Tao Qian
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Tao Qian was a late Eastern Han dynasty warlord and governor of Xu Province, best known for ceding his territory to Liu Bei before his death.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tao Yuanming | 6 |
| Tao Qian canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7947621 — 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: Tao Qian Context triple: [Liu Bei, servedUnder, Tao Qian]
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A.
Qi Xin
Qi Xin is a Chinese revolutionary and former Party official best known as the mother of China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping.
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B.
Tao Chi’en
Tao Chi’en is a compassionate Chinese physician and immigrant in Isabel Allende’s novel "Daughter of Fortune," known for his moral integrity and deep bond with the protagonist, Eliza Sommers.
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C.
Yongming Yanshou
Yongming Yanshou was a 10th-century Chinese Buddhist monk renowned for integrating Chan (Zen) and Pure Land practices, profoundly shaping East Asian Pure Land thought.
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D.
Yan Xiu
Yan Xiu was a prominent early 20th-century Chinese educator and reformer who played a key role in modernizing China's education system.
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E.
Qu Yuan
Qu Yuan was an ancient Chinese poet and statesman of the Warring States period, renowned for his patriotic verse and associated with the origins of the Dragon Boat Festival.
- 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: Tao Qian Target entity description: Tao Qian was a late Eastern Han dynasty warlord and governor of Xu Province, best known for ceding his territory to Liu Bei before his death.
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A.
Qi Xin
Qi Xin is a Chinese revolutionary and former Party official best known as the mother of China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping.
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B.
Tao Chi’en
Tao Chi’en is a compassionate Chinese physician and immigrant in Isabel Allende’s novel "Daughter of Fortune," known for his moral integrity and deep bond with the protagonist, Eliza Sommers.
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C.
Yongming Yanshou
Yongming Yanshou was a 10th-century Chinese Buddhist monk renowned for integrating Chan (Zen) and Pure Land practices, profoundly shaping East Asian Pure Land thought.
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D.
Yan Xiu
Yan Xiu was a prominent early 20th-century Chinese educator and reformer who played a key role in modernizing China's education system.
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E.
Qu Yuan
Qu Yuan was an ancient Chinese poet and statesman of the Warring States period, renowned for his patriotic verse and associated with the origins of the Dragon Boat Festival.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Han dynasty person
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historical figure ⓘ politician ⓘ warlord ⓘ |
| allegiance | Eastern Han dynasty ⓘ |
| authorityOver | local commanderies within Xu Province ⓘ |
| causeOfConflictWithCaoCao | involvement in the death of Cao Cao’s father Cao Song ⓘ |
| conflict | late Eastern Han warlord era conflicts ⓘ |
| country | Eastern Han dynasty ⓘ |
| courtesyName | Gongzu ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Xu Province ⓘ |
| era |
late Eastern Han dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Han dynasty
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| fictionalizedAs | a benevolent but ailing governor who entrusts Xu Province to Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| governedRegion | Xu Province ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | end of the Eastern Han dynasty ⓘ |
| historicalSource |
Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi)
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linked to:
Records of the Three Kingdoms
Zizhi Tongjian ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ceding Xu Province to Liu Bei before his death
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governing Xu Province during the late Eastern Han dynasty ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Chinese ⓘ |
| legacy | remembered for yielding his territory to Liu Bei ⓘ |
| name | Tao Qian ⓘ |
| notableInteraction |
Cao Cao
ⓘ
Liu Bei ⓘ |
| occupation |
governor
ⓘ
warlord ⓘ |
| politicalRole |
provincial governor
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regional warlord ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Romance of the Three Kingdoms ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Xu Province ⓘ |
| predecessorAsGovernorOfXuProvince | Yin Li ⓘ |
| region | present-day Jiangsu and Anhui area ⓘ |
| successionAction | invited Liu Bei to take over Xu Province ⓘ |
| successorAsGovernorOfXuProvince | Liu Bei ⓘ |
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: Tao Qian Description of subject: Tao Qian was a late Eastern Han dynasty warlord and governor of Xu Province, best known for ceding his territory to Liu Bei before his death.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tao Qian
linked to: Tao Qian
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linked to: Tao Qian