Jiao (Kaifeng Jewish surname)
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Jiao is one of the traditional Chinese surnames historically associated with the Kaifeng Jewish community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jiao (Kaifeng Jewish surname) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3976824 — 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: Jiao (Kaifeng Jewish surname) Context triple: [Shi (surname associated with Kaifeng Jews), coOccursWithSurnames, Jiao (Kaifeng Jewish surname)]
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A.
Jia
Jia is a young deaf orphan girl who forms an emotional bond with King Kong in the MonsterVerse film "Godzilla vs. Kong."
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B.
Kaifeng
Kaifeng is an ancient city in eastern Henan, China, historically significant as a former capital of several Chinese dynasties and a major cultural and economic center.
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C.
Guangjia
Guangjia was a warship of China’s late 19th-century Beiyang Fleet, one of the Qing dynasty’s principal modern naval forces.
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D.
Zhujiajiao
Zhujiajiao is an ancient water town on the outskirts of Shanghai, famed for its historic canals, stone bridges, and traditional architecture.
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E.
Hakka
Hakka is a Sinitic language spoken primarily by the Hakka people across southern China and various overseas Chinese communities.
- 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: Jiao (Kaifeng Jewish surname) Target entity description: Jiao is one of the traditional Chinese surnames historically associated with the Kaifeng Jewish community.
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A.
Jia
Jia is a young deaf orphan girl who forms an emotional bond with King Kong in the MonsterVerse film "Godzilla vs. Kong."
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B.
Kaifeng
Kaifeng is an ancient city in eastern Henan, China, historically significant as a former capital of several Chinese dynasties and a major cultural and economic center.
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C.
Guangjia
Guangjia was a warship of China’s late 19th-century Beiyang Fleet, one of the Qing dynasty’s principal modern naval forces.
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D.
Zhujiajiao
Zhujiajiao is an ancient water town on the outskirts of Shanghai, famed for its historic canals, stone bridges, and traditional architecture.
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E.
Hakka
Hakka is a Sinitic language spoken primarily by the Hakka people across southern China and various overseas Chinese communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese surname
ⓘ
Kaifeng Jewish surname ⓘ |
| associatedReligionHistorically | Rabbinic Judaism ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Jewish diaspora in China
ⓘ
Kaifeng Synagogue ⓘ
linked to:
Kaifeng synagogue
history of Jews in China ⓘ |
| attestedIn |
Ming dynasty records of Kaifeng Jews
ⓘ
Qing dynasty records of Kaifeng Jews ⓘ |
| category |
Chinese-language surnames
ⓘ
Jewish surnames ⓘ Kaifeng Jews ⓘ
linked to:
Chinese Jews of Kaifeng
|
| country |
China
ⓘ
People's Republic of China ⓘ
linked to:
China
|
| culturalContext |
Chinese Jewish history
ⓘ
Sino-Judaic culture ⓘ
linked to:
Jewish culture
|
| ethnicAssociation |
Chinese Jews
ⓘ
Kaifeng Jews ⓘ
linked to:
Chinese Jews of Kaifeng
|
| ethnoReligiousSignificance | indicator of Jewish lineage in central China ⓘ |
| geographicConcentration |
Henan Province
ⓘ
Kaifeng city ⓘ
linked to:
Kaifeng
|
| historicalCommunity |
Kaifeng Jewish community
ⓘ
linked to:
Chinese Jews of Kaifeng
|
| historicalReligionOfBearers | Judaism ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | one of several surnames of Kaifeng Jews ⓘ |
| integration | reflects assimilation of Jews into Han Chinese society ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| minorityStatus | surname of a small historical community ⓘ |
| modernReligionOfSomeBearers |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Christianity ⓘ Han Chinese folk religion ⓘ secular / non-religious ⓘ |
| nameOrder | surname precedes given name in Chinese usage ⓘ |
| notableFeature | historically marks Jewish ancestry in Kaifeng ⓘ |
| onomaType | family name ⓘ |
| pinyin | Jiāo ⓘ |
| province |
Henan
ⓘ
linked to:
Henan Province
|
| region | Kaifeng ⓘ |
| religiousAssociation | Judaism ⓘ |
| romanizationSystem | Hanyu Pinyin ⓘ |
| romanizedForm |
Jiao
ⓘ
linked to:
Jiāo
|
| scriptType | logographic ⓘ |
| timeDepth | in use for several centuries in Kaifeng ⓘ |
| traditionalScript | 焦 ⓘ |
| transliterationLanguage | English ⓘ |
| usedBy | descendants of Kaifeng Jews ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Chinese characters ⓘ |
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: Jiao (Kaifeng Jewish surname) Description of subject: Jiao is one of the traditional Chinese surnames historically associated with the Kaifeng Jewish community.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Shi