Yuan Longping
E811092
Yuan Longping was a pioneering Chinese agronomist known as the “Father of Hybrid Rice” for developing high-yield rice varieties that greatly enhanced global food security.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yuan Longping canonical | 5 |
| Father of Hybrid Rice | 1 |
| “Father of Hybrid Rice” | 1 |
| 袁隆平 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9614587 — 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: Yuan Longping Context triple: [Yuan, hasNotableBearer, Yuan Longping]
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A.
Norman Borlaug
Norman Borlaug was an American agronomist and humanitarian known as the “father of the Green Revolution” for developing high-yield, disease-resistant crops that helped dramatically reduce global hunger.
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B.
Liu Songlin
Liu Songlin was the wife of Mao Anqing, the second son of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong.
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C.
Tu Youyou
Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the antimalarial drug artemisinin, which has saved millions of lives worldwide.
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D.
Tsien Hsue-shen
Tsien Hsue-shen was a pioneering Chinese aerospace engineer and rocket scientist who played a foundational role in both early American rocketry and the development of China’s missile and space programs.
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E.
L. C. Pei
L. C. Pei is a Chinese-American architect best known for designing the iconic Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong.
- 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: Yuan Longping Target entity description: Yuan Longping was a pioneering Chinese agronomist known as the “Father of Hybrid Rice” for developing high-yield rice varieties that greatly enhanced global food security.
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A.
Norman Borlaug
Norman Borlaug was an American agronomist and humanitarian known as the “father of the Green Revolution” for developing high-yield, disease-resistant crops that helped dramatically reduce global hunger.
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B.
Liu Songlin
Liu Songlin was the wife of Mao Anqing, the second son of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong.
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C.
Tu Youyou
Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the antimalarial drug artemisinin, which has saved millions of lives worldwide.
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D.
Tsien Hsue-shen
Tsien Hsue-shen was a pioneering Chinese aerospace engineer and rocket scientist who played a foundational role in both early American rocketry and the development of China’s missile and space programs.
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E.
L. C. Pei
L. C. Pei is a Chinese-American architect best known for designing the iconic Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese scientist
ⓘ
human ⓘ plant breeder ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | agricultural science ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize
ⓘ
linked to:
Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize
Medal of the Republic (China) ⓘ
linked to:
Medal of the Republic
National Science Congress Award (China) ⓘ
linked to:
National Science Conference Award (China)
State Preeminent Science and Technology Award ⓘ Wolf Prize in Agriculture ⓘ
linked to:
Wolf Prize
World Food Prize ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Changsha ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness-related complications ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1930-09-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-05-22 ⓘ |
| developed |
first high-yield hybrid rice varieties
ⓘ
super hybrid rice varieties ⓘ three-line hybrid rice system ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Southwest Agricultural College
ⓘ
linked to:
Southwest University
Southwest University (China) ⓘ
linked to:
Southwest Agricultural University
|
| employer | Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
agronomy
ⓘ
hybrid rice research ⓘ rice breeding ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle |
“Father of Hybrid Rice”
ⓘ
linked to:
Yuan Longping
|
| impact | helped alleviate hunger for hundreds of millions of people ⓘ |
| influenced |
global food security policies
ⓘ
rice production in Asia ⓘ rice production in China ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Chinese ⓘ |
| memberOf | Chinese Academy of Engineering ⓘ |
| name | Yuan Longping ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| nativeName |
袁隆平
ⓘ
linked to:
Yuan Longping
|
| nickname |
Father of Hybrid Rice
ⓘ
linked to:
Yuan Longping
|
| notableFor |
contributions to global food security
ⓘ
development of hybrid rice ⓘ increasing rice yields ⓘ |
| occupation |
agronomist
ⓘ
educator ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Beijing ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Changsha ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chief scientist at Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center
ⓘ
director of China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center ⓘ |
| residence | Hunan Province ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Changsha
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Hunan Province ⓘ |
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: Yuan Longping Description of subject: Yuan Longping was a pioneering Chinese agronomist known as the “Father of Hybrid Rice” for developing high-yield rice varieties that greatly enhanced global food security.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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