Erlang (son of Li Bing)
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Erlang (son of Li Bing) was an ancient Chinese engineer and official traditionally credited with helping complete and refine the Dujiangyan Irrigation System in Sichuan.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Erlang (Li Bing’s son) | 2 |
| Erlang (son of Li Bing) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8903353 — 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: Erlang (son of Li Bing) Context triple: [Dujiangyan Irrigation System, designedBy, Erlang (son of Li Bing)]
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A.
Li Bing
Li Bing was an ancient Chinese engineer and official of the Qin state renowned for creating the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, one of the world’s oldest and most influential water-management projects.
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B.
Pan Yunduan
Pan Yunduan was a Ming dynasty official best known for commissioning and building Shanghai’s famous Yu Garden as a private retreat for his family.
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C.
Ma Liang
Ma Liang was a historical figure from the Three Kingdoms period of China, known primarily as the younger brother of the Shu strategist Ma Su and for his own service under Liu Bei.
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D.
Enlai
Enlai is the given name of Zhou Enlai, the prominent first Premier of the People's Republic of China and a key figure in Chinese Communist history.
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E.
Cai Chang
Cai Chang was a prominent Chinese communist revolutionary and early feminist leader who played a key role in the women’s movement in 20th-century 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: Erlang (son of Li Bing) Target entity description: Erlang (son of Li Bing) was an ancient Chinese engineer and official traditionally credited with helping complete and refine the Dujiangyan Irrigation System in Sichuan.
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A.
Li Bing
Li Bing was an ancient Chinese engineer and official of the Qin state renowned for creating the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, one of the world’s oldest and most influential water-management projects.
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B.
Pan Yunduan
Pan Yunduan was a Ming dynasty official best known for commissioning and building Shanghai’s famous Yu Garden as a private retreat for his family.
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C.
Ma Liang
Ma Liang was a historical figure from the Three Kingdoms period of China, known primarily as the younger brother of the Shu strategist Ma Su and for his own service under Liu Bei.
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D.
Enlai
Enlai is the given name of Zhou Enlai, the prominent first Premier of the People's Republic of China and a key figure in Chinese Communist history.
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E.
Cai Chang
Cai Chang was a prominent Chinese communist revolutionary and early feminist leader who played a key role in the women’s movement in 20th-century China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese official
ⓘ
ancient Chinese engineer ⓘ historical figure ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedLegend | local Sichuan legends about taming the Min River ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Chengdu Plain irrigation
ⓘ
Min River ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
flood control at Dujiangyan
ⓘ
irrigation of the Chengdu Plain ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ancient China ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| describedAs | son of the engineer Li Bing in traditional accounts ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| father | Li Bing ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
hydraulic engineering
ⓘ
irrigation engineering ⓘ water management ⓘ |
| hasPartInLegend | stories of surveying and channel cutting at Dujiangyan ⓘ |
| historicity | partly legendary ⓘ |
| influenced | agricultural development of the Chengdu Plain ⓘ |
| knownFor |
assisting Li Bing in hydraulic works at Dujiangyan
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traditional credit for completing Dujiangyan ⓘ traditional credit for refining Dujiangyan ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Chinese ⓘ |
| legacy | venerated locally as a culture hero of water control ⓘ |
| notableWork | Dujiangyan Irrigation System ⓘ |
| occupation |
engineer
ⓘ
government official ⓘ |
| participantIn |
construction of the Dujiangyan Irrigation System
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refinement of the Dujiangyan Irrigation System ⓘ |
| partOf |
Chinese history of hydraulic engineering
ⓘ
Dujiangyan engineering tradition ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Min River basin
ⓘ
Shu commandery ⓘ
linked to:
Shu Commandery
|
| placeOfWork |
Dujiangyan
ⓘ
linked to:
Dujiangyan Irrigation System
Sichuan ⓘ
linked to:
Sichuan Province
|
| positionHeld | assistant to the governor of Shu commandery ⓘ |
| region |
Sichuan
ⓘ
linked to:
Sichuan Province
|
| relative | Li Bing ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Qin dynasty ⓘ |
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: Erlang (son of Li Bing) Description of subject: Erlang (son of Li Bing) was an ancient Chinese engineer and official traditionally credited with helping complete and refine the Dujiangyan Irrigation System in Sichuan.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Erlang (son of Li Bing)
linked to: Erlang (son of Li Bing)