Green Dragon Crescent Blade
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The Green Dragon Crescent Blade is the legendary polearm associated with the Chinese general Guan Yu, famed in history and Romance of the Three Kingdoms for its distinctive crescent-shaped blade and immense symbolic power.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Green Dragon Crescent Blade canonical | 4 |
| guan dao | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8158162 — 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: Green Dragon Crescent Blade Context triple: [Guan Yu, weapon, Green Dragon Crescent Blade]
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A.
Chain Sword
Chain Sword is a retractable, chain-linked blade weapon used by the Jaeger Gipsy Danger in the Pacific Rim universe for close-quarters combat against kaiju.
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B.
Swirral Edge
Swirral Edge is a narrow, rocky arête in England’s Lake District, known as one of the classic scrambling routes leading to the summit of Helvellyn.
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C.
Barrow-blade
Barrow-blade is an enchanted sword from the Barrow-downs in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, notable for being carried by Samwise Gamgee during the quest of the Fellowship of the Ring.
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D.
Grass-Cutting Sword
Grass-Cutting Sword is the English name for Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, a legendary Japanese sword and one of the Three Sacred Treasures of Japan.
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E.
Espada
Espada is a Spanish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in sports, politics, and the arts.
- 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: Green Dragon Crescent Blade Target entity description: The Green Dragon Crescent Blade is the legendary polearm associated with the Chinese general Guan Yu, famed in history and Romance of the Three Kingdoms for its distinctive crescent-shaped blade and immense symbolic power.
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A.
Chain Sword
Chain Sword is a retractable, chain-linked blade weapon used by the Jaeger Gipsy Danger in the Pacific Rim universe for close-quarters combat against kaiju.
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B.
Swirral Edge
Swirral Edge is a narrow, rocky arête in England’s Lake District, known as one of the classic scrambling routes leading to the summit of Helvellyn.
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C.
Barrow-blade
Barrow-blade is an enchanted sword from the Barrow-downs in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, notable for being carried by Samwise Gamgee during the quest of the Fellowship of the Ring.
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D.
Grass-Cutting Sword
Grass-Cutting Sword is the English name for Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, a legendary Japanese sword and one of the Three Sacred Treasures of Japan.
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E.
Espada
Espada is a Spanish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in sports, politics, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese mythological object
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legendary weapon ⓘ polearm ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Green Dragon Yan Yue Dao
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Qinglong Yanyue Dao ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Chinese folk tales
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Chinese opera ⓘ Romance of the Three Kingdoms ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Guan Yu
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms ⓘ Three Kingdoms period ⓘ |
| bladeShape | crescent ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
iconic attribute of Guan Yu
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popular motif in Chinese art ⓘ popular motif in Chinese temple statues ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
ornately decorated
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very heavy weapon ⓘ |
| eraOfMythicSetting |
Three Kingdoms era
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linked to:
Three Kingdoms period
late Eastern Han dynasty ⓘ |
| featuredIn |
Chinese films
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Chinese television dramas ⓘ Chinese video games ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | semi-legendary ⓘ |
| genreContext |
historical novel
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wuxia and martial arts fiction ⓘ |
| hasPart |
crescent-shaped blade
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long shaft ⓘ |
| iconicColor | green ⓘ |
| iconographicRole | attribute in statues of Guan Yu ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | historical guan dao weapons ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Chinese ⓘ |
| material |
metal blade
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wooden shaft ⓘ |
| notableUser | Guan Yu ⓘ |
| primaryMedium |
literature
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performing arts ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| religiousAssociation | Guan Yu worship ⓘ |
| representedIn |
Peking opera
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martial arts stage performances ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
justice
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loyalty ⓘ martial valor ⓘ righteousness ⓘ |
| usedFor |
close combat
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mounted combat ⓘ |
| weaponClass | pole weapon ⓘ |
| weaponType | guan dao ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Green Dragon Crescent Blade Description of subject: The Green Dragon Crescent Blade is the legendary polearm associated with the Chinese general Guan Yu, famed in history and Romance of the Three Kingdoms for its distinctive crescent-shaped blade and immense symbolic power.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Green Dragon Crescent Blade