Taizu
E381072
Taizu is the temple name of the Hongwu Emperor, the founding ruler of China’s Ming dynasty.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Taizu canonical | 4 |
| Zhu Yuanzhang | 2 |
| Tàizǔ | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3700826 — 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: Taizu Context triple: [Hongwu Emperor, templeName, Taizu]
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A.
Li Shang
Li Shang is a disciplined and honorable Chinese army captain who becomes Mulan’s commanding officer and eventual love interest in Disney’s animated film "Mulan."
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B.
Emperor Gaozu of Tang
Emperor Gaozu of Tang was the founder and first emperor of China’s Tang dynasty, who established one of the country’s most prosperous and influential imperial eras in the early 7th century.
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C.
Yuchi
The Yuchi are a Native American people historically from the Southeastern United States, known for their distinct language and cultural traditions separate from neighboring tribes.
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D.
Kong He
Kong He was the father of the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius and a minor aristocratic military officer in the state of Lu.
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E.
Emperor Su
Emperor Su is the posthumous temple name of the Longqing Emperor, a Ming dynasty ruler known for easing some of his predecessor’s harsh policies and briefly revitalizing the Chinese empire in the 16th century.
- 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: Taizu Target entity description: Taizu is the temple name of the Hongwu Emperor, the founding ruler of China’s Ming dynasty.
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A.
Li Shang
Li Shang is a disciplined and honorable Chinese army captain who becomes Mulan’s commanding officer and eventual love interest in Disney’s animated film "Mulan."
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B.
Emperor Gaozu of Tang
Emperor Gaozu of Tang was the founder and first emperor of China’s Tang dynasty, who established one of the country’s most prosperous and influential imperial eras in the early 7th century.
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C.
Yuchi
The Yuchi are a Native American people historically from the Southeastern United States, known for their distinct language and cultural traditions separate from neighboring tribes.
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D.
Kong He
Kong He was the father of the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius and a minor aristocratic military officer in the state of Lu.
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E.
Emperor Su
Emperor Su is the posthumous temple name of the Longqing Emperor, a Ming dynasty ruler known for easing some of his predecessor’s harsh policies and briefly revitalizing the Chinese empire in the 16th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | temple name ⓘ |
| appliedPosthumouslyTo | Hongwu Emperor ⓘ |
| appliesToRole | dynastic founder ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty | Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| category | Chinese temple names ⓘ |
| countryContext | China ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Chinese imperial tradition ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeForm | Tai-tsu ⓘ |
| honorificFor |
first emperor of the Ming dynasty
ⓘ
founder of the Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| honorificRank | highest ancestral temple rank for an emperor ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| linkedConcept |
era name
ⓘ
posthumous name ⓘ temple name (miaohao) ⓘ |
| meaning | Grand Progenitor ⓘ |
| pinyin |
Tàizǔ
ⓘ
linked to:
Taizu
|
| refersTo | Hongwu Emperor ⓘ |
| romanizationSystem |
Hanyu Pinyin
ⓘ
Wade–Giles ⓘ |
| script | Chinese characters ⓘ |
| standardMandarinPronunciation |
Tàizǔ
ⓘ
linked to:
Taizu
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| templeNameOf | Hongwu Emperor ⓘ |
| titleType | posthumous honorific title ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Chinese historians
ⓘ
imperial court ritual specialists ⓘ |
| usedFor | founding emperors of Chinese dynasties ⓘ |
| usedIn | Ming dynasty imperial ancestral temple ⓘ |
| usedInHistoriographyOf | Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| wadeGiles | T’ai-tsu ⓘ |
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: Taizu Description of subject: Taizu is the temple name of the Hongwu Emperor, the founding ruler of China’s Ming dynasty.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Taizu