Yang Sun
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Yang Sun is an opportunistic, morally ambiguous pilot whose relationship with the protagonist Shen Te highlights themes of selfishness and survival in Bertolt Brecht’s play "The Good Person of Szechwan."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yang Sun canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6751273 — 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: Yang Sun Context triple: [The Good Person of Szechwan, character, Yang Sun]
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A.
Jian Sun
Jian Sun is a Chinese computer vision researcher known for his influential work in deep learning and as a co-author of the seminal ResNet architecture.
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B.
Yangqing Jia
Yangqing Jia is a computer scientist and software engineer known for his influential work in deep learning and computer vision, including contributions to convolutional neural network architectures and open-source frameworks.
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C.
Yu Xuezhong
Yu Xuezhong was a prominent Chinese military leader associated with the Northeastern Army during the Republican era.
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D.
Xing Li
Xing Li is a computer networking expert known for co-authoring IETF standards, including RFC 6145 on IPv4/IPv6 translation mechanisms.
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E.
Shaobo Qin
Shaobo Qin is a Chinese acrobat and actor best known for playing the agile explosives expert Yen in the Ocean's film series.
- 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: Yang Sun Target entity description: Yang Sun is an opportunistic, morally ambiguous pilot whose relationship with the protagonist Shen Te highlights themes of selfishness and survival in Bertolt Brecht’s play "The Good Person of Szechwan."
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A.
Jian Sun
Jian Sun is a Chinese computer vision researcher known for his influential work in deep learning and as a co-author of the seminal ResNet architecture.
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B.
Yangqing Jia
Yangqing Jia is a computer scientist and software engineer known for his influential work in deep learning and computer vision, including contributions to convolutional neural network architectures and open-source frameworks.
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C.
Yu Xuezhong
Yu Xuezhong was a prominent Chinese military leader associated with the Northeastern Army during the Republican era.
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D.
Xing Li
Xing Li is a computer networking expert known for co-authoring IETF standards, including RFC 6145 on IPv4/IPv6 translation mechanisms.
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E.
Shaobo Qin
Shaobo Qin is a Chinese acrobat and actor best known for playing the agile explosives expert Yen in the Ocean's film series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Good Person of Szechwan ⓘ |
| appearsInAct |
Act II of The Good Person of Szechwan
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linked to:
The Good Person of Szechwan
|
| associatedWithTheme |
corruption of love by money
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economic hardship ⓘ exploitation in relationships ⓘ moral compromise ⓘ selfishness ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| authorStyleContext | epic theatre techniques ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
morally ambiguous
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opportunistic ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ self‑interested ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Shen Te
ⓘ
Shui Ta ⓘ |
| creator | Bertolt Brecht ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Good Person of Szechwan universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Good Person of Szechwan
|
| firstPerformanceOfWork | 1943 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | epic theatre ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith | Shen Te ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | German ⓘ |
| medium | stage ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
economic survival
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self‑preservation ⓘ social advancement ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
drives Shen Te toward adopting Shui Ta persona
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tests Shen Te’s goodness ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| occupation | pilot ⓘ |
| partOf | Brecht’s exploration of morality under capitalism ⓘ |
| relationshipType |
exploitative relationship with Shen Te
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romantic relationship with Shen Te ⓘ |
| roleInWork | major character ⓘ |
| setIn |
Szechwan
ⓘ
linked to:
Sichuan Province
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| thematicRole |
agent of Shen Te’s moral conflict
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contrast to Shen Te’s goodness ⓘ critique of bourgeois individualism ⓘ embodiment of selfishness ⓘ embodiment of survival instinct ⓘ |
| usedFor | Brechtian didactic purposes ⓘ |
| workForm | play ⓘ |
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: Yang Sun Description of subject: Yang Sun is an opportunistic, morally ambiguous pilot whose relationship with the protagonist Shen Te highlights themes of selfishness and survival in Bertolt Brecht’s play "The Good Person of Szechwan."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.