Houyuan
E830510
Houyuan was an era name used during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han dynasty in ancient China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Houyuan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9918519 — 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: Houyuan Context triple: [Emperor Wu of Han, eraName, Houyuan]
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A.
Houyuan
Houyuan was a historical Chinese era name used during the reign of Emperor Jing of the Western Han dynasty.
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B.
Zhaoyuan
Zhaoyuan is a county-level city in eastern China's Shandong province, known for its rich gold mining industry and economic development.
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C.
Wuyuan
Wuyuan is a historic county in northeastern Jiangxi, China, famed for its well-preserved Huizhou-style architecture and picturesque rural landscapes.
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D.
Yongcheng
Yongcheng was a Qing dynasty imperial prince, known as one of the sons of the Qianlong Emperor of China.
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E.
Huangcun
Huangcun is a town in Beijing, China, that serves as the administrative and commercial center of the city's southern Daxing District.
- 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: Houyuan Target entity description: Houyuan was an era name used during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han dynasty in ancient China.
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A.
Houyuan
Houyuan was a historical Chinese era name used during the reign of Emperor Jing of the Western Han dynasty.
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B.
Zhaoyuan
Zhaoyuan is a county-level city in eastern China's Shandong province, known for its rich gold mining industry and economic development.
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C.
Wuyuan
Wuyuan is a historic county in northeastern Jiangxi, China, famed for its well-preserved Huizhou-style architecture and picturesque rural landscapes.
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D.
Yongcheng
Yongcheng was a Qing dynasty imperial prince, known as one of the sons of the Qianlong Emperor of China.
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E.
Huangcun
Huangcun is a town in Beijing, China, that serves as the administrative and commercial center of the city's southern Daxing District.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese era name
ⓘ
historical period ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Emperor Wu’s late reign ⓘ |
| calendarSystem | Chinese lunisolar calendar ⓘ |
| ChineseCharacters | 後元 ⓘ |
| country |
Western Han dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Han period
|
| dynasty |
Western Han
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Han period
|
| endYear | 87 BC ⓘ |
| endYearInChineseCalendar | the 2nd year of Houyuan (yihai year) ⓘ |
| eraNameOf | Emperor Wu of Han ⓘ |
| eraPositionWithinWesternHan | one of the late Western Han era names ⓘ |
| eraSequenceInReignOfEmperorWu | last era name ⓘ |
| follows | Yuanshou ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Han China
ⓘ
linked to:
China
|
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| precedes | Tianhan ⓘ |
| reignOf | Emperor Wu of Han ⓘ |
| startYear | 88 BC ⓘ |
| startYearInChineseCalendar | the 3rd year of Yuanshou (renyin year) ⓘ |
| timeSpan | 2 years ⓘ |
| transliterationPinyin | Hòuyuán ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Emperor Wu of Han
ⓘ
Emperor Wu of the Western Han dynasty ⓘ
linked to:
Emperor Wu of Han
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| usedIn | ancient China ⓘ |
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: Houyuan Description of subject: Houyuan was an era name used during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han dynasty in ancient China.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.