Yuanshi
E830509
Yuanshi was a Chinese imperial era name used during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yuanshi canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9918514 — 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: Yuanshi Context triple: [Emperor Wu of Han, eraName, Yuanshi]
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A.
Yuanshuo
Yuanshuo was a regnal era during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han dynasty in ancient China.
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B.
Yuanfu
Yuanfu was the courtesy name of Lin Zexu, the prominent Qing dynasty official known for his role in suppressing the opium trade and helping trigger the First Opium War.
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C.
Yuanhe
Yuanhe was the era name used during the reign of Emperor Xianzong in the Tang dynasty, marking a specific period in Chinese imperial history.
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D.
Shizhen
Shizhen is the given name of Li Shizhen, the renowned Ming dynasty physician and naturalist best known for compiling the monumental Chinese medical text "Compendium of Materia Medica."
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E.
Yuanzhen
Yuanzhen was the Chinese era name used during the reign of Temür Khan, the second emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
- 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: Yuanshi Target entity description: Yuanshi was a Chinese imperial era name used during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty.
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A.
Yuanshuo
Yuanshuo was a regnal era during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han dynasty in ancient China.
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B.
Yuanfu
Yuanfu was the courtesy name of Lin Zexu, the prominent Qing dynasty official known for his role in suppressing the opium trade and helping trigger the First Opium War.
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C.
Yuanhe
Yuanhe was the era name used during the reign of Emperor Xianzong in the Tang dynasty, marking a specific period in Chinese imperial history.
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D.
Shizhen
Shizhen is the given name of Li Shizhen, the renowned Ming dynasty physician and naturalist best known for compiling the monumental Chinese medical text "Compendium of Materia Medica."
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E.
Yuanzhen
Yuanzhen was the Chinese era name used during the reign of Temür Khan, the second emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese imperial era name
ⓘ
era name ⓘ |
| associatedWithEmperor | Emperor Wu of Han ⓘ |
| calendar | Chinese calendar ⓘ |
| ChineseName |
元始
ⓘ
linked to:
Yuanshi Tianzun
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| country | China ⓘ |
| dynasty | Han dynasty ⓘ |
| endYear | 1 BC ⓘ |
| follows | Yuanding ⓘ |
| hasEraName | Yuanshi ⓘ |
| precedes | Shenjue ⓘ |
| startYear | 2 BC ⓘ |
| usedBy | Emperor Wu of Han ⓘ |
| usedEraName | Yuanshi ⓘ |
| usedFor | reign of Emperor Wu of Han ⓘ |
| usedIn | Han 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: Yuanshi Description of subject: Yuanshi was a Chinese imperial era name used during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.