Hongzhi Zhengjue
E277428
Hongzhi Zhengjue was a prominent 12th-century Chinese Chan master of the Caodong school, best known for developing and teaching the practice of silent illumination meditation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hongzhi Zhengjue canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2563040 — 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: Hongzhi Zhengjue Context triple: [Chan Buddhism, associatedMonk, Hongzhi Zhengjue]
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A.
Jia Huan Cheng
Jia Huan Cheng is a Chinese architect best known for designing Shanghai’s iconic Oriental Pearl Tower.
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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.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a late 19th-century Chinese ironclad battleship of the Beiyang Fleet that played a prominent role in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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D.
Zhenwu
Zhenwu is a powerful Taoist deity associated with the north, martial protection, and spiritual cultivation, especially revered in Chinese religious and martial traditions.
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E.
Xiao Zisheng
Xiao Zisheng was a Chinese educator, writer, and early associate of Mao Zedong who played a significant role in introducing Western ideas and promoting modern education in early 20th-century 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: Hongzhi Zhengjue Target entity description: Hongzhi Zhengjue was a prominent 12th-century Chinese Chan master of the Caodong school, best known for developing and teaching the practice of silent illumination meditation.
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A.
Jia Huan Cheng
Jia Huan Cheng is a Chinese architect best known for designing Shanghai’s iconic Oriental Pearl Tower.
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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.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a late 19th-century Chinese ironclad battleship of the Beiyang Fleet that played a prominent role in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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D.
Zhenwu
Zhenwu is a powerful Taoist deity associated with the north, martial protection, and spiritual cultivation, especially revered in Chinese religious and martial traditions.
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E.
Xiao Zisheng
Xiao Zisheng was a Chinese educator, writer, and early associate of Mao Zedong who played a significant role in introducing Western ideas and promoting modern education in early 20th-century China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist monk
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Caodong school master ⓘ Chan master ⓘ Song dynasty person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Caodong lineage
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linked to:
Caodong school
silent illumination tradition ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| doctrine |
non-dual awareness
ⓘ
original enlightenment ⓘ |
| era | Song dynasty ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Buddhist meditation
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Buddhist philosophy ⓘ |
| floruit | 12th century ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| influenced |
Dōgen
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Sōtō Zen ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing the practice of silent illumination
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poetic meditation instructions ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Chinese ⓘ |
| memberOf | Caodong school ⓘ |
| movement | Chan Buddhism ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on Japanese Sōtō Zen
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silent illumination meditation ⓘ teachings on just sitting ⓘ |
| occupation |
Buddhist monk
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religious teacher ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
Caodong school
ⓘ
Chan Buddhism ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousOrder | Chan monastic community ⓘ |
| role |
lineage holder
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meditation teacher ⓘ |
| school |
Caodong
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linked to:
Caodong school
|
| teachingFocus |
just sitting practice
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non-conceptual awareness ⓘ silent illumination meditation ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 12th century ⓘ |
| tradition | Chan ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Chan Buddhism
ⓘ
Sōtō Zen ⓘ |
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: Hongzhi Zhengjue Description of subject: Hongzhi Zhengjue was a prominent 12th-century Chinese Chan master of the Caodong school, best known for developing and teaching the practice of silent illumination meditation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.