Yang Yi
E940293
Yang Yi was a Chinese scholar-official and editor known for his work on the Buddhist historical text "Records of the Transmission of the Lamp."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yang Yi canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11673568 — 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: Yang Yi Context triple: [Records of the Transmission of the Lamp, editor, Yang Yi]
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A.
Yuan Weishi
Yuan Weishi is a Chinese historian and public intellectual known for his critical examinations of modern Chinese history and education.
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B.
Li Kuan
Li Kuan was a Tang dynasty imperial prince, known primarily as a son of Emperor Xianzong of Tang.
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C.
Yuan Haowen
Yuan Haowen was a prominent poet and literary figure of the late Jin and early Yuan dynasties in China, known for his ci and shi poetry as well as his prose.
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D.
Lu You
Lu You was a prominent Southern Song dynasty poet renowned for his patriotic verse and prolific literary output.
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E.
Gao Shi
Gao Shi was a prominent poet of China’s High Tang period, celebrated for his vivid frontier-themed verse and reflections on military life and hardship.
- 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: Yang Yi Target entity description: Yang Yi was a Chinese scholar-official and editor known for his work on the Buddhist historical text "Records of the Transmission of the Lamp."
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A.
Yuan Weishi
Yuan Weishi is a Chinese historian and public intellectual known for his critical examinations of modern Chinese history and education.
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B.
Li Kuan
Li Kuan was a Tang dynasty imperial prince, known primarily as a son of Emperor Xianzong of Tang.
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C.
Yuan Haowen
Yuan Haowen was a prominent poet and literary figure of the late Jin and early Yuan dynasties in China, known for his ci and shi poetry as well as his prose.
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D.
Lu You
Lu You was a prominent Southern Song dynasty poet renowned for his patriotic verse and prolific literary output.
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E.
Gao Shi
Gao Shi was a prominent poet of China’s High Tang period, celebrated for his vivid frontier-themed verse and reflections on military life and hardship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist historical text
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Chinese scholar-official ⓘ editor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Buddhist studies
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Chinese historiography ⓘ |
| genre | Buddhist historical text ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Chan Buddhism ⓘ |
| notableWork | Records of the Transmission of the Lamp ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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scholar-official ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
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: Yang Yi Description of subject: Yang Yi was a Chinese scholar-official and editor known for his work on the Buddhist historical text "Records of the Transmission of the Lamp."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.