Ye Wenjie
E375638
Ye Wenjie is a pivotal astrophysicist in Liu Cixin’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy whose traumatic experiences and radical decisions trigger humanity’s first contact with an alien civilization.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ye Wenjie canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3633511 — 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: Ye Wenjie Context triple: [The Three-Body Problem (TV adaptation), featuresCharacter, Ye Wenjie]
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A.
Liwen Shao
Liwen Shao is a brilliant and ambitious Chinese businesswoman and technologist in the Pacific Rim universe, known for her pivotal role in developing advanced Jaeger drone technology.
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B.
Jing Tian
Jing Tian is a Chinese actress known for her roles in both Chinese cinema and Hollywood blockbusters such as "Pacific Rim: Uprising" and "The Great Wall."
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C.
Yu Xuezhong
Yu Xuezhong was a prominent Chinese military leader associated with the Northeastern Army during the Republican era.
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D.
Yu Qingfang
Yu Qingfang was a key revolutionary leader associated with the Tapani Incident, an anti-Japanese uprising in early 20th-century Taiwan.
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E.
Yuhuai Wu
Yuhuai Wu is an AI researcher and entrepreneur known for his work on large language models and as a member of Elon Musk’s xAI team.
- 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: Ye Wenjie Target entity description: Ye Wenjie is a pivotal astrophysicist in Liu Cixin’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy whose traumatic experiences and radical decisions trigger humanity’s first contact with an alien civilization.
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A.
Liwen Shao
Liwen Shao is a brilliant and ambitious Chinese businesswoman and technologist in the Pacific Rim universe, known for her pivotal role in developing advanced Jaeger drone technology.
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B.
Jing Tian
Jing Tian is a Chinese actress known for her roles in both Chinese cinema and Hollywood blockbusters such as "Pacific Rim: Uprising" and "The Great Wall."
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C.
Yu Xuezhong
Yu Xuezhong was a prominent Chinese military leader associated with the Northeastern Army during the Republican era.
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D.
Yu Qingfang
Yu Qingfang was a key revolutionary leader associated with the Tapani Incident, an anti-Japanese uprising in early 20th-century Taiwan.
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E.
Yuhuai Wu
Yuhuai Wu is an AI researcher and entrepreneur known for his work on large language models and as a member of Elon Musk’s xAI team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astrophysicist
ⓘ
character in literature ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| alignment | antagonistic to human civilization ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Death’s End
ⓘ
linked to:
Death’s End (novel)
Remembrance of Earth’s Past ⓘ
linked to:
Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy
The Dark Forest ⓘ The Three-Body Problem ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Red Coast Base ⓘ |
| creator | Liu Cixin ⓘ |
| education |
Tsinghua University (in fiction)
ⓘ
linked to:
Tsinghua University
|
| employerInFiction | Red Coast Base ⓘ |
| familyName | Ye ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Remembrance of Earth’s Past universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy
|
| fieldOfWork |
astrophysics
ⓘ
radio astronomy ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction character ⓘ |
| givenName | Wenjie ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Yang Dong
ⓘ
Yang Weining ⓘ Ye Zhetai ⓘ |
| ideologyInFiction | pessimism about human nature ⓘ |
| influences | development of Trisolaran invasion plan ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | Chinese ⓘ |
| literaryRole | catalyst of main conflict ⓘ |
| memberOf | Earth-Trisolaris Organization (ETO) ⓘ |
| motivatedBy | trauma from the Cultural Revolution ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | bridge between human history and cosmic-scale events ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableAction |
betrays coordinates of the Solar System to Trisolarans
ⓘ
sends message to Trisolaran civilization ⓘ |
| occupation | astrophysicist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Chen Jin
ⓘ
Rosalind Chao ⓘ Wang Ziwen ⓘ Zine Tseng ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
3 Body Problem (Netflix series)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Three-Body Problem (TV adaptation)
The Three-Body Problem (Chinese TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
The Three-Body Problem (TV adaptation)
|
| positionHeld | leader of early Earth-Trisolaris Organization ⓘ |
| roleInWork | pivotal character in first contact with Trisolarans ⓘ |
| settingOfKeyEvents | Red Coast Base in Inner Mongolia ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalLife |
Cultural Revolution era
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early 21st century ⓘ late 20th century ⓘ |
| traumaticEvent | public struggle session and death of her father ⓘ |
| triggers | humanity’s first contact with Trisolaris ⓘ |
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: Ye Wenjie Description of subject: Ye Wenjie is a pivotal astrophysicist in Liu Cixin’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy whose traumatic experiences and radical decisions trigger humanity’s first contact with an alien civilization.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.