Jiajing Canon
E948547
The Jiajing Canon is a significant Ming dynasty woodblock-printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, commissioned during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jiajing Canon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11826320 — 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: Jiajing Canon Context triple: [Chinese Buddhist Canon, majorEdition, Jiajing Canon]
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Jing
Jing is the posthumous name of Sun Liang, an emperor of Eastern Wu during China’s Three Kingdoms period.
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B.
Jing
Jing is a common Chinese surname shared by various notable figures across fields such as entertainment, sports, and academia.
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C.
Jing
Jing is the painted-face role type in Peking opera, known for its forceful singing, exaggerated facial makeup, and bold, authoritative characters.
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Jianzhong
Jianzhong was a brief imperial era name used during the reign of Emperor Dezong in the Tang dynasty, marking a specific period in his rule.
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Guangjia
Guangjia was a warship of China’s late 19th-century Beiyang Fleet, one of the Qing dynasty’s principal modern naval forces.
- 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: Jiajing Canon Target entity description: The Jiajing Canon is a significant Ming dynasty woodblock-printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, commissioned during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor.
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A.
Jing
Jing is a common Chinese surname shared by various notable figures across fields such as entertainment, sports, and academia.
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B.
Jing
Jing is the painted-face role type in Peking opera, known for its forceful singing, exaggerated facial makeup, and bold, authoritative characters.
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C.
Jing
Jing is the posthumous name of Sun Liang, an emperor of Eastern Wu during China’s Three Kingdoms period.
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D.
Jianzhong
Jianzhong was a brief imperial era name used during the reign of Emperor Dezong in the Tang dynasty, marking a specific period in his rule.
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E.
Guangjia
Guangjia was a warship of China’s late 19th-century Beiyang Fleet, one of the Qing dynasty’s principal modern naval forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese Buddhist canon edition
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Ming dynasty Buddhist text collection ⓘ woodblock-printed canon ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Chinese Buddhism
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imperial patronage of Buddhism ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Jiajing Emperor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | important Ming dynasty Buddhist printing project ⓘ |
| dynasty | Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| follows | earlier Chinese Buddhist canon editions ⓘ |
| genre |
Buddhist scripture
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religious scripture ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Abhidharma texts
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Sutra texts ⓘ Vinaya texts ⓘ commentarial literature ⓘ |
| hasTitleInEnglish | Jiajing Canon ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 16th century ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| medium | paper ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Jiajing Emperor ⓘ |
| partOf | Chinese Buddhist Canon ⓘ |
| printingTechnique | woodblock printing ⓘ |
| productionMethod | carved woodblocks ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| script | Chinese characters ⓘ |
| subject |
Buddhist doctrine
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Buddhist monastic rules ⓘ Buddhist philosophy ⓘ |
| usedFor |
monastic study
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religious practice ⓘ scriptural preservation ⓘ |
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: Jiajing Canon Description of subject: The Jiajing Canon is a significant Ming dynasty woodblock-printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, commissioned during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.