Yijing
E655848
Yijing was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, and translator renowned for his extensive travels to India and Southeast Asia to study and transmit Buddhist teachings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yijing canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7306772 — 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: Yijing Context triple: [Nalanda, visitedBy, Yijing]
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A.
I Ching
The I Ching, or "Book of Changes," is an ancient Chinese divination text and foundational work of Chinese philosophy that uses a system of hexagrams and trigrams to explore change, balance, and decision-making.
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B.
Book of the Eight Tones
The Book of the Eight Tones is a liturgical hymn book used in Eastern Christian worship that organizes chants according to eight musical modes.
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C.
Lingbao scriptures
The Lingbao scriptures are a major corpus of early medieval Daoist religious texts that systematized Daoist cosmology, ritual, and soteriology and became foundational within the Daoist canon.
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D.
Daozang
Daozang is the vast canonical collection of Taoist scriptures, rituals, and commentaries compiled over centuries as the primary literary foundation of Taoist religious and philosophical tradition.
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E.
Guoyu
Guoyu is the official standardized form of the Chinese language used in mainland China and other Chinese-speaking regions.
- 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: Yijing Target entity description: Yijing was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, and translator renowned for his extensive travels to India and Southeast Asia to study and transmit Buddhist teachings.
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A.
I Ching
The I Ching, or "Book of Changes," is an ancient Chinese divination text and foundational work of Chinese philosophy that uses a system of hexagrams and trigrams to explore change, balance, and decision-making.
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B.
Book of the Eight Tones
The Book of the Eight Tones is a liturgical hymn book used in Eastern Christian worship that organizes chants according to eight musical modes.
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C.
Lingbao scriptures
The Lingbao scriptures are a major corpus of early medieval Daoist religious texts that systematized Daoist cosmology, ritual, and soteriology and became foundational within the Daoist canon.
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D.
Daozang
Daozang is the vast canonical collection of Taoist scriptures, rituals, and commentaries compiled over centuries as the primary literary foundation of Taoist religious and philosophical tradition.
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E.
Guoyu
Guoyu is the official standardized form of the Chinese language used in mainland China and other Chinese-speaking regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist scholar
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Chinese Buddhist monk ⓘ pilgrim ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
7th century
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8th century ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
documentation of Buddhist practices in Southeast Asia
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transmission of Buddhism from India to China ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| era | Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Buddhist studies
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translation of religious texts ⓘ travel writing ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | medieval period ⓘ |
| influenced |
Chinese understanding of Indian Buddhism
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later East Asian Buddhist scholarship ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to understanding of Buddhist monastic discipline
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detailed travel records of India and Southeast Asia ⓘ translation of Buddhist scriptures into Chinese ⓘ traveling to India to study Buddhism ⓘ traveling to Southeast Asia to study Buddhism ⓘ |
| languageSkill |
Chinese
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Pali ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ |
| movement | Buddhism in Tang China ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Account of Buddhism Sent from the South Seas
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Record of Buddhist Practices Sent Home from the Southern Seas ⓘ |
| occupation |
monk
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scholar ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| roleInBuddhism |
documenter of monastic customs
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transmitter of Buddhist teachings ⓘ |
| sourceFor |
history of Buddhism in India
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history of Buddhism in Southeast Asia ⓘ history of Srivijaya ⓘ history of Tang-era Buddhist contacts with India ⓘ |
| studied |
Buddhist monastic discipline (Vinaya)
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Buddhist scriptures ⓘ |
| traveledTo |
India
ⓘ
Nalanda ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ Srivijaya ⓘ
linked to:
Srivijaya Empire
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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: Yijing Description of subject: Yijing was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, and translator renowned for his extensive travels to India and Southeast Asia to study and transmit Buddhist teachings.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.