Zhang Xingcai
E880564
character associated with the Three Kingdoms period
person in Chinese folklore
semi-legendary figure
Zhang Xingcai is a semi-legendary figure from the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history, traditionally depicted in later novels and folklore as the courageous daughter of the Shu general Zhang Fei and sometimes as the wife of Liu Bei’s son Liu Shan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zhang Xingcai canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10002937 — 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: Zhang Xingcai Context triple: [Zhang Fei, child, Zhang Xingcai]
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A.
Guan Qihui
Guan Qihui is a Chinese sculptor best known for designing the iconic Five Rams Statue in Guangzhou.
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B.
Teng Daiyuan
Teng Daiyuan was a prominent Chinese Communist revolutionary and military leader who played a key role in the early development of the People's Liberation Army and the People's Republic of China.
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C.
Zhao Erkang
Zhao Erkang is a fictional character from the popular Chinese television drama "My Fair Princess" (Huan Zhu Ge Ge), known as a loyal and talented imperial guard and romantic lead.
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D.
Liu Bingzhong
Liu Bingzhong was a prominent Yuan dynasty scholar-official, architect, and urban planner best known for helping design the Mongol capital that became Beijing.
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E.
Mao Yichang
Mao Yichang was the father of Mao Zedong and a relatively prosperous peasant farmer in Hunan, China.
- 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: Zhang Xingcai Target entity description: Zhang Xingcai is a semi-legendary figure from the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history, traditionally depicted in later novels and folklore as the courageous daughter of the Shu general Zhang Fei and sometimes as the wife of Liu Bei’s son Liu Shan.
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A.
Guan Qihui
Guan Qihui is a Chinese sculptor best known for designing the iconic Five Rams Statue in Guangzhou.
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B.
Teng Daiyuan
Teng Daiyuan was a prominent Chinese Communist revolutionary and military leader who played a key role in the early development of the People's Liberation Army and the People's Republic of China.
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C.
Zhao Erkang
Zhao Erkang is a fictional character from the popular Chinese television drama "My Fair Princess" (Huan Zhu Ge Ge), known as a loyal and talented imperial guard and romantic lead.
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D.
Liu Bingzhong
Liu Bingzhong was a prominent Yuan dynasty scholar-official, architect, and urban planner best known for helping design the Mongol capital that became Beijing.
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E.
Mao Yichang
Mao Yichang was the father of Mao Zedong and a relatively prosperous peasant farmer in Hunan, China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character associated with the Three Kingdoms period
ⓘ
person in Chinese folklore ⓘ semi-legendary figure ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
later Chinese folklore
ⓘ
later Three Kingdoms-related novels ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Liu Bei
ⓘ
Liu Shan ⓘ Shu Han ⓘ Zhang Fei ⓘ |
| basedOn | historical family of Zhang Fei ⓘ |
| characterTrait | courageous ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Shu Han ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Zhang ⓘ |
| father | Zhang Fei ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | semi-legendary ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Three Kingdoms literary tradition ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreOfDepictions |
historical romance
ⓘ
wuxia-influenced fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Xingcai ⓘ |
| historicity | uncertain ⓘ |
| languageOfDepiction |
Classical Chinese
ⓘ
Literary Chinese ⓘ
linked to:
Classical Chinese
|
| maritalStatusInTradition | empress or consort of Liu Shan ⓘ |
| motherTongue | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being depicted as the courageous daughter of Zhang Fei
ⓘ
being depicted as the wife of Liu Shan in later tradition ⓘ |
| regionOfCulturalOrigin | Sichuan-related Shu culture ⓘ |
| relative |
Liu Shan
ⓘ
Zhang Fei ⓘ |
| roleInTradition |
daughter of a famous general
ⓘ
virtuous and brave wife of a ruler ⓘ |
| spouse | Liu Shan ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Three Kingdoms period ⓘ |
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: Zhang Xingcai Description of subject: Zhang Xingcai is a semi-legendary figure from the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history, traditionally depicted in later novels and folklore as the courageous daughter of the Shu general Zhang Fei and sometimes as the wife of Liu Bei’s son Liu Shan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.