Yongli Emperor
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The Yongli Emperor was the last ruler of the Southern Ming dynasty, who continued resistance against the Qing conquest until his capture and execution in 1662.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yongli Emperor canonical | 20 |
| Zhu Youlang | 10 |
| Yongli era | 2 |
| Emperor Yongli of Ming | 1 |
| Emperor of the Southern Ming | 1 |
| Ming Yongli Emperor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T582340 — 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: Yongli Emperor Context triple: [Ming Tombs, notBuriedHere, Yongli Emperor]
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A.
Jianwen Emperor
The Jianwen Emperor was the second ruler of China's Ming dynasty, whose short and tumultuous reign ended in a palace coup that left his ultimate fate shrouded in mystery.
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B.
Xuande Emperor
The Xuande Emperor was a 15th-century ruler of China's Ming dynasty, noted for consolidating imperial power and overseeing a flourishing of arts, especially porcelain and painting.
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C.
Chenghua Emperor
The Chenghua Emperor was a Ming dynasty ruler of China who reigned from 1464 to 1487, known for a relatively stable but increasingly corrupt court and for his influential consort, Empress Wan.
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D.
Wanli Emperor
The Wanli Emperor was the thirteenth emperor of China’s Ming dynasty, whose long reign from 1572 to 1620 was marked by early effective governance followed by prolonged withdrawal from state affairs and mounting internal decline.
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E.
Jiajing Emperor
The Jiajing Emperor was a 16th-century ruler of China's Ming dynasty known for his long reign, Taoist devotions, and periods of political corruption and court intrigue.
- 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: Yongli Emperor Target entity description: The Yongli Emperor was the last ruler of the Southern Ming dynasty, who continued resistance against the Qing conquest until his capture and execution in 1662.
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A.
Jianwen Emperor
The Jianwen Emperor was the second ruler of China's Ming dynasty, whose short and tumultuous reign ended in a palace coup that left his ultimate fate shrouded in mystery.
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B.
Xuande Emperor
The Xuande Emperor was a 15th-century ruler of China's Ming dynasty, noted for consolidating imperial power and overseeing a flourishing of arts, especially porcelain and painting.
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C.
Chenghua Emperor
The Chenghua Emperor was a Ming dynasty ruler of China who reigned from 1464 to 1487, known for a relatively stable but increasingly corrupt court and for his influential consort, Empress Wan.
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D.
Wanli Emperor
The Wanli Emperor was the thirteenth emperor of China’s Ming dynasty, whose long reign from 1572 to 1620 was marked by early effective governance followed by prolonged withdrawal from state affairs and mounting internal decline.
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E.
Jiajing Emperor
The Jiajing Emperor was a 16th-century ruler of China's Ming dynasty known for his long reign, Taoist devotions, and periods of political corruption and court intrigue.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese monarch
ⓘ
Southern Ming emperor ⓘ emperor ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Emperor Yongli of Ming
ⓘ
linked to:
Yongli Emperor
Ming Yongli Emperor ⓘ
linked to:
Yongli Emperor
|
| associatedWithEvent | fall of the Ming loyalist regimes ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1623 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Ming China
ⓘ
linked to:
Ming dynasty
|
| capturedBy |
Qing forces
ⓘ
linked to:
Qing army
Wu Sangui ⓘ |
| countryRuled | Southern Ming ⓘ |
| deathCause | execution by the Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1662 ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1662 ⓘ |
| dynasty | Southern Ming ⓘ |
| era |
Yongli era
ⓘ
linked to:
Yongli Emperor
|
| eraNameStart | Yongli 1 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| executionMethod | strangulation ⓘ |
| familyName | Zhu ⓘ |
| father | Zhu Changying ⓘ |
| fatherTitle | Prince of Gui ⓘ |
| givenName | Youlang ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | late Ming–early Qing period ⓘ |
| house |
House of Zhu
ⓘ
linked to:
Ming dynasty
|
| lastRulerOf |
Southern Ming dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Ming
|
| mannerOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the last emperor of the Southern Ming dynasty
ⓘ
leading resistance against the Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| opponent |
Kangxi Emperor
ⓘ
linked to:
Kangxi
Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| personalName |
Zhu Youlang
ⓘ
linked to:
Yongli Emperor
|
| placeOfCapture |
Burma
ⓘ
linked to:
Myanmar
|
| placeOfDeath |
Kunming
ⓘ
linked to:
Kunming, China
|
| posthumousName | Emperor Shaotian ⓘ |
| predecessor | Longwu Emperor ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1662 ⓘ |
| reignName | Yongli ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1646 ⓘ |
| religion | Confucianism ⓘ |
| resisted |
Qing conquest of China
ⓘ
linked to:
Manchu invasions
|
| royalHouse |
Ming dynasty imperial clan
ⓘ
linked to:
Ming dynasty
|
| soughtRefugeIn |
Burma
ⓘ
linked to:
Myanmar
|
| spouse |
Empress Ma
ⓘ
Empress Wang ⓘ |
| successor | none ⓘ |
| templeName |
Zhaozong
ⓘ
linked to:
Emperor Xizong of Tang
|
| title |
Emperor of the Southern Ming
ⓘ
linked to:
Yongli Emperor
Prince of Gui ⓘ |
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: Yongli Emperor Description of subject: The Yongli Emperor was the last ruler of the Southern Ming dynasty, who continued resistance against the Qing conquest until his capture and execution in 1662.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Yongli Emperor
linked to: Yongli Emperor
linked to: Yongli Emperor
linked to: Yongli Emperor
linked to: Yongli Emperor
linked to: Yongli Emperor
subject linked to:
Emperor Shaotian
linked to: Yongli Emperor
subject linked to:
Emperor Shaotian
linked to: Yongli Emperor
subject linked to:
Zhu Changying