Daoyuan
E944101
Daoyuan was a Chinese Buddhist monk and historian best known for compiling the influential Chan (Zen) lineage text "Records of the Transmission of the Lamp."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Daoyuan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11673567 — 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: Daoyuan Context triple: [Records of the Transmission of the Lamp, compiler, Daoyuan]
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A.
Xushui River
The Xushui River is a regional river associated with the city of Chenzhou in southern China, contributing to its local water system and landscape.
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B.
Xin’an River
The Xin’an River is a major river in eastern China known for its scenic landscapes and as an important tributary contributing to the Qiantang River system.
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C.
Xié River
The Xié River is a waterway in the northwest Amazon region of Brazil, known for being home to Indigenous communities such as the Warekena people.
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D.
Songhuajiang
Songhuajiang is the pinyin romanized name of the Songhua River, a major river in northeastern China that flows through Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces.
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E.
Huai River
The Huai River is a major river in eastern China that historically served as a key geographical and cultural boundary between northern and southern 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: Daoyuan Target entity description: Daoyuan was a Chinese Buddhist monk and historian best known for compiling the influential Chan (Zen) lineage text "Records of the Transmission of the Lamp."
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A.
Xushui River
The Xushui River is a regional river associated with the city of Chenzhou in southern China, contributing to its local water system and landscape.
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B.
Xin’an River
The Xin’an River is a major river in eastern China known for its scenic landscapes and as an important tributary contributing to the Qiantang River system.
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C.
Xié River
The Xié River is a waterway in the northwest Amazon region of Brazil, known for being home to Indigenous communities such as the Warekena people.
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D.
Songhuajiang
Songhuajiang is the pinyin romanized name of the Songhua River, a major river in northeastern China that flows through Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces.
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E.
Huai River
The Huai River is a major river in eastern China that historically served as a key geographical and cultural boundary between northern and southern China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist monk
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Chan Buddhist ⓘ Chinese person ⓘ historian ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Buddhist historiography
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Chan Buddhism ⓘ religious history ⓘ |
| genre |
Buddhist biography
ⓘ
religious history ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | important figure in the textual formation of Chan identity ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | codification of Chan lineage narratives ⓘ |
| influenced |
Song-dynasty Chan historiography
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Zen lineage traditions in East Asia ⓘ later Chan lineage records ⓘ |
| knownFor |
compiling Records of the Transmission of the Lamp
ⓘ
systematizing Chan patriarchal lineages ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| movement | Chan Buddhism ⓘ |
| notability | compiler of an influential Chan lineage text ⓘ |
| notableWork | Records of the Transmission of the Lamp ⓘ |
| occupation |
Buddhist monk
ⓘ
historian ⓘ religious writer ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Chan Buddhism ⓘ |
| workFocusesOn |
Chan patriarchs
ⓘ
linked to:
Chan monks
biographies of Chan masters ⓘ transmission of the Dharma ⓘ |
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: Daoyuan Description of subject: Daoyuan was a Chinese Buddhist monk and historian best known for compiling the influential Chan (Zen) lineage 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.