Cao Yan
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Cao Yan was a lesser-known member of the Cao Wei imperial clan during China’s Three Kingdoms period, recognized primarily for his adoption by the Wei emperor Cao Rui.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cao Yan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8407308 — 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: Cao Yan Context triple: [Cao Rui, adoptedSon, Cao Yan]
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A.
Wu Han
Wu Han was a prominent Chinese historian and politician whose critical play about a Ming dynasty official became a key trigger for the Cultural Revolution.
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B.
Zhao Xiaoding
Zhao Xiaoding is a Chinese cinematographer best known for his visually striking work on major films such as "House of Flying Daggers" and other collaborations with director Zhang Yimou.
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C.
He Yan
He Yan was a prominent third-century Chinese philosopher and scholar-official of the Wei dynasty, best known as a leading figure of Xuanxue (Neo-Daoism) and for his influential commentarial work on the Confucian classics.
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D.
Chen Yaozu
Chen Yaozu was a Chinese military figure and graduate of the prestigious Yunnan Military Academy, known for producing many influential officers in modern Chinese history.
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E.
Yang Yong
Yang Yong was a prominent Chinese military general who played key roles in the Chinese Civil War and early People's Republic of China military campaigns.
- 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: Cao Yan Target entity description: Cao Yan was a lesser-known member of the Cao Wei imperial clan during China’s Three Kingdoms period, recognized primarily for his adoption by the Wei emperor Cao Rui.
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A.
Wu Han
Wu Han was a prominent Chinese historian and politician whose critical play about a Ming dynasty official became a key trigger for the Cultural Revolution.
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B.
Zhao Xiaoding
Zhao Xiaoding is a Chinese cinematographer best known for his visually striking work on major films such as "House of Flying Daggers" and other collaborations with director Zhang Yimou.
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C.
He Yan
He Yan was a prominent third-century Chinese philosopher and scholar-official of the Wei dynasty, best known as a leading figure of Xuanxue (Neo-Daoism) and for his influential commentarial work on the Confucian classics.
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D.
Chen Yaozu
Chen Yaozu was a Chinese military figure and graduate of the prestigious Yunnan Military Academy, known for producing many influential officers in modern Chinese history.
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E.
Yang Yong
Yang Yong was a prominent Chinese military general who played key roles in the Chinese Civil War and early People's Republic of China military campaigns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cao Wei imperial clan member
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emperor of Cao Wei ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| adoptedBy | Cao Rui ⓘ |
| adoptedSon | Cao Yan ⓘ |
| country | Cao Wei ⓘ |
| dynasty | Wei ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Cao ⓘ |
| givenName | Yan ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | lesser-known member of the imperial clan ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Chinese ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Cao Wei imperial clan
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linked to:
House of Cao
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| notableFor | being adopted by Cao Rui ⓘ |
| region | China ⓘ |
| relativeOf | Cao Rui ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Three Kingdoms period ⓘ |
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: Cao Yan Description of subject: Cao Yan was a lesser-known member of the Cao Wei imperial clan during China’s Three Kingdoms period, recognized primarily for his adoption by the Wei emperor Cao Rui.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.