Zilu
E504974
Zilu was one of Confucius’s most prominent disciples, known for his bravery, straightforwardness, and frequent appearance in the Analects as a key interlocutor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zilu canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5232929 — 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: Zilu Context triple: [Analects, hasKeyFigure, Zilu]
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A.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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B.
Bembe
The Bembe are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, known for their rich oral traditions, music, and farming and fishing livelihoods around the Lake Tanganyika and Kivu regions.
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C.
Banzi
Banzi is a town in the Basilicata region of southern Italy, known as the modern site near the ancient Lucanian city of Bantia.
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D.
Anpu
Anpu is the ancient Egyptian name for Anubis, the jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the protection of the dead.
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E.
Ziro
Ziro is a picturesque valley town in northeastern India known for its Apatani tribal culture, rice fields, and the annual Ziro Music Festival.
- 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: Zilu Target entity description: Zilu was one of Confucius’s most prominent disciples, known for his bravery, straightforwardness, and frequent appearance in the Analects as a key interlocutor.
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A.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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B.
Bembe
The Bembe are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, known for their rich oral traditions, music, and farming and fishing livelihoods around the Lake Tanganyika and Kivu regions.
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C.
Banzi
Banzi is a town in the Basilicata region of southern Italy, known as the modern site near the ancient Lucanian city of Bantia.
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D.
Anpu
Anpu is the ancient Egyptian name for Anubis, the jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the protection of the dead.
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E.
Ziro
Ziro is a picturesque valley town in northeastern India known for its Apatani tribal culture, rice fields, and the annual Ziro Music Festival.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese philosopher
ⓘ
Confucian figure ⓘ disciple of Confucius ⓘ historical figure ⓘ person in the Analects ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Book of Rites (ascribed passages)
ⓘ
linked to:
Book of Rites
|
| associatedWith | Confucius ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
state of Lu
ⓘ
linked to:
State of Lu
|
| characterTrait |
brave
ⓘ
impetuous ⓘ loyal ⓘ straightforward ⓘ |
| chineseName |
仲由
ⓘ
linked to:
子路
子路 ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf |
Yan Hui
ⓘ
Zengzi ⓘ Zigong ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Yan Hui ⓘ |
| courtesyName | Zilu ⓘ |
| culturalRole | model of courageous but sometimes rash conduct in Confucian literature ⓘ |
| discussedIn |
Mencius
ⓘ
later Confucian commentaries ⓘ |
| era | Spring and Autumn period ⓘ |
| ethicalAssociation |
Confucian virtue of courage
ⓘ
Confucian virtue of loyalty ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bravery
ⓘ
frequent dialogue with Confucius in the Analects ⓘ martial spirit ⓘ outspoken nature ⓘ |
| language | Old Chinese ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in political turmoil ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Analects ⓘ |
| moralExemplarFor | courage in Confucian tradition ⓘ |
| nationality | Zhou Chinese ⓘ |
| personalName | Zhong ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | Confucianism ⓘ |
| region |
Eastern Zhou China
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Zhou
|
| roleInAnalects | key interlocutor of Confucius ⓘ |
| servedAs | official ⓘ |
| servedIn |
state of Lu
ⓘ
linked to:
State of Lu
|
| studentOf | Confucius ⓘ |
| styleName | Jiyu ⓘ |
| teacher | Confucius ⓘ |
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: Zilu Description of subject: Zilu was one of Confucius’s most prominent disciples, known for his bravery, straightforwardness, and frequent appearance in the Analects as a key interlocutor.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.