Yu the Great
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Yu the Great is a legendary Chinese ruler famed for controlling the Great Flood and founding the Xia dynasty, traditionally regarded as China’s first dynasty.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yu the Great canonical | 12 |
| Dayu | 1 |
| 大禹 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7946651 — 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: Yu the Great Context triple: [Zhuanxu, ancestorOf, Yu the Great]
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A.
Zhuanxu
Zhuanxu is a legendary ancient Chinese emperor and cultural hero, traditionally regarded as one of the Five Emperors and an important ancestral figure in early Chinese myth and royal genealogies.
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B.
Huangdi
Huangdi is the Chinese term for "emperor," denoting the supreme sovereign of imperial China.
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C.
Xiaojing Huangdi
Xiaojing Huangdi is the posthumous temple name of Emperor Jing of Han, a Western Han dynasty ruler known for consolidating imperial power and promoting economic stability in ancient China.
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D.
Enlai
Enlai is the given name of Zhou Enlai, the prominent first Premier of the People's Republic of China and a key figure in Chinese Communist history.
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E.
Jiang Ziya
Jiang Ziya is a legendary Chinese strategist and statesman of the late Shang and early Zhou dynasties, famed for helping King Wen and King Wu overthrow the Shang and establish the Zhou dynasty.
- 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: Yu the Great Target entity description: Yu the Great is a legendary Chinese ruler famed for controlling the Great Flood and founding the Xia dynasty, traditionally regarded as China’s first dynasty.
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A.
Zhuanxu
Zhuanxu is a legendary ancient Chinese emperor and cultural hero, traditionally regarded as one of the Five Emperors and an important ancestral figure in early Chinese myth and royal genealogies.
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B.
Huangdi
Huangdi is the Chinese term for "emperor," denoting the supreme sovereign of imperial China.
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C.
Xiaojing Huangdi
Xiaojing Huangdi is the posthumous temple name of Emperor Jing of Han, a Western Han dynasty ruler known for consolidating imperial power and promoting economic stability in ancient China.
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D.
Enlai
Enlai is the given name of Zhou Enlai, the prominent first Premier of the People's Republic of China and a key figure in Chinese Communist history.
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E.
Jiang Ziya
Jiang Ziya is a legendary Chinese strategist and statesman of the late Shang and early Zhou dynasties, famed for helping King Wen and King Wu overthrow the Shang and establish the Zhou dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
founder of a dynasty
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legendary Chinese ruler ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty | Xia dynasty ⓘ |
| associatedEvent |
Great Flood of China
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legendary Great Yu flood control project ⓘ |
| associatedText |
Book of Documents
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Classic of Mountains and Seas ⓘ Records of the Grand Historian ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Kuaiji Mountain
ⓘ
linked to:
Xuedou Mountain
Mount Huanyuan ⓘ Mount Longmen ⓘ Yangtze River basin ⓘ Yellow River ⓘ |
| child | Qi of Xia ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Gun’s failed attempt to stop the flood with dams ⓘ |
| countryOfCulturalOrigin | Ancient China ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| era | pre-dynastic China ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFather | Gun ⓘ |
| historicity | disputed ⓘ |
| influenced |
Confucian ideals of merit and duty
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concept of virtuous rulership in Chinese political thought ⓘ |
| knownForTrait |
devotion to public duty
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diligence ⓘ filial piety ⓘ selflessness ⓘ |
| legacy |
symbol of effective governance and engineering in Chinese tradition
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traditionally regarded as founder of China’s first dynasty ⓘ |
| legendSays | passed his own home three times without entering while controlling the flood ⓘ |
| mentorOrAppointer | Shun ⓘ |
| methodology | dredging rivers and channels to control floods ⓘ |
| nameInChinese |
大禹
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linked to:
Yu the Great
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| notableFor |
controlling the Great Flood
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establishing hereditary rule in China ⓘ flood control and water management ⓘ |
| partOf |
Chinese legendary history
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Chinese mythology ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
ruler of the Xia dynasty
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sage king ⓘ |
| predecessor | Shun ⓘ |
| role | founder of the Xia dynasty ⓘ |
| spouse | Tushan-shi ⓘ |
| successor | Qi of Xia ⓘ |
| traditionalReignEnd | late 21st or early 20th century BCE ⓘ |
| traditionalReignStart | early 21st century BCE ⓘ |
| veneratedAs |
culture hero
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god of flood control ⓘ model ruler ⓘ |
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: Yu the Great Description of subject: Yu the Great is a legendary Chinese ruler famed for controlling the Great Flood and founding the Xia dynasty, traditionally regarded as China’s first dynasty.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.