Jing Ke
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Jing Ke was a famed Warring States–era assassin best known for his failed attempt to kill the Qin king, later Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8342949 — 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: Jing Ke Context triple: [State of Yan, notableFigure, Jing Ke]
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A.
Lian Po
Lian Po was a renowned military general of the Warring States period in ancient China, celebrated for his defensive strategies and service to the state of Zhao.
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B.
Wu Zixu
Wu Zixu was a prominent Chinese statesman and military strategist of the late Spring and Autumn period, best known for helping the State of Wu rise to power and for his enduring legacy in Chinese historical and cultural tradition.
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C.
Bai Qi
Bai Qi was a renowned Qin general of the Warring States period, famed for his brilliant military strategies and ruthless effectiveness on the battlefield.
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D.
Yong Duk Jhun
Yong Duk Jhun is a South Korean-born cinematographer and animator best known for his visual work on major DreamWorks animated films, including the Kung Fu Panda series.
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E.
Kong Ji
Kong Ji was a Chinese philosopher of the late Spring and Autumn period, the grandson of Confucius, traditionally regarded as the author of the Confucian classic "Doctrine of the Mean."
- 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: Jing Ke Target entity description: Jing Ke was a famed Warring States–era assassin best known for his failed attempt to kill the Qin king, later Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
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A.
Lian Po
Lian Po was a renowned military general of the Warring States period in ancient China, celebrated for his defensive strategies and service to the state of Zhao.
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B.
Wu Zixu
Wu Zixu was a prominent Chinese statesman and military strategist of the late Spring and Autumn period, best known for helping the State of Wu rise to power and for his enduring legacy in Chinese historical and cultural tradition.
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C.
Bai Qi
Bai Qi was a renowned Qin general of the Warring States period, famed for his brilliant military strategies and ruthless effectiveness on the battlefield.
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D.
Yong Duk Jhun
Yong Duk Jhun is a South Korean-born cinematographer and animator best known for his visual work on major DreamWorks animated films, including the Kung Fu Panda series.
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E.
Kong Ji
Kong Ji was a Chinese philosopher of the late Spring and Autumn period, the grandson of Confucius, traditionally regarded as the author of the Confucian classic "Doctrine of the Mean."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Warring States period person
ⓘ
assassin ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | Warring States period ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Crown Prince Dan
ⓘ
linked to:
Prince Dan of Yan
Kingdom of Qin ⓘ
linked to:
state of Qin
Qin Shi Huang ⓘ state of Yan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Yan ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| depictedIn | Records of the Grand Historian ⓘ |
| describedBySource | Records of the Grand Historian ⓘ |
| employer |
Crown Prince Dan of Yan
ⓘ
linked to:
Prince Dan of Yan
|
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| fictionalizedIn |
Chinese historical dramas
ⓘ
Chinese opera ⓘ wuxia novels ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfRepresentation | heroic biography ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalStoryElement |
bringing the severed head of a Qin traitor as a pretext for audience
ⓘ
chasing the King of Qin around a pillar ⓘ presentation of a map concealing a dagger ⓘ |
| hasChineseName |
荊軻
ⓘ
linked to:
Jing Ke
|
| hasGenreOfStory | youxia tale ⓘ |
| influenced |
later Chinese literature about assassins
ⓘ
martial-hero (wuxia) traditions ⓘ |
| knownFor |
attempting to stop Qin expansion
ⓘ
courage ⓘ loyalty to Prince Dan of Yan ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| legacy |
iconic assassin in Chinese cultural memory
ⓘ
symbol of resistance against tyranny ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed during failed assassination attempt ⓘ |
| motive |
loyalty to his patron Prince Dan
ⓘ
to protect Yan from Qin conquest ⓘ |
| notableEvent | assassination attempt on the King of Qin ⓘ |
| notableFor |
attempted assassination of the King of Qin
ⓘ
failed attempt to kill Qin Shi Huang ⓘ |
| occupation | assassin ⓘ |
| opponent | Qin state expansion ⓘ |
| partOf | Assassins of the Warring States tradition ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Qin court ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
patriotic hero of Yan
ⓘ
righteous assassin ⓘ |
| served |
Crown Prince Dan of Yan
ⓘ
linked to:
Prince Dan of Yan
|
| targetOfAssassination |
King Zheng of Qin
ⓘ
linked to:
King Zhuangxiang of Qin
Qin Shi Huang ⓘ |
| timeOfActivity | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| transcribedName | Jīng Kē ⓘ |
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: Jing Ke Description of subject: Jing Ke was a famed Warring States–era assassin best known for his failed attempt to kill the Qin king, later Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.