Yunxiang Yan
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Yunxiang Yan is a prominent anthropologist and scholar of contemporary Chinese society, known for his influential ethnographic studies on rural China, family life, and social change.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yunxiang Yan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7781139 — 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: Yunxiang Yan Context triple: [Richard Madsen, notableStudent, Yunxiang Yan]
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A.
Yanluo Wang
Yanluo Wang is the Chinese deity who presides over the underworld and judges the souls of the dead.
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B.
Yuhuai Wu
Yuhuai Wu is an AI researcher and entrepreneur known for his work on large language models and as a member of Elon Musk’s xAI team.
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C.
Geling Yan
Geling Yan is a Chinese-American novelist and screenwriter known for her emotionally powerful works that often explore the human impact of war, political upheaval, and social change in modern Chinese history.
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D.
Jun-Yan Zhu
Jun-Yan Zhu is a computer scientist and researcher known for his influential work in computer vision and generative models, particularly in image-to-image translation.
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E.
Ziyu Wang
Ziyu Wang is a machine learning researcher best known for co-developing the dueling deep Q-network (Dueling DQN) architecture in deep reinforcement learning.
- 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: Yunxiang Yan Target entity description: Yunxiang Yan is a prominent anthropologist and scholar of contemporary Chinese society, known for his influential ethnographic studies on rural China, family life, and social change.
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A.
Yanluo Wang
Yanluo Wang is the Chinese deity who presides over the underworld and judges the souls of the dead.
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B.
Yuhuai Wu
Yuhuai Wu is an AI researcher and entrepreneur known for his work on large language models and as a member of Elon Musk’s xAI team.
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C.
Geling Yan
Geling Yan is a Chinese-American novelist and screenwriter known for her emotionally powerful works that often explore the human impact of war, political upheaval, and social change in modern Chinese history.
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D.
Jun-Yan Zhu
Jun-Yan Zhu is a computer scientist and researcher known for his influential work in computer vision and generative models, particularly in image-to-image translation.
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E.
Ziyu Wang
Ziyu Wang is a machine learning researcher best known for co-developing the dueling deep Q-network (Dueling DQN) architecture in deep reinforcement learning.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
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scholar ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
Chinese studies
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anthropology ⓘ |
| countryOfResearchFocus | China ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Peking University ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Chinese studies
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anthropology ⓘ contemporary Chinese society ⓘ ethnography ⓘ family studies ⓘ rural sociology ⓘ social anthropology ⓘ |
| genre |
academic writing
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ethnography ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
Chinese peasants
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gift economies in China ⓘ individualization in post-Mao China ⓘ intimacy and marriage in rural China ⓘ moral and ethical change in Chinese society ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Chinese
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English ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
analysis of social change in contemporary China
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ethnographic studies of rural China ⓘ studies of Chinese family life ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Conflicting Images: Reform, Social Networks, and Rural Urbanization in China
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Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949–1999 ⓘ The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village ⓘ The Individualization of Chinese Society ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
family life in China
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gift exchange ⓘ individualization ⓘ moral transformation in China ⓘ peasant studies ⓘ reciprocity ⓘ rural China ⓘ rural-urban migration in China ⓘ social change in China ⓘ |
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: Yunxiang Yan Description of subject: Yunxiang Yan is a prominent anthropologist and scholar of contemporary Chinese society, known for his influential ethnographic studies on rural China, family life, and social change.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.