Sun Wen
E180286
Sun Wen is another name for Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary leader often called the "Father of Modern China" for his key role in overthrowing the Qing dynasty and founding the Republic of China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sun Wen canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1569073 — 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: Sun Wen Context triple: [Sun Yat-sen, alsoKnownAs, Sun Wen]
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A.
Fu Bingchang
Fu Bingchang was a Chinese diplomat and politician who represented the Republic of China in key World War II–era negotiations and later served as an ambassador and senior government official.
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B.
Yao Yecheng
Yao Yecheng was the adoptive mother of Chiang Wei-kuo, the son of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek.
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C.
Tang Enbo
Tang Enbo was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general known for his leadership in major battles against Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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D.
Jianhang Jin
Jianhang Jin is a Chinese entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early leader of the e-commerce and technology conglomerate Alibaba Group.
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E.
Sun Lianzhong
Sun Lianzhong was a Nationalist Chinese general noted for his leadership in key battles against Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- 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: Sun Wen Target entity description: Sun Wen is another name for Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary leader often called the "Father of Modern China" for his key role in overthrowing the Qing dynasty and founding the Republic of China.
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A.
Fu Bingchang
Fu Bingchang was a Chinese diplomat and politician who represented the Republic of China in key World War II–era negotiations and later served as an ambassador and senior government official.
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B.
Yao Yecheng
Yao Yecheng was the adoptive mother of Chiang Wei-kuo, the son of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek.
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C.
Tang Enbo
Tang Enbo was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general known for his leadership in major battles against Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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D.
Jianhang Jin
Jianhang Jin is a Chinese entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early leader of the e-commerce and technology conglomerate Alibaba Group.
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E.
Sun Lianzhong
Sun Lianzhong was a Nationalist Chinese general noted for his leadership in key battles against Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
national leader ⓘ physician ⓘ politician ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Sun Yat-sen
ⓘ
Sun Yi-xian ⓘ Sun Yat-sen ⓘ
surface form:
Sun Zhongshan
|
| birthDate | 1866-11-12 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan, Guangdong, Qing Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan County, Guangdong, Qing Empire
|
| causeOfDeath | liver cancer ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Qing dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Qing Empire
Republic of China ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum
ⓘ
surface form:
Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Guangzhou ⓘ
surface form:
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Guangzhou
Sun Yat-sen University ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1925-03-12 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, Republic of China ⓘ |
| education | Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| founded |
Kuomintang
ⓘ
Tongmenghui ⓘ |
| honorificTitle |
Father of Modern China
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National Father ⓘ |
| ideology |
Chinese nationalism
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Three Principles of the People ⓘ republicanism ⓘ |
| influenced |
Chinese nationalist movement
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Kuomintang ideology ⓘ |
| movement |
Chinese revolutionary movement against the Qing dynasty
ⓘ
Xinhai Revolution ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Cantonese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding the Republic of China
ⓘ
leading the Xinhai Revolution ⓘ overthrowing the Qing dynasty ⓘ proposing the Three Principles of the People ⓘ |
| occupation |
physician
ⓘ
politician ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ |
| officeAssumed | 1912-01-01 ⓘ |
| officeEnded | 1912-03-10 ⓘ |
| officeHeld | Provisional President of the Republic of China ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
China
ⓘ
Hong Kong, China ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
Japan ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| spouse |
Lu Muzhen
ⓘ
Soong Ching-ling ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Sun Wen Description of subject: Sun Wen is another name for Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary leader often called the "Father of Modern China" for his key role in overthrowing the Qing dynasty and founding the Republic of China.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sun Yat-sen