Ye Xian
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Ye Xian is a Chinese folk tale heroine often regarded as one of the earliest known versions of the Cinderella story, featuring themes of an oppressed girl aided by magical intervention to achieve justice and transformation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ye Xian canonical | 2 |
| Ye Xian (Chinese folk tale) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8763051 — 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: Ye Xian Context triple: [Cinderella (fairy tale), hasVariant, Ye Xian]
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A.
Shen Te
Shen Te is the central character in Bertolt Brecht’s play "The Good Person of Szechwan," a compassionate but struggling woman whose attempts to live morally in a corrupt society force her to adopt a harsher alter ego.
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B.
Snow Ruyi
Snow Ruyi is a landmark ski jumping venue in Zhangjiakou, China, built for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and named for its resemblance to a traditional Chinese ruyi scepter.
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C.
Madame Liu-Tsong
Madame Liu-Tsong, better known as Anna May Wong, was a pioneering Chinese American film and television actress who became Hollywood’s first major Asian American movie star in the early 20th century.
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D.
Princess Yangxin
Princess Yangxin was a Han dynasty imperial princess, known as a daughter of Emperor Jing of Han and a member of the Western Han royal family.
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E.
Lady Dong
Lady Dong was a consort of Emperor Ling of Han and the mother of one of his imperial offspring during the late Eastern Han dynasty in China.
- 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: Ye Xian Target entity description: Ye Xian is a Chinese folk tale heroine often regarded as one of the earliest known versions of the Cinderella story, featuring themes of an oppressed girl aided by magical intervention to achieve justice and transformation.
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A.
Shen Te
Shen Te is the central character in Bertolt Brecht’s play "The Good Person of Szechwan," a compassionate but struggling woman whose attempts to live morally in a corrupt society force her to adopt a harsher alter ego.
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B.
Snow Ruyi
Snow Ruyi is a landmark ski jumping venue in Zhangjiakou, China, built for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and named for its resemblance to a traditional Chinese ruyi scepter.
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C.
Madame Liu-Tsong
Madame Liu-Tsong, better known as Anna May Wong, was a pioneering Chinese American film and television actress who became Hollywood’s first major Asian American movie star in the early 20th century.
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D.
Princess Yangxin
Princess Yangxin was a Han dynasty imperial princess, known as a daughter of Emperor Jing of Han and a member of the Western Han royal family.
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E.
Lady Dong
Lady Dong was a consort of Emperor Ling of Han and the mother of one of his imperial offspring during the late Eastern Han dynasty in China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cinderella-type character
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fictional character ⓘ folk tale heroine ⓘ |
| achieves |
justice
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social elevation ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Ye Xian (Chinese folk tale)
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linked to:
Ye Xian
|
| attends | festival ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| earliestTextualSource | Youyang Zazu ⓘ |
| earliestTextualSourceAuthor | Duan Chengshi ⓘ |
| earliestTextualSourceLanguage | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| familyRole | stepdaughter ⓘ |
| familySituation | orphaned girl ⓘ |
| firstRecordedIn | Duanzhou region tradition (attributed) ⓘ |
| genre |
fairy tale
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folk tale ⓘ |
| hasMagicalObject |
beautiful garments
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golden shoe ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
magical assistance
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oppression ⓘ recognition by a shoe ⓘ reward for virtue ⓘ social injustice ⓘ transformation ⓘ |
| influenced | later Cinderella variants scholarship ⓘ |
| isHelpedBy |
magical fish
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supernatural being ⓘ |
| isOppressedBy |
stepmother
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stepsister ⓘ |
| isRecognizedBy | shoe ⓘ |
| isRegardedAs |
one of the earliest known Cinderella figures
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precursor to the European Cinderella story ⓘ |
| loses | shoe ⓘ |
| marries | king ⓘ |
| moralQuality |
filial piety
ⓘ
kindness ⓘ patience ⓘ |
| mustLeave | festival in haste ⓘ |
| narrativeMotif |
animal helper
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magic bones or remains granting wishes ⓘ persecuted heroine ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| narrativeType | rags-to-riches story ⓘ |
| shoeIsFoundBy | king ⓘ |
| studiedInField |
comparative literature
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fairy-tale studies ⓘ folklore studies ⓘ |
| timeOfEarliestRecord | 9th century ⓘ |
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: Ye Xian Description of subject: Ye Xian is a Chinese folk tale heroine often regarded as one of the earliest known versions of the Cinderella story, featuring themes of an oppressed girl aided by magical intervention to achieve justice and transformation.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.