I Ching
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The I Ching, or "Book of Changes," is an ancient Chinese divination text and foundational work of Chinese philosophy that uses a system of hexagrams and trigrams to explore change, balance, and decision-making.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Book of Changes | 2 |
| I Ching canonical | 2 |
| Yijing | 2 |
| I Ching trigrams | 1 |
| Yijing Hexagram Symbols | 1 |
| Zhouyi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1210695 — 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: I Ching Context triple: [Taegeukgi, trigramSystem, I Ching]
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A.
Tao Te Ching
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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B.
Daozang
Daozang is the vast canonical collection of Taoist scriptures, rituals, and commentaries compiled over centuries as the primary literary foundation of Taoist religious and philosophical tradition.
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C.
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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D.
The Ancient Wisdom
The Ancient Wisdom is a theosophical book by Annie Besant that presents an overview of esoteric philosophy, including teachings on the soul, karma, reincarnation, and the structure of the universe.
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E.
The Wheel of Life
The Wheel of Life is a prominent bronze sculpture by Gustav Vigeland symbolizing the human life cycle, located in Oslo’s Vigeland Sculpture Park.
- 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: I Ching Target entity description: The I Ching, or "Book of Changes," is an ancient Chinese divination text and foundational work of Chinese philosophy that uses a system of hexagrams and trigrams to explore change, balance, and decision-making.
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A.
Tao Te Ching
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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B.
Daozang
Daozang is the vast canonical collection of Taoist scriptures, rituals, and commentaries compiled over centuries as the primary literary foundation of Taoist religious and philosophical tradition.
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C.
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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D.
The Ancient Wisdom
The Ancient Wisdom is a theosophical book by Annie Besant that presents an overview of esoteric philosophy, including teachings on the soul, karma, reincarnation, and the structure of the universe.
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E.
The Wheel of Life
The Wheel of Life is a prominent bronze sculpture by Gustav Vigeland symbolizing the human life cycle, located in Oslo’s Vigeland Sculpture Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese classic text
ⓘ
Confucian classic ⓘ Taoist classic ⓘ divination text ⓘ philosophical work ⓘ |
| alternateName |
I Ching
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surface form:
Book of Changes
I Ching ⓘ
surface form:
Yijing
I Ching ⓘ
surface form:
Zhouyi
|
| associatedWithConcept |
Dao
ⓘ
Earth ⓘ Heaven ⓘ balance ⓘ change ⓘ cosmology ⓘ decision-making ⓘ divination ⓘ human realm ⓘ moral self-cultivation ⓘ yin and yang ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese culture ⓘ |
| earliestStrataDate | late 2nd millennium BCE ⓘ |
| genre |
oracular text
ⓘ
wisdom literature ⓘ |
| hasCommentaryTradition |
Han dynasty commentaries
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Neo-Confucian commentaries ⓘ Ten Wings ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Judgment texts
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Line statements ⓘ Ten Wings ⓘ hexagram diagrams ⓘ trigram diagrams ⓘ |
| hasStructure | binary line system ⓘ |
| influenced |
Carl Jung
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Chinese cosmology ⓘ Chinese medicine ⓘ Confucianism ⓘ East Asian philosophy ⓘ Neo-Confucianism ⓘ Taoism ⓘ feng shui ⓘ modern depth psychology ⓘ |
| laterCommentariesDate |
Han dynasty
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Warring States period ⓘ |
| lineTypes |
broken line
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unbroken line ⓘ |
| methodOfDivination |
coin casting
ⓘ
yarrow stalks ⓘ |
| numberOfHexagrams | 64 ⓘ |
| numberOfTrigrams | 8 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| partOf | Five Classics ⓘ |
| relatedSystem |
traditional Chinese calendar
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surface form:
Chinese calendar
Five Phases theory ⓘ bagua ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Western Zhou period ⓘ |
| traditionallyAttributedTo |
Confucius
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Duke of Zhou ⓘ King Wen of Zhou ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ethical reflection
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personal guidance ⓘ political decision-making ⓘ |
| uses |
hexagram
ⓘ
trigram ⓘ |
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: I Ching Description of subject: The I Ching, or "Book of Changes," is an ancient Chinese divination text and foundational work of Chinese philosophy that uses a system of hexagrams and trigrams to explore change, balance, and decision-making.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Book of Changes
subject surface form:
Taegeuk
this entity surface form:
I Ching trigrams
this entity surface form:
Book of Changes
this entity surface form:
Yijing
this entity surface form:
Zhouyi
this entity surface form:
Yijing Hexagram Symbols
this entity surface form:
Yijing