Sun Yat-sen
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Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese revolutionary leader and political thinker widely regarded as the founding father of modern China and a key figure in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sun Yat-sen canonical | 137 |
| Sun Zhongshan | 7 |
| 孙中山 | 3 |
| 孫中山 | 3 |
| 孫逸仙 | 2 |
| Sun Yat-sen (Sun Zhongshan) | 1 |
| Sun Yat‑sen | 1 |
| Three Principles of the People | 1 |
| Zhongshan (Chinese name of Sun Yat-sen) | 1 |
| 孙逸仙 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T233706 — 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: Sun Yat-sen Context triple: [Chiang Kai-shek, predecessor, Sun Yat-sen]
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A.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was the founding father of the People's Republic of China and the leader of the Chinese Communist Party whose political, military, and ideological leadership reshaped 20th-century China.
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B.
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek was the Nationalist Chinese political and military leader who headed the Republic of China for decades and led its forces against both Japanese invasion and Chinese Communist revolutionaries.
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C.
Chiang Wei-kuo
Chiang Wei-kuo was a Chinese military officer and the adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek, noted for his service in both the German Wehrmacht during World War II and later in Taiwan’s armed forces.
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D.
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh was the revolutionary leader and president of North Vietnam who led the communist struggle for Vietnamese independence and unification during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Chiang Chieh-shih
Chiang Chieh-shih is the birth name of Chiang Kai-shek, the influential 20th-century Chinese political and military leader who headed the Republic of 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: Sun Yat-sen Target entity description: Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese revolutionary leader and political thinker widely regarded as the founding father of modern China and a key figure in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty.
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A.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was the founding father of the People's Republic of China and the leader of the Chinese Communist Party whose political, military, and ideological leadership reshaped 20th-century China.
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B.
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek was the Nationalist Chinese political and military leader who headed the Republic of China for decades and led its forces against both Japanese invasion and Chinese Communist revolutionaries.
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C.
Chiang Wei-kuo
Chiang Wei-kuo was a Chinese military officer and the adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek, noted for his service in both the German Wehrmacht during World War II and later in Taiwan’s armed forces.
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D.
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh was the revolutionary leader and president of North Vietnam who led the communist struggle for Vietnamese independence and unification during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Chiang Chieh-shih
Chiang Chieh-shih is the birth name of Chiang Kai-shek, the influential 20th-century Chinese political and military leader who headed the Republic of China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (76)
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: Sun Yat-sen Description of subject: Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese revolutionary leader and political thinker widely regarded as the founding father of modern China and a key figure in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty.
Referenced by (157)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
National Revolutionary Army (nominally, during United Front)
linked to: Sun Yat-sen
linked to: Sun Yat-sen
linked to: Sun Yat-sen
linked to: Sun Yat-sen
linked to: Sun Yat-sen
linked to: Sun Yat-sen
subject linked to:
Soong family
linked to: Sun Yat-sen