Yongle Northern Canon
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The Yongle Northern Canon is a significant early Ming dynasty printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon, commissioned under the Yongle Emperor and notable for its historical and textual influence on East Asian Buddhism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yongle Canon (Buddhist edition, conceptually as imperial canon project) | 1 |
| Yongle Northern Canon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11826319 — 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: Yongle Northern Canon Context triple: [Chinese Buddhist Canon, majorEdition, Yongle Northern Canon]
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A.
Yongle Southern Canon
The Yongle Southern Canon is an early Ming dynasty woodblock-printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon, commissioned under the Yongle Emperor and notable for its historical and textual significance.
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B.
Yongle Encyclopedia
The Yongle Encyclopedia is a vast 15th-century Chinese imperial compendium that sought to collect and preserve the entirety of known knowledge, literature, and scholarship of its time.
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C.
Forbidden City
The Forbidden City is a vast imperial palace complex in central Beijing that served as the political and ceremonial heart of Chinese dynasties for nearly 500 years and is now a major cultural and historical museum.
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D.
Palace of Earthly Tranquility
The Palace of Earthly Tranquility is a historic hall within Beijing’s Forbidden City that served as the residence and later ceremonial space of Chinese empresses during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
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E.
Lishan Didan
Lishan Didan is a Jewish Neo-Aramaic language traditionally spoken by Kurdish and Azerbaijani Jews from the regions of northwestern Iran and eastern Turkey.
- 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: Yongle Northern Canon Target entity description: The Yongle Northern Canon is a significant early Ming dynasty printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon, commissioned under the Yongle Emperor and notable for its historical and textual influence on East Asian Buddhism.
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A.
Yongle Southern Canon
The Yongle Southern Canon is an early Ming dynasty woodblock-printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon, commissioned under the Yongle Emperor and notable for its historical and textual significance.
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B.
Yongle Encyclopedia
The Yongle Encyclopedia is a vast 15th-century Chinese imperial compendium that sought to collect and preserve the entirety of known knowledge, literature, and scholarship of its time.
-
C.
Forbidden City
The Forbidden City is a vast imperial palace complex in central Beijing that served as the political and ceremonial heart of Chinese dynasties for nearly 500 years and is now a major cultural and historical museum.
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D.
Palace of Earthly Tranquility
The Palace of Earthly Tranquility is a historic hall within Beijing’s Forbidden City that served as the residence and later ceremonial space of Chinese empresses during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
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E.
Lishan Didan
Lishan Didan is a Jewish Neo-Aramaic language traditionally spoken by Kurdish and Azerbaijani Jews from the regions of northwestern Iran and eastern Turkey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist scripture collection
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Chinese Buddhist canon edition ⓘ Ming dynasty woodblock print edition ⓘ |
| associatedWith | imperial Buddhist projects of the Yongle reign ⓘ |
| circulation | distributed to major monasteries ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Yongle Emperor ⓘ |
| compiledInDynasty | Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| contains |
abhidharma texts
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commentaries ⓘ ritual texts ⓘ sūtras ⓘ vinaya texts ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Chinese imperial Buddhism ⓘ |
| dateOfProduction | early 15th century ⓘ |
| format | woodblock print ⓘ |
| genre | Buddhist canon ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
important witness to Ming dynasty Buddhist textual culture
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key source for East Asian Buddhist textual transmission ⓘ major early Ming printed canon ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early Ming period ⓘ |
| influenced |
Japanese Buddhism
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Korean Buddhism ⓘ Vietnamese Buddhism ⓘ later Chinese Buddhist canons ⓘ |
| influencedBy | earlier Chinese printed canons ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| mediaType | printed book ⓘ |
| patron | Yongle Emperor ⓘ |
| placeOfProduction | Beijing ⓘ |
| preservationStatus | partially extant ⓘ |
| productionMethod | woodblock printing ⓘ |
| region | East Asia ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Chinese Buddhist Canon
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Tripiṭaka ⓘ
linked to:
Tripitaka
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| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| script | Chinese characters ⓘ |
| sponsorType | imperial sponsorship ⓘ |
| subject |
Buddhist doctrine
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Buddhist monastic discipline ⓘ Buddhist ritual practice ⓘ |
| tradition |
East Asian Buddhism
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Mahāyāna Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Mahayana
|
| usedIn |
monastic study
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ritual recitation ⓘ scriptural reference ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Chinese ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Yongle Northern Canon Description of subject: The Yongle Northern Canon is a significant early Ming dynasty printed edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon, commissioned under the Yongle Emperor and notable for its historical and textual influence on East Asian Buddhism.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Qianlong Canon
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follows
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Yongle Canon (Buddhist edition, conceptually as imperial canon project)
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linked to: Yongle Northern Canon