Li Ling
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Li Ling was a Han dynasty military general best known for his ill-fated campaign against the Xiongnu and subsequent controversial surrender that sparked political turmoil in the Han court.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Li Ling canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9918554 — 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: Li Ling Context triple: [Emperor Wu of Han, general, Li Ling]
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A.
Lu Lingzi
Lu Lingzi was a Chinese graduate student at Boston University who was killed in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
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B.
Yao Ling
Yao Ling is known as the former spouse of Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.
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C.
Lu Lingjia
Lu Lingjia is a Chinese individual known primarily as a relative of Lu Lingzi, one of the victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
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D.
Liu Shu
Liu Shu was a Chinese scholar who contributed as an editor to the compilation of the historical chronicle Zizhi Tongjian.
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E.
Liu Qin
Liu Qin was a prince of the Eastern Han dynasty, known primarily as a son of Emperor Guangwu of Han.
- 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: Li Ling Target entity description: Li Ling was a Han dynasty military general best known for his ill-fated campaign against the Xiongnu and subsequent controversial surrender that sparked political turmoil in the Han court.
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A.
Lu Lingzi
Lu Lingzi was a Chinese graduate student at Boston University who was killed in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
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B.
Yao Ling
Yao Ling is known as the former spouse of Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.
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C.
Lu Lingjia
Lu Lingjia is a Chinese individual known primarily as a relative of Lu Lingzi, one of the victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
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D.
Liu Shu
Liu Shu was a Chinese scholar who contributed as an editor to the compilation of the historical chronicle Zizhi Tongjian.
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E.
Liu Qin
Liu Qin was a prince of the Eastern Han dynasty, known primarily as a son of Emperor Guangwu of Han.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Han dynasty general
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military commander ⓘ |
| aftermathOfCampaign | political crisis in the Han court ⓘ |
| allegiance | Han dynasty ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Han court politics
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frontier warfare ⓘ |
| causeOfControversy | surrender during campaign against the Xiongnu ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
Chinese historical tradition
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histories of the Han–Xiongnu conflicts ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | controversial figure in Han military history ⓘ |
| knownFor |
campaign against the Xiongnu
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causing political turmoil in the Han court ⓘ surrender to the Xiongnu ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese (historical records) ⓘ |
| legacy |
example of the risks of frontier campaigns against nomadic powers
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subject of debate over loyalty and pragmatism in Chinese historiography ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableEvent | ill-fated northern campaign against the Xiongnu ⓘ |
| opponent | Xiongnu ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Han–Xiongnu wars
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linked to:
Han–Xiongnu War
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| regionOfActivity | northern frontiers of the Han empire ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Emperor Wu of Han ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity | military affairs ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Western Han dynasty
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linked to:
Western Han period
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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: Li Ling Description of subject: Li Ling was a Han dynasty military general best known for his ill-fated campaign against the Xiongnu and subsequent controversial surrender that sparked political turmoil in the Han court.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.