Wang Ji
E521704
Wang Ji was a Ming dynasty Confucian philosopher and prominent disciple of Wang Yangming who helped develop and transmit the School of Mind tradition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wang Ji canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5449661 — 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: Wang Ji Context triple: [Wang Yangming, taught, Wang Ji]
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A.
Ba Lu Jun
Ba Lu Jun is the Chinese name for the Eighth Route Army, a major Communist-led force that fought against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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B.
Zhu Youjiao
Zhu Youjiao, better known as the Tianqi Emperor, was a late Ming dynasty ruler whose short and troubled reign was dominated by the powerful eunuch Wei Zhongxian and marked by political corruption and decline.
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C.
Li Jiayu
Li Jiayu was a Chinese military officer and general associated with the National Revolutionary Army during the Republican era.
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D.
Wu Tong
Wu Tong is a Chinese musician and vocalist known for his mastery of traditional instruments like the sheng and for his collaborations in world and classical music projects.
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E.
Wu Yi
Wu Yi is a Chinese politician who served as Vice Premier of the State Council and was widely known for her leadership in economic policy and public health crises such as the SARS outbreak.
- 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: Wang Ji Target entity description: Wang Ji was a Ming dynasty Confucian philosopher and prominent disciple of Wang Yangming who helped develop and transmit the School of Mind tradition.
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A.
Ba Lu Jun
Ba Lu Jun is the Chinese name for the Eighth Route Army, a major Communist-led force that fought against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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B.
Zhu Youjiao
Zhu Youjiao, better known as the Tianqi Emperor, was a late Ming dynasty ruler whose short and troubled reign was dominated by the powerful eunuch Wei Zhongxian and marked by political corruption and decline.
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C.
Li Jiayu
Li Jiayu was a Chinese military officer and general associated with the National Revolutionary Army during the Republican era.
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D.
Wu Tong
Wu Tong is a Chinese musician and vocalist known for his mastery of traditional instruments like the sheng and for his collaborations in world and classical music projects.
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E.
Wu Yi
Wu Yi is a Chinese politician who served as Vice Premier of the State Council and was widely known for her leadership in economic policy and public health crises such as the SARS outbreak.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confucian philosopher
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Ming dynasty person ⓘ disciple ⓘ person ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| doctrine |
School of Mind
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innate knowing ⓘ unity of knowledge and action ⓘ |
| era | Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Wang ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Confucian studies
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Neo-Confucianism ⓘ ethics ⓘ moral philosophy ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| genre |
Confucian commentary
ⓘ
philosophical writing ⓘ |
| givenName | Ji ⓘ |
| influenced | later Yangming scholars ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Lu Jiuyuan
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Mencius ⓘ Wang Yangming ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Chinese ⓘ |
| movement |
School of Mind
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Yangming school ⓘ |
| name | Wang Ji ⓘ |
| notableFor |
developing the School of Mind tradition
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interpretation of innate knowing (liangzhi) ⓘ transmitting Wang Yangming’s teachings ⓘ |
| notableWork | Chuanxilu commentary ⓘ |
| occupation |
philosopher
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scholar ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
Confucianism
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Neo-Confucianism ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Ming China
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linked to:
Ming dynasty
|
| religion | Confucianism ⓘ |
| role |
key transmitter of Yangming learning
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prominent disciple of Wang Yangming ⓘ |
| studentOf | Wang Yangming ⓘ |
| traditionTransmitted |
Wang Yangming’s School of Mind
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linked to:
Yangming school
|
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: Wang Ji Description of subject: Wang Ji was a Ming dynasty Confucian philosopher and prominent disciple of Wang Yangming who helped develop and transmit the School of Mind tradition.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.