Yunmen Monastery
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Yunmen Monastery is a historic Chan (Zen) Buddhist temple in China renowned as the seat of the influential Yunmen school founded by the master Yunmen Wenyan.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yunmen Monastery canonical | 2 |
| East Mountain Monastery | 1 |
| monastery of the Fifth Patriarch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11673140 — 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: Yunmen Monastery Context triple: [Yunmen Wenyan, abbotOf, Yunmen Monastery]
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A.
Linji Monastery
Linji Monastery is a prominent Chan (Zen) Buddhist temple in China renowned as the principal monastery of the influential Tang-dynasty master Linji Yixuan and the cradle of the Rinzai (Linji) school.
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B.
Songzanlin Monastery
Songzanlin Monastery is a large 17th-century Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Shangri-La in Yunnan, China, renowned for its fortress-like architecture and cultural significance as the region’s most important lamasery.
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C.
Nanhua Temple
Nanhua Temple is a historic Buddhist monastery in Guangdong, China, best known as the home and memorial site of the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, Huineng.
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D.
Chuang Yen Monastery
Chuang Yen Monastery is a major Buddhist temple complex in Putnam County, New York, known for housing one of the largest indoor Buddha statues in the Western Hemisphere.
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Hanshan Temple
Hanshan Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Suzhou, China, renowned for its ancient bell, classical Chinese architecture, and prominence in traditional poetry.
- 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: Yunmen Monastery Target entity description: Yunmen Monastery is a historic Chan (Zen) Buddhist temple in China renowned as the seat of the influential Yunmen school founded by the master Yunmen Wenyan.
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A.
Linji Monastery
Linji Monastery is a prominent Chan (Zen) Buddhist temple in China renowned as the principal monastery of the influential Tang-dynasty master Linji Yixuan and the cradle of the Rinzai (Linji) school.
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B.
Songzanlin Monastery
Songzanlin Monastery is a large 17th-century Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Shangri-La in Yunnan, China, renowned for its fortress-like architecture and cultural significance as the region’s most important lamasery.
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C.
Nanhua Temple
Nanhua Temple is a historic Buddhist monastery in Guangdong, China, best known as the home and memorial site of the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, Huineng.
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D.
Chuang Yen Monastery
Chuang Yen Monastery is a major Buddhist temple complex in Putnam County, New York, known for housing one of the largest indoor Buddha statues in the Western Hemisphere.
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E.
Hanshan Temple
Hanshan Temple is a historic Buddhist temple in Suzhou, China, renowned for its ancient bell, classical Chinese architecture, and prominence in traditional poetry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist temple
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Chan Buddhist temple ⓘ Zen temple ⓘ monastery ⓘ |
| architectureStyle | traditional Chinese temple architecture ⓘ |
| associatedSchool | Yunmen school ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Yunmen lineage
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Zen koan tradition ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Chinese Buddhist monastic system ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Buddha ⓘ |
| era | Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Yunmen Wenyan ⓘ |
| foundedInCentury | 10th century ⓘ |
| function |
monastic residence
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place of Buddhist worship ⓘ site of meditation practice ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | important site in Chinese Buddhist history ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfLiturgy | Chinese ⓘ |
| hasLegacy |
Yunmen school of Chan
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recorded sayings of Yunmen Wenyan ⓘ |
| hasReligiousOrder | Chan monks ⓘ |
| hasTourism |
Buddhist pilgrims
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cultural tourists ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic temple ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
center of Chan Buddhist practice
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seat of the Yunmen school ⓘ |
| influenced |
Yunmen school teachings
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linked to:
Yunmen school
development of Chan Buddhism ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Guangdong Province
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Yunfu ⓘ Yunmen Mountain ⓘ |
| mainTradition | Chan Buddhism ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Yunmen Mountain ⓘ |
| notableFor |
brief and enigmatic Chan teachings
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role in classical Zen literature ⓘ |
| notableMonk | Yunmen Wenyan ⓘ |
| region |
Southern China
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linked to:
southern China
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| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| spiritualFocus |
Chan enlightenment teachings
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koan practice ⓘ meditation ⓘ |
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: Yunmen Monastery Description of subject: Yunmen Monastery is a historic Chan (Zen) Buddhist temple in China renowned as the seat of the influential Yunmen school founded by the master Yunmen Wenyan.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yunmen Monastery
linked to: Yunmen Monastery