King Ping of Zhou
E250478
King Ping of Zhou was an early Eastern Zhou monarch who moved the capital east to Luoyang, marking the decline of royal power and the start of the Eastern Zhou period in ancient China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| King Ping of Zhou canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2105366 — 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: King Ping of Zhou Context triple: [Zhou dynasty, notableFigure, King Ping of Zhou]
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A.
King You of Zhou
King You of Zhou was the last king of the Western Zhou dynasty, infamous for his misrule and the events that led to the dynasty’s collapse.
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B.
King Wen of Zhou
King Wen of Zhou was an early Zhou ruler revered as a sage-king whose leadership and reforms laid the groundwork for the Zhou dynasty’s overthrow of the Shang and the establishment of a new political order in ancient China.
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C.
King Wu of Zhou
King Wu of Zhou was the founding king of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China, renowned for leading the conquest that ended the Shang dynasty and established a new royal order.
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D.
King Zhuang of Chu
King Zhuang of Chu was a prominent Spring and Autumn period monarch renowned for transforming Chu into one of the most powerful states in ancient China.
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E.
Duke of Zhou
The Duke of Zhou was an influential early Zhou dynasty statesman and regent renowned for consolidating royal power, codifying rituals, and shaping the foundations of Chinese political philosophy.
- 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: King Ping of Zhou Target entity description: King Ping of Zhou was an early Eastern Zhou monarch who moved the capital east to Luoyang, marking the decline of royal power and the start of the Eastern Zhou period in ancient China.
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A.
King You of Zhou
King You of Zhou was the last king of the Western Zhou dynasty, infamous for his misrule and the events that led to the dynasty’s collapse.
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B.
King Wen of Zhou
King Wen of Zhou was an early Zhou ruler revered as a sage-king whose leadership and reforms laid the groundwork for the Zhou dynasty’s overthrow of the Shang and the establishment of a new political order in ancient China.
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C.
King Wu of Zhou
King Wu of Zhou was the founding king of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China, renowned for leading the conquest that ended the Shang dynasty and established a new royal order.
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D.
King Zhuang of Chu
King Zhuang of Chu was a prominent Spring and Autumn period monarch renowned for transforming Chu into one of the most powerful states in ancient China.
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E.
Duke of Zhou
The Duke of Zhou was an influential early Zhou dynasty statesman and regent renowned for consolidating royal power, codifying rituals, and shaping the foundations of Chinese political philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Zhou
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ancient Chinese monarch ⓘ |
| ascendedToThrone | after the death of King You of Zhou ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
fall of the Western Zhou capital Haojing
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formal beginning of the Eastern Zhou period ⓘ |
| birthDate | 8th century BC ⓘ |
| capital | Luoyang ⓘ |
| capitalMovedTo | Luoyang ⓘ |
| capitalRegion | Luoyang Basin ⓘ |
| conflictContext | Quanrong invasion of the Western Zhou capital ⓘ |
| country | Zhou dynasty ⓘ |
| deathDate | 720 BC ⓘ |
| dynasty | Zhou dynasty ⓘ |
| endTime | 720 BC ⓘ |
| era |
Eastern Zhou period
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Zhou
Spring and Autumn period ⓘ |
| familyName | Ji ⓘ |
| father | King You of Zhou ⓘ |
| givenName | Yijiu ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | transition from Western Zhou to Eastern Zhou ⓘ |
| house | House of Ji ⓘ |
| monarchOf |
China
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Zhou dynasty ⓘ |
| mother | Queen Shen ⓘ |
| movedCapitalFrom | Haojing ⓘ |
| movedCapitalTo | Luoyang ⓘ |
| personalName | Ji Yijiu ⓘ |
| politicalPower | largely dependent on regional feudal lords ⓘ |
| position | Son of Heaven ⓘ |
| posthumousName | Ping ⓘ |
| powerStatus | nominal overlord of the Zhou feudal states ⓘ |
| predecessor | King You of Zhou ⓘ |
| previousCapital | Haojing ⓘ |
| realmType | feudal monarchy ⓘ |
| reasonForCapitalMove | threat from Quanrong tribes and instability in the west ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 720 BC ⓘ |
| reignStart | 770 BC ⓘ |
| reignTitle | King of Zhou ⓘ |
| significance |
initiated the Eastern Zhou period
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marked the decline of royal power of the Zhou kings ⓘ |
| startTime | 770 BC ⓘ |
| successor |
King Huan of Zhou
ⓘ
linked to:
King Xian of Zhou
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| supportedBy |
Marquess of Shen
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linked to:
Marquess of Shen (initially)
various regional lords ⓘ |
| templeName | Ping Wang ⓘ |
| titleInChinese | 周平王 ⓘ |
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: King Ping of Zhou Description of subject: King Ping of Zhou was an early Eastern Zhou monarch who moved the capital east to Luoyang, marking the decline of royal power and the start of the Eastern Zhou period in ancient China.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.