Sima Zhao
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Sima Zhao was a powerful late Three Kingdoms-era statesman and general of the Cao Wei state whose dominance paved the way for his son Sima Yan to found the Jin dynasty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sima Zhao canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7877866 — 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 Zhao Context triple: [Cao Wei, deFactoControlBy, Sima Zhao]
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A.
Sima Yi
Sima Yi was a prominent Chinese military strategist and statesman who played a pivotal role in the rise of the Cao Wei state during the late Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms period.
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B.
Zhuge Jin
Zhuge Jin was a prominent statesman and military general of the Eastern Wu kingdom during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known also as the elder brother of the famed strategist Zhuge Liang.
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C.
Sima Shi
Sima Shi was a powerful 3rd-century Chinese general and regent of the Cao Wei state who, as a leading member of the Sima clan, laid crucial groundwork for the eventual establishment of the Jin dynasty.
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D.
Jiang Wei
Jiang Wei was a prominent Shu Han general and strategist during China’s Three Kingdoms era, known for continuing Zhuge Liang’s northern campaigns against the state of Wei.
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E.
Deng Ai
Deng Ai was a prominent Shu-Han–born general of the state of Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms era, best known for his bold campaign that led to the conquest of Shu.
- 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 Zhao Target entity description: Sima Zhao was a powerful late Three Kingdoms-era statesman and general of the Cao Wei state whose dominance paved the way for his son Sima Yan to found the Jin dynasty.
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A.
Sima Yi
Sima Yi was a prominent Chinese military strategist and statesman who played a pivotal role in the rise of the Cao Wei state during the late Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms period.
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B.
Zhuge Jin
Zhuge Jin was a prominent statesman and military general of the Eastern Wu kingdom during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known also as the elder brother of the famed strategist Zhuge Liang.
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C.
Sima Shi
Sima Shi was a powerful 3rd-century Chinese general and regent of the Cao Wei state who, as a leading member of the Sima clan, laid crucial groundwork for the eventual establishment of the Jin dynasty.
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D.
Jiang Wei
Jiang Wei was a prominent Shu Han general and strategist during China’s Three Kingdoms era, known for continuing Zhuge Liang’s northern campaigns against the state of Wei.
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E.
Deng Ai
Deng Ai was a prominent Shu-Han–born general of the state of Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms era, best known for his bold campaign that led to the conquest of Shu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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 Zhao Description of subject: Sima Zhao was a powerful late Three Kingdoms-era statesman and general of the Cao Wei state whose dominance paved the way for his son Sima Yan to found the Jin dynasty.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.