Tao Te Ching
E125179
Chinese classic text
Taoist scripture
philosophical text
religious text
spiritual text
wisdom literature
The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese philosophical and spiritual classic, traditionally attributed to Laozi, that expounds the principles of the Tao and serves as a foundational text of Taoism.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tao Te Ching canonical | 6 |
| Dao De Jing | 3 |
| Daodejing | 3 |
| Classic of the Way and Virtue | 1 |
| Laozi | 1 |
| Zhuangzi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1082542 — 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: Tao Te Ching Context triple: [Taoism, hasSacredText, Tao Te Ching]
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A.
The Tao of Wu
The Tao of Wu is a philosophical and autobiographical book by RZA that blends Wu-Tang Clan history with lessons drawn from Eastern spirituality, Five Percent Nation teachings, and personal experience.
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B.
Analects
The Analects is a foundational Confucian text compiling sayings and dialogues of Confucius and his disciples that has profoundly shaped East Asian philosophy, ethics, and governance.
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C.
Tripitaka
Tripitaka is the traditional Buddhist canon, comprising three collections of teachings that form the foundational scriptures of the Buddhist religion.
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D.
Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita is a foundational Hindu scripture in the form of a philosophical dialogue that explores duty, righteousness, and spiritual wisdom, and has profoundly shaped Indian thought and leaders.
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E.
Guoyu
Guoyu is the official standardized form of the Chinese language used in mainland China and other Chinese-speaking regions.
- 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: Tao Te Ching Target entity description: The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese philosophical and spiritual classic, traditionally attributed to Laozi, that expounds the principles of the Tao and serves as a foundational text of Taoism.
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A.
The Tao of Wu
The Tao of Wu is a philosophical and autobiographical book by RZA that blends Wu-Tang Clan history with lessons drawn from Eastern spirituality, Five Percent Nation teachings, and personal experience.
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B.
Analects
The Analects is a foundational Confucian text compiling sayings and dialogues of Confucius and his disciples that has profoundly shaped East Asian philosophy, ethics, and governance.
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C.
Tripitaka
Tripitaka is the traditional Buddhist canon, comprising three collections of teachings that form the foundational scriptures of the Buddhist religion.
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D.
Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita is a foundational Hindu scripture in the form of a philosophical dialogue that explores duty, righteousness, and spiritual wisdom, and has profoundly shaped Indian thought and leaders.
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E.
Guoyu
Guoyu is the official standardized form of the Chinese language used in mainland China and other Chinese-speaking regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese classic text
ⓘ
Taoist scripture ⓘ philosophical text ⓘ religious text ⓘ spiritual text ⓘ wisdom literature ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Tao Te Ching
ⓘ
surface form:
Dao De Jing
Tao Te Ching ⓘ
surface form:
Daodejing
|
| approximateDateOfComposition | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| author | Laozi ⓘ |
| coreConcept |
Tao
ⓘ
Te ⓘ humility ⓘ non-contention ⓘ return to the source ⓘ simplicity ⓘ wu wei ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| field |
Chinese philosophy
ⓘ
comparative philosophy ⓘ religious studies ⓘ |
| genre |
aphorism
ⓘ
philosophy ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| hasCommentaryTradition | extensive ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Chapter 1
ⓘ
Chapter 2 ⓘ |
| influenced |
Chinese literature
ⓘ
Chinese philosophy ⓘ Chinese politics ⓘ Chinese religion ⓘ East Asian thought ⓘ Neo-Confucianism ⓘ Chan Buddhism ⓘ
surface form:
Zen Buddhism
|
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Tao
ⓘ
cosmology ⓘ ethics ⓘ governance ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ naturalness ⓘ virtue ⓘ wu wei ⓘ |
| numberOfChapters | 81 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| period | Warring States period ⓘ |
| preservedIn |
Chu bamboo slips
ⓘ
surface form:
Guodian bamboo slips
Mawangdui Han Tombs ⓘ
surface form:
Mawangdui manuscripts
|
| religiousTradition | Taoism ⓘ |
| scripturalStatus | foundational text of Taoism ⓘ |
| section |
Tao (Way) section
ⓘ
Te (Virtue) section ⓘ |
| structure | two main sections ⓘ |
| titleMeaning |
Tao Te Ching
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Classic of the Way and Virtue
|
| traditionalAuthor | Laozi ⓘ |
| widelyTranslated | true ⓘ |
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: Tao Te Ching Description of subject: The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese philosophical and spiritual classic, traditionally attributed to Laozi, that expounds the principles of the Tao and serves as a foundational text of Taoism.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dao De Jing
this entity surface form:
Zhuangzi
this entity surface form:
Laozi
this entity surface form:
Daodejing
this entity surface form:
Dao De Jing
this entity surface form:
Classic of the Way and Virtue
this entity surface form:
Daodejing
this entity surface form:
Daodejing
this entity surface form:
Dao De Jing