Pei Xiu
E941546
Chinese Buddhist layman
Chinese person
Tang dynasty official
historical figure
lay Buddhist
male person
patron of Buddhism
Pei Xiu was a Tang dynasty official and lay Buddhist known for his patronage of Chan (Zen) masters and his influential role in the spread of Chinese Buddhism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pei Xiu canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11673260 — 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: Pei Xiu Context triple: [Huangbo Xiyun, teacherOf, Pei Xiu]
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A.
Zhu Houxi
Zhu Houxi was a Ming dynasty imperial prince, known primarily as a son of the Hongzhi Emperor of China.
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B.
Zhang Wenshou
Zhang Wenshou was the wife of Cao Kun, a prominent Chinese warlord and president of the Beiyang government in the early Republic of China.
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C.
Zhang Shao
Zhang Shao was a son of the famed Shu Han general Zhang Fei during the late Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms period of China.
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D.
Duan Zhigui
Duan Zhigui was a Chinese warlord and military commander of the early Republican era, associated with the Anhui clique’s political and military activities.
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E.
Shen Yiqin
Shen Yiqin is a Chinese politician who serves as a senior national leader and prominent advocate for women's affairs in 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: Pei Xiu Target entity description: Pei Xiu was a Tang dynasty official and lay Buddhist known for his patronage of Chan (Zen) masters and his influential role in the spread of Chinese Buddhism.
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A.
Zhu Houxi
Zhu Houxi was a Ming dynasty imperial prince, known primarily as a son of the Hongzhi Emperor of China.
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B.
Zhang Wenshou
Zhang Wenshou was the wife of Cao Kun, a prominent Chinese warlord and president of the Beiyang government in the early Republic of China.
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C.
Zhang Shao
Zhang Shao was a son of the famed Shu Han general Zhang Fei during the late Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms period of China.
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D.
Duan Zhigui
Duan Zhigui was a Chinese warlord and military commander of the early Republican era, associated with the Anhui clique’s political and military activities.
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E.
Shen Yiqin
Shen Yiqin is a Chinese politician who serves as a senior national leader and prominent advocate for women's affairs in China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese Buddhist layman
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Chinese person ⓘ Tang dynasty official ⓘ historical figure ⓘ lay Buddhist ⓘ male person ⓘ patron of Buddhism ⓘ |
| activity |
patronage of Buddhist monasteries
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support of Chan teachers ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalSphere | Chinese Buddhism ⓘ |
| dynasty | Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| era |
Tang period
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medieval China ⓘ |
| knownFor |
involvement with Chan (Zen) Buddhism
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lay Buddhist practice ⓘ patronage of Chan masters ⓘ supporting the spread of Chinese Buddhism ⓘ |
| notableContribution |
influential role in the spread of Chinese Buddhism
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promotion of Chan teachings among the laity ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Chan Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousRole | lay supporter of the sangha ⓘ |
| socialRole | elite lay Buddhist patron ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
development of Chan Buddhism in China
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religious life of the Tang dynasty ⓘ |
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: Pei Xiu Description of subject: Pei Xiu was a Tang dynasty official and lay Buddhist known for his patronage of Chan (Zen) masters and his influential role in the spread of Chinese Buddhism.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.