⓘ |
| status | war loss ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Imperial Chinese Navy
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linked to:
Beiyang Fleet
|
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: Jingyuan Description of subject: Jingyuan was a late 19th-century protected cruiser of the Qing Dynasty’s Beiyang Fleet that saw action in the First Sino-Japanese War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.