Dasheng (Great Sage)
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Dasheng (Great Sage) is an honorific epithet traditionally associated with great spiritual attainment and wisdom, often used for highly revered Buddhist masters in Chinese religious culture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dasheng (Great Sage) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11770653 — 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: Dasheng (Great Sage) Context triple: [Shenxiu, honorificTitle, Dasheng (Great Sage)]
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A.
Hongren
Hongren was a seminal early patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism in China, renowned for shaping its meditative teachings and transmission.
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B.
Mazu Daoyi
Mazu Daoyi was an influential 8th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) master renowned for his unconventional teaching methods and as a key figure in the development of the Hongzhou school of Chan Buddhism.
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C.
Zhenwu
Zhenwu is a powerful Taoist deity associated with the north, martial protection, and spiritual cultivation, especially revered in Chinese religious and martial traditions.
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D.
Yu the Great
Yu the Great is a legendary Chinese ruler famed for controlling the Great Flood and founding the Xia dynasty, traditionally regarded as China’s first dynasty.
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E.
Tao Zhu Gong
Tao Zhu Gong, also known as Fan Li, was an ancient Chinese strategist and statesman who later became a legendary merchant and is often revered as a patron saint of business and commerce.
- 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: Dasheng (Great Sage) Target entity description: Dasheng (Great Sage) is an honorific epithet traditionally associated with great spiritual attainment and wisdom, often used for highly revered Buddhist masters in Chinese religious culture.
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A.
Hongren
Hongren was a seminal early patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism in China, renowned for shaping its meditative teachings and transmission.
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B.
Mazu Daoyi
Mazu Daoyi was an influential 8th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) master renowned for his unconventional teaching methods and as a key figure in the development of the Hongzhou school of Chan Buddhism.
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C.
Zhenwu
Zhenwu is a powerful Taoist deity associated with the north, martial protection, and spiritual cultivation, especially revered in Chinese religious and martial traditions.
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D.
Yu the Great
Yu the Great is a legendary Chinese ruler famed for controlling the Great Flood and founding the Xia dynasty, traditionally regarded as China’s first dynasty.
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E.
Tao Zhu Gong
Tao Zhu Gong, also known as Fan Li, was an ancient Chinese strategist and statesman who later became a legendary merchant and is often revered as a patron saint of business and commerce.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
honorific epithet
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religious title ⓘ |
| appliedTo | highly revered Buddhist masters ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Buddhism ⓘ |
| connotation |
great spiritual attainment
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wisdom ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Chinese Buddhism
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East Asian Buddhism ⓘ |
| culturalRole |
expression of devotional respect
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marker of spiritual authority ⓘ |
| domain |
religion
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spirituality ⓘ |
| honorificFor |
religious teachers
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spiritually accomplished individuals ⓘ |
| indicates |
high spiritual status
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recognized wisdom ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| region | China ⓘ |
| register | honorific ⓘ |
| script | Chinese characters ⓘ |
| traditionallyAssociatedWith | Buddhist masters ⓘ |
| traditionallyUsedFor | highly respected teachers ⓘ |
| typeOf |
religious honorific
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spiritual title ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Chinese Buddhists
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devotees of Buddhist masters ⓘ |
| usedIn | Chinese religious culture ⓘ |
| valueExpressed |
respect for enlightenment
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reverence ⓘ veneration ⓘ |
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: Dasheng (Great Sage) Description of subject: Dasheng (Great Sage) is an honorific epithet traditionally associated with great spiritual attainment and wisdom, often used for highly revered Buddhist masters in Chinese religious culture.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.