King Yan
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King Yan is a deity in Chinese mythology who presides over the underworld and judges the souls of the dead.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King Yan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9119465 — 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: King Yan Context triple: [Yanluo Wang, title, King Yan]
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A.
King of Anshan
King of Anshan was an early royal title held by Cyrus the Great as ruler of the ancient Elamite region of Anshan in southwestern Iran, preceding his founding of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
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B.
King You of Zhou
King You of Zhou was the last king of the Western Zhou dynasty, infamous for his misrule and the events that led to the dynasty’s collapse.
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C.
King You of Chu
King You of Chu was a monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Chu who ruled during the late Warring States period.
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D.
Kummuh
Kummuh was an Iron Age Neo-Hittite kingdom located in southeastern Anatolia, known from Assyrian records as a regional political and cultural center.
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E.
King Kaolie of Chu
King Kaolie of Chu was a monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the late Warring States period, known for ruling in a time of intense interstate conflict before the Qin unification.
- 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: King Yan Target entity description: King Yan is a deity in Chinese mythology who presides over the underworld and judges the souls of the dead.
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A.
King of Anshan
King of Anshan was an early royal title held by Cyrus the Great as ruler of the ancient Elamite region of Anshan in southwestern Iran, preceding his founding of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
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B.
King You of Zhou
King You of Zhou was the last king of the Western Zhou dynasty, infamous for his misrule and the events that led to the dynasty’s collapse.
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C.
King You of Chu
King You of Chu was a monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Chu who ruled during the late Warring States period.
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D.
Kummuh
Kummuh was an Iron Age Neo-Hittite kingdom located in southeastern Anatolia, known from Assyrian records as a regional political and cultural center.
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E.
King Kaolie of Chu
King Kaolie of Chu was a monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the late Warring States period, known for ruling in a time of intense interstate conflict before the Qin unification.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
deity
ⓘ
underworld deity ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Chinese ghost stories
ⓘ
Chinese religious dramas ⓘ Chinese underworld legends ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
hell
ⓘ
judgment ⓘ justice ⓘ retribution ⓘ underworld courts ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese mythology ⓘ |
| domain | afterlife ⓘ |
| function |
assigns punishments to the wicked
ⓘ
determines fate of souls ⓘ judges souls of the dead ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| governs |
demons of the underworld
ⓘ
spirits of the dead ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
authoritative
ⓘ
impartial ⓘ strict ⓘ |
| hasPlaceOfResidence |
courts of the underworld
ⓘ
underworld palace ⓘ |
| hasPower |
to condemn souls to punishment
ⓘ
to release souls to better rebirths ⓘ |
| mythologicalRole | enforcer of moral order after death ⓘ |
| oversees |
distribution of karmic rewards and punishments
ⓘ
judgment of human souls ⓘ |
| presidesOver | underworld ⓘ |
| receives | souls after death for judgment ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
afterlife judgment
ⓘ
karma ⓘ reincarnation ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Chinese folk belief
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Daoist belief ⓘ |
| role |
judge of the dead
ⓘ
ruler of the underworld ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
cosmic justice
ⓘ
moral retribution ⓘ |
| title |
Judge of the Dead
ⓘ
King of Hell ⓘ Lord of the Underworld ⓘ |
| typeOfMythologicalFigure | chthonic deity ⓘ |
| worshippedIn |
China
ⓘ
Chinese folk religion ⓘ Taoism ⓘ |
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: King Yan Description of subject: King Yan is a deity in Chinese mythology who presides over the underworld and judges the souls of the dead.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.