Feng Jicai
E751173
cultural preservationist
cultural scholar
essayist
folk culture researcher
human
novelist
short story writer
Feng Jicai is a prominent Chinese writer, cultural scholar, and preservationist known for his fiction and his efforts to protect China's urban and folk cultural heritage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Feng Jicai canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8681665 — 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: Feng Jicai Context triple: [Feng, hasNotableBearer, Feng Jicai]
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A.
Ha Jin
Ha Jin is a Chinese American novelist and poet renowned for his works exploring the Cultural Revolution and immigrant experiences, including the National Book Award–winning novel "Waiting."
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B.
Gu Changwei
Gu Changwei is a renowned Chinese cinematographer and film director known for his work on acclaimed films such as "Farewell My Concubine" and "Red Sorghum."
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C.
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.
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D.
Cao Yan
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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E.
Yu Fengzhi
Yu Fengzhi was a Chinese educator and social activist best known as the wife of warlord Zhang Xueliang and for her later work promoting Chinese culture and education abroad.
- 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: Feng Jicai Target entity description: Feng Jicai is a prominent Chinese writer, cultural scholar, and preservationist known for his fiction and his efforts to protect China's urban and folk cultural heritage.
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A.
Ha Jin
Ha Jin is a Chinese American novelist and poet renowned for his works exploring the Cultural Revolution and immigrant experiences, including the National Book Award–winning novel "Waiting."
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B.
Gu Changwei
Gu Changwei is a renowned Chinese cinematographer and film director known for his work on acclaimed films such as "Farewell My Concubine" and "Red Sorghum."
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C.
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.
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D.
Cao Yan
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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E.
Yu Fengzhi
Yu Fengzhi was a Chinese educator and social activist best known as the wife of warlord Zhang Xueliang and for her later work promoting Chinese culture and education abroad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural preservationist
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cultural scholar ⓘ essayist ⓘ folk culture researcher ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived | national literary prizes in China ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Tianjin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cultural heritage protection
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folk culture ⓘ literature ⓘ urban culture ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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magic realism ⓘ realist fiction ⓘ |
| hasRole |
advocate for intangible cultural heritage
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urban cultural heritage activist ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Chinese folk tales
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Cultural Revolution experiences ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
Chinese contemporary fiction
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cultural heritage preservation in China ⓘ protection of urban historical neighborhoods ⓘ research on Chinese folk traditions ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Chinese ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary Chinese literature ⓘ |
| name | Feng Jicai ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 冯骥才 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ten Years of Madness
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The Miraculous Pigtail ⓘ The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband ⓘ The Three-Inch Golden Lotus ⓘ |
| occupation |
painter
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professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tianjin ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
leader in Chinese folk culture protection initiatives
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member of national cultural heritage committees in China ⓘ |
| workFocus |
documentation of folk customs
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oral history of ordinary people ⓘ preservation of traditional crafts ⓘ protection of old Tianjin cityscape ⓘ |
| writingPeriod |
early 21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
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: Feng Jicai Description of subject: Feng Jicai is a prominent Chinese writer, cultural scholar, and preservationist known for his fiction and his efforts to protect China's urban and folk cultural heritage.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.