Kong He
E256604
Kong He was the father of the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius and a minor aristocratic military officer in the state of Lu.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2312195 — 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: Kong He Context triple: [Confucius, father, Kong He]
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Pak Suet-sin
Pak Suet-sin is a renowned Cantonese opera actress celebrated for her refined singing, acting, and influential contributions to the art form in Hong Kong.
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King Kaolie of Chu
King Kaolie of Chu was a monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the late Warring States period, known for ruling in a time of intense interstate conflict before the Qin unification.
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C.
Ba Lu Jun
Ba Lu Jun is the Chinese name for the Eighth Route Army, a major Communist-led force that fought against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Ma Si-tsang
Ma Si-tsang was a prominent Cantonese opera performer renowned for his influential roles and contributions to the development of the art form in the early 20th century.
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Zhu
Zhu is a common Chinese surname borne by many notable historical and contemporary figures in China.
- 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: Kong He Target entity description: Kong He was the father of the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius and a minor aristocratic military officer in the state of Lu.
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A.
Pak Suet-sin
Pak Suet-sin is a renowned Cantonese opera actress celebrated for her refined singing, acting, and influential contributions to the art form in Hong Kong.
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B.
King Kaolie of Chu
King Kaolie of Chu was a monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the late Warring States period, known for ruling in a time of intense interstate conflict before the Qin unification.
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C.
Ba Lu Jun
Ba Lu Jun is the Chinese name for the Eighth Route Army, a major Communist-led force that fought against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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D.
Ma Si-tsang
Ma Si-tsang was a prominent Cantonese opera performer renowned for his influential roles and contributions to the development of the art form in the early 20th century.
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E.
Zhu
Zhu is a common Chinese surname borne by many notable historical and contemporary figures in China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Chinese person
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| child | Confucius ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | State of Lu ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| father | Kong He ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| name | Kong He ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Confucius ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Confucius ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | military officer in the state of Lu ⓘ |
| socialStatus | minor aristocrat ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Spring and Autumn period ⓘ |
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: Kong He Description of subject: Kong He was the father of the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius and a minor aristocratic military officer in the state of Lu.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.