Yongming
E482558
Yongming is the Chinese given name of Eddie Wu, the CEO of Alibaba Group.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yongming canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4954843 — 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: Yongming Context triple: [Eddie Wu, givenName, Yongming]
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A.
Yongming Yanshou
Yongming Yanshou was a 10th-century Chinese Buddhist monk renowned for integrating Chan (Zen) and Pure Land practices, profoundly shaping East Asian Pure Land thought.
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B.
Qi Xin
Qi Xin is a Chinese revolutionary and former Party official best known as the mother of China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping.
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C.
Yunmen Wenyan
Yunmen Wenyan was a renowned 10th-century Chinese Chan master and founder of the Yunmen school, celebrated for his terse, enigmatic teaching style and influential role in Zen koan literature.
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D.
Zongmi
Zongmi was a prominent Tang dynasty Buddhist scholar-monk known for synthesizing Chan (Zen) and Huayan thought into a comprehensive doctrinal system.
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E.
Yan Xiu
Yan Xiu was a prominent early 20th-century Chinese educator and reformer who played a key role in modernizing China's education system.
- 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: Yongming Target entity description: Yongming is the Chinese given name of Eddie Wu, the CEO of Alibaba Group.
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A.
Yongming Yanshou
Yongming Yanshou was a 10th-century Chinese Buddhist monk renowned for integrating Chan (Zen) and Pure Land practices, profoundly shaping East Asian Pure Land thought.
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B.
Qi Xin
Qi Xin is a Chinese revolutionary and former Party official best known as the mother of China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping.
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C.
Yunmen Wenyan
Yunmen Wenyan was a renowned 10th-century Chinese Chan master and founder of the Yunmen school, celebrated for his terse, enigmatic teaching style and influential role in Zen koan literature.
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D.
Zongmi
Zongmi was a prominent Tang dynasty Buddhist scholar-monk known for synthesizing Chan (Zen) and Huayan thought into a comprehensive doctrinal system.
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E.
Yan Xiu
Yan Xiu was a prominent early 20th-century Chinese educator and reformer who played a key role in modernizing China's education system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese given name
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given name ⓘ |
| ChineseGivenName | Yongming ⓘ |
| employer | Alibaba Group ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Chinese ⓘ |
| position | CEO of Alibaba Group ⓘ |
| usedBy | Eddie Wu ⓘ |
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: Yongming Description of subject: Yongming is the Chinese given name of Eddie Wu, the CEO of Alibaba Group.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.