Daoxin
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Daoxin was an influential early Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist master traditionally regarded as the Fourth Patriarch, known for helping shape the school’s meditative and doctrinal foundations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Daoxin canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2563028 — 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: Daoxin Context triple: [Chan Buddhism, associatedMonk, Daoxin]
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A.
Lingang
Lingang is a rapidly developing industrial and high-tech district in Shanghai, China, known for hosting major manufacturing facilities such as Tesla’s Gigafactory Shanghai.
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B.
Xiantao
Xiantao is a county-level city in central China’s Hubei province, known for its location on the Jianghan Plain and its role as a regional agricultural and industrial center.
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C.
Jinqiao
Jinqiao is a subdistrict in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area known for its residential communities and growing commercial and industrial zones.
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D.
Xinzhuang
Xinzhuang is a major suburban town and transportation hub in Shanghai, China, known for its busy commercial areas and key metro and rail connections.
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E.
Kangqiao
Kangqiao is a subdistrict in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area known for its residential communities, international schools, and growing commercial development.
- 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: Daoxin Target entity description: Daoxin was an influential early Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist master traditionally regarded as the Fourth Patriarch, known for helping shape the school’s meditative and doctrinal foundations.
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A.
Lingang
Lingang is a rapidly developing industrial and high-tech district in Shanghai, China, known for hosting major manufacturing facilities such as Tesla’s Gigafactory Shanghai.
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B.
Xiantao
Xiantao is a county-level city in central China’s Hubei province, known for its location on the Jianghan Plain and its role as a regional agricultural and industrial center.
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C.
Jinqiao
Jinqiao is a subdistrict in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area known for its residential communities and growing commercial and industrial zones.
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D.
Xinzhuang
Xinzhuang is a major suburban town and transportation hub in Shanghai, China, known for its busy commercial areas and key metro and rail connections.
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E.
Kangqiao
Kangqiao is a subdistrict in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area known for its residential communities, international schools, and growing commercial development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chan Buddhist master
ⓘ
Chinese Buddhist monk ⓘ Zen patriarch ⓘ historical person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
development of Chinese Zen
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early Chan patriarchal lineage ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 7th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| doctrineEmphasized |
Buddha-nature
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direct realization of mind ⓘ non-duality of meditation and wisdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Buddhist doctrine
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meditation ⓘ monastic training ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Fourth Patriarch ⓘ |
| influenced |
Chinese Chan Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Chan Buddhism
East Mountain school of Chan ⓘ
linked to:
Caodong school
Hongren ⓘ Zen Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Zen
|
| knownFor |
emphasis on continuous meditation in daily life
ⓘ
helping shape early Chan doctrinal foundations ⓘ helping shape early Chan meditative practice ⓘ teaching integration of meditation and everyday activities ⓘ |
| languageOfExpression | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| legacy |
foundation for later Chan schools
ⓘ
influence on later Zen practice and teaching ⓘ |
| movement | East Mountain Teaching ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | Chan ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | China ⓘ |
| position |
Fourth Patriarch of Chan
ⓘ
linked to:
Fourth Patriarch
|
| region |
Tang China
ⓘ
linked to:
Tang dynasty
|
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousSchool |
Chan Buddhism
ⓘ
Zen ⓘ |
| roleInReligion |
meditation teacher
ⓘ
patriarch ⓘ |
| spiritualDiscipline | dhyāna (meditation) ⓘ |
| student | Hongren ⓘ |
| teacher | Sengcan ⓘ |
| tradition |
Mahāyāna Buddhism
ⓘ
linked to:
Mahayana
|
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: Daoxin Description of subject: Daoxin was an influential early Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist master traditionally regarded as the Fourth Patriarch, known for helping shape the school’s meditative and doctrinal foundations.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.