Shen Dao
E358501
Shen Dao is the ceremonial spirit road leading to the Ming Tombs near Beijing, lined with stone statues and monuments that honor deceased emperors.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shen Dao canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3453095 — 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: Shen Dao Context triple: [Sacred Way, alsoKnownAs, Shen Dao]
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A.
Cui Hao
Cui Hao was a prominent poet of the Tang dynasty in China, best known for his evocative landscape and frontier poems.
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B.
Shen Yiqin
Shen Yiqin is a Chinese politician who serves as a senior national leader and prominent advocate for women's affairs in China.
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C.
Shan Zuchang
Shan Zuchang is a Chinese businessman best known for serving as chairman of English football club West Bromwich Albion.
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D.
San Min Chu-i
San Min Chu-i is the national anthem of the Republic of China, expressing the political philosophy of Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles of the People.
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E.
Shu Chien
Shu Chien is a renowned Chinese-American physiologist and bioengineer recognized for pioneering contributions to cardiovascular biomechanics and microcirculation research.
- 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: Shen Dao Target entity description: Shen Dao is the ceremonial spirit road leading to the Ming Tombs near Beijing, lined with stone statues and monuments that honor deceased emperors.
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A.
Cui Hao
Cui Hao was a prominent poet of the Tang dynasty in China, best known for his evocative landscape and frontier poems.
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B.
Shen Yiqin
Shen Yiqin is a Chinese politician who serves as a senior national leader and prominent advocate for women's affairs in China.
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C.
Shan Zuchang
Shan Zuchang is a Chinese businessman best known for serving as chairman of English football club West Bromwich Albion.
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D.
San Min Chu-i
San Min Chu-i is the national anthem of the Republic of China, expressing the political philosophy of Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles of the People.
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E.
Shu Chien
Shu Chien is a renowned Chinese-American physiologist and bioengineer recognized for pioneering contributions to cardiovascular biomechanics and microcirculation research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ceremonial road
ⓘ
spirit way ⓘ |
| access | approach route to the Ming Tombs ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Changling (Ming Tomb)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ming Tombs
other Ming imperial tombs ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Chinese imperial funerary tradition ⓘ |
| era |
Ming dynasty period
ⓘ
linked to:
Ming dynasty
|
| hasFeature |
ceremonial archways
ⓘ
stone animals ⓘ stone human figures ⓘ stone monuments ⓘ stone statues ⓘ |
| heritageSiteName | Ming and Qing Dynastic Tombs ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Chinese ⓘ |
| literalMeaning | spirit way ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Ming Tombs ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Beijing ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ming Tombs complex
ⓘ
linked to:
Ming Tombs
|
| purpose | honor deceased emperors ⓘ |
| religiousAssociation |
Chinese ancestor worship
ⓘ
state ritual of the Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
imperial authority
ⓘ
respect for the dead ⓘ |
| tourism | popular tourist attraction near Beijing ⓘ |
| transliteration |
Shéndào
ⓘ
linked to:
Tao
|
| usedFor | ritual processions ⓘ |
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: Shen Dao Description of subject: Shen Dao is the ceremonial spirit road leading to the Ming Tombs near Beijing, lined with stone statues and monuments that honor deceased emperors.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.