隨
E780944
隨 is the Chinese character used as the name of the ancient State of Sui and more broadly carries meanings related to following, complying, or going along with something.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 隨 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9144901 — 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: 隨 Context triple: [ancient State of Sui, writtenInChineseCharacters, 隨]
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A.
Shouxin
Shouxin is the given name of Nie Er, the Chinese composer best known for writing the national anthem of the People's Republic of China.
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B.
Yilibu
Yilibu was a Qing dynasty official and diplomat who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Nanking that ended the First Opium War between China and Britain.
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C.
Yikatong
Yikatong is Beijing’s contactless smart card system used for paying fares on public transportation and other city services.
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D.
Sifayuan
Sifayuan is the Mandarin name for Taiwan’s Judicial Yuan, the constitutional body responsible for overseeing the judiciary and interpreting the constitution.
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E.
SY
SY is a UK postcode area covering Shrewsbury and surrounding parts of Shropshire and nearby counties in western England and the Welsh border region.
- 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: 隨 Target entity description: 隨 is the Chinese character used as the name of the ancient State of Sui and more broadly carries meanings related to following, complying, or going along with something.
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A.
Shouxin
Shouxin is the given name of Nie Er, the Chinese composer best known for writing the national anthem of the People's Republic of China.
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B.
Yilibu
Yilibu was a Qing dynasty official and diplomat who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Nanking that ended the First Opium War between China and Britain.
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C.
Yikatong
Yikatong is Beijing’s contactless smart card system used for paying fares on public transportation and other city services.
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D.
Sifayuan
Sifayuan is the Mandarin name for Taiwan’s Judicial Yuan, the constitutional body responsible for overseeing the judiciary and interpreting the constitution.
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E.
SY
SY is a UK postcode area covering Shrewsbury and surrounding parts of Shropshire and nearby counties in western England and the Welsh border region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese character
ⓘ
logogram ⓘ |
| cantoneseReadingJyutping | seoi4 ⓘ |
| cantoneseReadingYale | seui4 ⓘ |
| equivalentInJapaneseKanji | 隨 ⓘ |
| equivalentInKoreanHanja | 隨 ⓘ |
| equivalentInVietnameseChuNom | 隨 ⓘ |
| etymologyNote | originally associated with the ancient State of Sui (隨國) ⓘ |
| hasSimplifiedForm | 随 ⓘ |
| historicalUsage | appears in classical Chinese texts ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| mandarinReadingPinyin | suí ⓘ |
| mandarinTone | 2 ⓘ |
| meaning |
according to
ⓘ
as one pleases ⓘ at random ⓘ to accompany ⓘ to comply ⓘ to follow ⓘ to go along with ⓘ |
| middleChineseReconstruction | zjwij ⓘ |
| oldChineseReconstruction | *[s]lˤuj ⓘ |
| phoneticComponentOf | 隋 ⓘ |
| radical | 阜 ⓘ |
| radicalNumber | 170 ⓘ |
| script | Chinese characters ⓘ |
| semanticField | following and compliance ⓘ |
| strokeCount | 12 (in radical component) + additional strokes ⓘ |
| totalStrokes | 12–13 (depending on writing standard) ⓘ |
| traditionalFormOf | 随 ⓘ |
| unicodeBlock | CJK Unified Ideographs ⓘ |
| unicodeCodePoint | U+96A8 ⓘ |
| usedAsNameOf |
State of Sui
ⓘ
linked to:
ancient State of Sui
|
| usedInRegion |
Hong Kong
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
Macau ⓘ Taiwan ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
overseas Chinese communities ⓘ |
| usedInWord |
隨便
ⓘ
隨口 ⓘ 隨同 ⓘ 隨後 ⓘ 隨從 ⓘ 隨意 ⓘ 隨時 ⓘ 隨機 ⓘ 隨緣 ⓘ 隨著 ⓘ 隨行 ⓘ 隨身 ⓘ |
| writingSystem | traditional Chinese ⓘ |
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: 隨 Description of subject: 隨 is the Chinese character used as the name of the ancient State of Sui and more broadly carries meanings related to following, complying, or going along with something.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.