Kingdom of Tungning
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The Kingdom of Tungning was a 17th-century Chinese exile regime established by Koxinga on Taiwan, serving as a Ming loyalist stronghold against the Qing dynasty.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kingdom of Tungning canonical | 2 |
| Kingdom of Formosa | 1 |
| Zheng regime in Taiwan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2607695 — 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: Kingdom of Tungning Context triple: [Tainan, formerCapitalOf, Kingdom of Tungning]
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A.
Ryukyu Kingdom
The Ryukyu Kingdom was an independent island monarchy centered on Okinawa that thrived as a maritime trading hub between Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia before its annexation by Japan in the 19th century.
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B.
Kingdom of Wajo
The Kingdom of Wajo was a prominent Bugis maritime and trading state in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its influential role in regional commerce and distinctive political traditions.
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C.
Manchukuo
Manchukuo was a Japanese puppet state established in northeastern China (Manchuria) from 1932 to 1945, used as a base for imperial expansion in East Asia during World War II.
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D.
Protectorate of Annam
The Protectorate of Annam was a central Vietnamese monarchy under French colonial rule, forming one of the key constituent regions of French Indochina.
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E.
Kingdom of Khotan
The Kingdom of Khotan was an influential ancient Buddhist oasis state on the southern Silk Road, renowned as a center of trade, culture, and early silk production in what is now western 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: Kingdom of Tungning Target entity description: The Kingdom of Tungning was a 17th-century Chinese exile regime established by Koxinga on Taiwan, serving as a Ming loyalist stronghold against the Qing dynasty.
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A.
Ryukyu Kingdom
The Ryukyu Kingdom was an independent island monarchy centered on Okinawa that thrived as a maritime trading hub between Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia before its annexation by Japan in the 19th century.
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B.
Kingdom of Wajo
The Kingdom of Wajo was a prominent Bugis maritime and trading state in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for its influential role in regional commerce and distinctive political traditions.
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C.
Manchukuo
Manchukuo was a Japanese puppet state established in northeastern China (Manchuria) from 1932 to 1945, used as a base for imperial expansion in East Asia during World War II.
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D.
Protectorate of Annam
The Protectorate of Annam was a central Vietnamese monarchy under French colonial rule, forming one of the key constituent regions of French Indochina.
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E.
Kingdom of Khotan
The Kingdom of Khotan was an influential ancient Buddhist oasis state on the southern Silk Road, renowned as a center of trade, culture, and early silk production in what is now western China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Kingdom of Tungning Description of subject: The Kingdom of Tungning was a 17th-century Chinese exile regime established by Koxinga on Taiwan, serving as a Ming loyalist stronghold against the Qing dynasty.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.