Mingshi (History of Ming)
E1042234
Mingshi (History of Ming) is one of the official Chinese dynastic histories, compiling a comprehensive account of the politics, society, culture, and notable events of the Ming dynasty.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chinese Yuan and Ming records | 1 |
| Ming historical chronicles | 1 |
| Ming historical records | 1 |
| Mingshi (History of Ming) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13470130 — 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.
Target entity: Mingshi (History of Ming) Context triple: [Establishing Civil, recordedIn, Mingshi (History of Ming)]
-
A.
Qing Veritable Records
The Qing Veritable Records are an official dynastic historical compilation of the Qing Empire, consisting of meticulously edited annals of each emperor’s reign based on court documents and archival materials.
-
B.
Zizhi Tongjian
Zizhi Tongjian is an 11th-century Chinese chronological historical text compiled under Sima Guang that provides a comprehensive narrative of Chinese history from the Warring States period to the Five Dynasties.
-
C.
New History of the Five Dynasties
New History of the Five Dynasties is an 11th-century Chinese historical work that offers a revised and more critical account of the Five Dynasties period, emphasizing moral evaluation of rulers and officials.
-
D.
Book of Histories
The Book of Histories is a 12th-century Byzantine scholarly compilation by John Tzetzes that retells and explains a wide range of classical myths, histories, and literary references.
-
E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Mingshi (History of Ming) Target entity description: Mingshi (History of Ming) is one of the official Chinese dynastic histories, compiling a comprehensive account of the politics, society, culture, and notable events of the Ming dynasty.
-
A.
Qing Veritable Records
The Qing Veritable Records are an official dynastic historical compilation of the Qing Empire, consisting of meticulously edited annals of each emperor’s reign based on court documents and archival materials.
-
B.
Zizhi Tongjian
Zizhi Tongjian is an 11th-century Chinese chronological historical text compiled under Sima Guang that provides a comprehensive narrative of Chinese history from the Warring States period to the Five Dynasties.
-
C.
New History of the Five Dynasties
New History of the Five Dynasties is an 11th-century Chinese historical work that offers a revised and more critical account of the Five Dynasties period, emphasizing moral evaluation of rulers and officials.
-
D.
Book of Histories
The Book of Histories is a 12th-century Byzantine scholarly compilation by John Tzetzes that retells and explains a wide range of classical myths, histories, and literary references.
-
E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Twenty-Four Histories
ⓘ
historical text ⓘ official Chinese dynastic history ⓘ |
| cataloguedIn | Siku Quanshu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ChineseName | 明史 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Qing government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| compiledIn | Qing dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| compiler |
Lu Xixiong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wan Sitong NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhang Tingyu NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhang Yushu NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhu Yizun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| completionYear | 1739 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| coversPeriod | Ming dynasty (1368–1644) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticizedFor |
political bias
ⓘ
reliance on existing Ming records ⓘ rushed compilation ⓘ |
| documents |
biographies of Ming emperors
ⓘ
biographies of Ming officials ⓘ biographies of notable Ming figures ⓘ cultural history of the Ming dynasty ⓘ economic history of the Ming dynasty ⓘ military history of the Ming dynasty ⓘ political history of the Ming dynasty ⓘ social history of the Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| editorialDirector | Zhang Tingyu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eraOfCompletion | Qianlong Emperor reign ⓘ |
| genre | standard history (zhengshi) ⓘ |
| hasSection |
Biographies of foreign peoples
ⓘ
Treatises on institutions and regulations ⓘ |
| historicalPerspective | compiled under a conquering dynasty ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | standard reference for Ming dynasty history ⓘ |
| influenced | later scholarship on Ming history ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChapters | 332 ⓘ |
| partOf | official histories of imperial China ⓘ |
| predecessorWork | Ming Shilu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Ming Shi Lu (Veritable Records of the Ming)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ming Shilu NERFINISHED ⓘ Qingshi Gao (Draft History of Qing) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure |
annals (benji)
ⓘ
biographies (liezhuan) ⓘ tables (biao) ⓘ treatises (zhi) ⓘ |
| subject | Ming dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| translatedTitle | History of Ming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesSource |
Ming Veritable Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
local gazetteers ⓘ private writings ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: Mingshi (History of Ming) Description of subject: Mingshi (History of Ming) is one of the official Chinese dynastic histories, compiling a comprehensive account of the politics, society, culture, and notable events of the Ming dynasty.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.