美
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美 is a common Chinese character meaning "beauty" or "beautiful," frequently used in given names and cultural expressions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 美 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10814719 — 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: 美 Context triple: [尚美, nameElement, 美]
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A.
Xi Shi
Xi Shi is one of the legendary Four Beauties of ancient China, famed for her extraordinary beauty and prominent role in Chinese folklore and history.
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B.
Rénmínbì
Rénmínbì is the standard pinyin romanization of the Chinese name for the official currency of the People's Republic of China, commonly known in English as the renminbi or yuan.
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C.
Yang Guifei
Yang Guifei was a famed imperial consort of China's Tang dynasty, celebrated for her beauty and romanticized in literature and art, whose relationship with Emperor Xuanzong became emblematic of both opulence and political downfall.
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D.
MEEI
MEEI is a renowned specialty hospital in Boston focused on ophthalmology and otolaryngology, affiliated with Harvard Medical School.
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E.
Peifu
Peifu is the given name of Wu Peifu, a prominent early 20th-century Chinese warlord and military leader of the Beiyang government era.
- 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: 美 Target entity description: 美 is a common Chinese character meaning "beauty" or "beautiful," frequently used in given names and cultural expressions.
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A.
Xi Shi
Xi Shi is one of the legendary Four Beauties of ancient China, famed for her extraordinary beauty and prominent role in Chinese folklore and history.
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B.
Rénmínbì
Rénmínbì is the standard pinyin romanization of the Chinese name for the official currency of the People's Republic of China, commonly known in English as the renminbi or yuan.
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C.
Yang Guifei
Yang Guifei was a famed imperial consort of China's Tang dynasty, celebrated for her beauty and romanticized in literature and art, whose relationship with Emperor Xuanzong became emblematic of both opulence and political downfall.
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D.
MEEI
MEEI is a renowned specialty hospital in Boston focused on ophthalmology and otolaryngology, affiliated with Harvard Medical School.
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E.
Peifu
Peifu is the given name of Wu Peifu, a prominent early 20th-century Chinese warlord and military leader of the Beiyang government era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese character
ⓘ
Han character ⓘ logogram ⓘ |
| abbreviationContext | Chinese ⓘ |
| appearsInWord |
美丽
ⓘ
美国 ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
美好 ⓘ 美学 ⓘ 美容 ⓘ 美术 ⓘ |
| block | CJK Unified Ideographs ⓘ |
| bopomofo | ㄇㄟˇ ⓘ |
| cangjie | HQI ⓘ |
| cantoneseReading | mei5 ⓘ |
| etymology | originally depicted a person adorned with a headdress of a sheep, symbolizing beauty or greatness ⓘ |
| fourCornerCode | 80601 ⓘ |
| frequency | common character in modern Chinese ⓘ |
| japaneseKunReading | うつく-しい ⓘ |
| japaneseOnReading | ビ ⓘ |
| koreanReading | 미 ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| mandarinReading | měi ⓘ |
| meaning |
beautiful
ⓘ
beauty ⓘ fine ⓘ pretty ⓘ |
| phoneticComponent | 大 ⓘ |
| pinyin | měi ⓘ |
| radical | 羊 ⓘ |
| radicalNumber | 123 ⓘ |
| script | Han script ⓘ |
| semanticComponent | 羊 ⓘ |
| semanticField |
aesthetics
ⓘ
positive qualities ⓘ |
| simplifiedForm | 美 ⓘ |
| strokeCount | 9 ⓘ |
| traditionalForm | 美 ⓘ |
| unicodeCodePoint | U+7F8E ⓘ |
| usedAsAbbreviationFor | United States of America ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Chinese personal names
ⓘ
Japanese personal names ⓘ Korean personal names ⓘ female given names ⓘ given names ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Hong Kong
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
Japan ⓘ Korea ⓘ Mainland China ⓘ
linked to:
People’s Republic of China
Taiwan ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
|
| vietnameseReading | mĩ ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Chinese writing system ⓘ |
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: 美 Description of subject: 美 is a common Chinese character meaning "beauty" or "beautiful," frequently used in given names and cultural expressions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
still beauty (尚美)