yang qin
E942218
Yang qin is a Chinese hammered dulcimer, a trapezoidal stringed musical instrument played by striking the strings with lightweight bamboo mallets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| yang qin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11732183 — 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 qin Context triple: [yangqin, hasAlternativeTransliteration, yang qin]
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Ye Qun
Ye Qun was a prominent Chinese Communist political figure and military officer, best known for her influential role in party affairs during the Cultural Revolution and her involvement in the events surrounding the Lin Biao incident.
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B.
Yangqing Jia
Yangqing Jia is a computer scientist and software engineer known for his influential work in deep learning and computer vision, including contributions to convolutional neural network architectures and open-source frameworks.
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C.
Yu Qingfang
Yu Qingfang was a key revolutionary leader associated with the Tapani Incident, an anti-Japanese uprising in early 20th-century Taiwan.
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D.
Yang Quyun
Yang Quyun was a late Qing dynasty Chinese revolutionary and early nationalist leader who helped lay the groundwork for the movement that eventually overthrew imperial rule.
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E.
Yang Sun
Yang Sun is an opportunistic, morally ambiguous pilot whose relationship with the protagonist Shen Te highlights themes of selfishness and survival in Bertolt Brecht’s play "The Good Person of Szechwan."
- 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 qin Target entity description: Yang qin is a Chinese hammered dulcimer, a trapezoidal stringed musical instrument played by striking the strings with lightweight bamboo mallets.
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A.
Ye Qun
Ye Qun was a prominent Chinese Communist political figure and military officer, best known for her influential role in party affairs during the Cultural Revolution and her involvement in the events surrounding the Lin Biao incident.
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B.
Yangqing Jia
Yangqing Jia is a computer scientist and software engineer known for his influential work in deep learning and computer vision, including contributions to convolutional neural network architectures and open-source frameworks.
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C.
Yu Qingfang
Yu Qingfang was a key revolutionary leader associated with the Tapani Incident, an anti-Japanese uprising in early 20th-century Taiwan.
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D.
Yang Quyun
Yang Quyun was a late Qing dynasty Chinese revolutionary and early nationalist leader who helped lay the groundwork for the movement that eventually overthrew imperial rule.
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E.
Yang Sun
Yang Sun is an opportunistic, morally ambiguous pilot whose relationship with the protagonist Shen Te highlights themes of selfishness and survival in Bertolt Brecht’s play "The Good Person of Szechwan."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hammered dulcimer
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musical instrument ⓘ string instrument ⓘ |
| classification | chordophone ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin |
Han Chinese culture
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linked to:
Han culture
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| etymology | Chinese term sometimes translated as "foreign zither" ⓘ |
| family | dulcimer family ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
bridges
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decorative inlay ⓘ soundboard ⓘ strings ⓘ tuning pins ⓘ |
| hasShape | trapezoidal ⓘ |
| hasStrings | yes ⓘ |
| historicalInfluence | influenced by Persian santur ⓘ |
| malletType | lightweight bamboo mallets ⓘ |
| materialOfMallets | bamboo ⓘ |
| notation |
jianpu numbered musical notation
ⓘ
staff notation (modern scores) ⓘ |
| performanceContext |
folk festivals
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stage performance ⓘ tea houses and local ensembles ⓘ |
| performanceTechnique |
damping strings with hands
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glissando ⓘ rolling tremolo ⓘ striking strings ⓘ |
| playedWith | a pair of bamboo beaters ⓘ |
| playingTechnique | struck with mallets ⓘ |
| region | East Asia ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
cimbalom
ⓘ
hammered dulcimer ⓘ
linked to:
Chinese hammered dulcimer
santur ⓘ
linked to:
Persian santur
|
| soundCharacter |
bright tone
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clear attack ⓘ sustained resonance ⓘ |
| soundProduction | vibrating strings ⓘ |
| transportability | portable instrument ⓘ |
| tuningSystem |
chromatic tuning (modern forms)
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diatonic tuning (older forms) ⓘ |
| typicalRole |
accompaniment instrument
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melodic instrument ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ensemble performance
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solo performance ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Chinese folk music
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Chinese opera accompaniment ⓘ Chinese orchestra ⓘ Chinese traditional music ⓘ contemporary Chinese popular music arrangements ⓘ |
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 qin Description of subject: Yang qin is a Chinese hammered dulcimer, a trapezoidal stringed musical instrument played by striking the strings with lightweight bamboo mallets.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.