Sima clan
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The Sima clan was a powerful Chinese family that rose to dominance as regents of the Cao Wei state and ultimately founded the Jin dynasty, unifying China in the 3rd century.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sima clan canonical | 13 |
| House of Sima | 3 |
| Sima clan of Henei | 2 |
| Sima family | 2 |
| Sima clan princes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7877863 — 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: Sima clan Context triple: [Cao Wei, notableRegentFamily, Sima clan]
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A.
Ji clan
The Ji clan was one of the three powerful aristocratic lineages that dominated the politics of the ancient Chinese State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn period.
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B.
House of Jiang
The House of Jiang was the ruling clan that established and governed the ancient Chinese state of Qi during the Zhou dynasty period.
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C.
Mengsun clan
The Mengsun clan was one of the prominent aristocratic lineages in the ancient Chinese State of Lu, influential in its political and social affairs.
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D.
Xiong clan
The Xiong clan was the hereditary noble family that provided the kings of the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the Zhou dynasty.
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E.
Sun clan
The Sun clan was the ruling family of the Eastern Wu state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, producing warlords such as Sun Quan who established and led the regime.
- 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: Sima clan Target entity description: The Sima clan was a powerful Chinese family that rose to dominance as regents of the Cao Wei state and ultimately founded the Jin dynasty, unifying China in the 3rd century.
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A.
Ji clan
The Ji clan was one of the three powerful aristocratic lineages that dominated the politics of the ancient Chinese State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn period.
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B.
House of Jiang
The House of Jiang was the ruling clan that established and governed the ancient Chinese state of Qi during the Zhou dynasty period.
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C.
Mengsun clan
The Mengsun clan was one of the prominent aristocratic lineages in the ancient Chinese State of Lu, influential in its political and social affairs.
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D.
Xiong clan
The Xiong clan was the hereditary noble family that provided the kings of the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the Zhou dynasty.
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E.
Sun clan
The Sun clan was the ruling family of the Eastern Wu state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, producing warlords such as Sun Quan who established and led the regime.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Sima clan Description of subject: The Sima clan was a powerful Chinese family that rose to dominance as regents of the Cao Wei state and ultimately founded the Jin dynasty, unifying China in the 3rd century.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sima clan
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subject linked to:
Emperor Xuan of Jin