state of Qin
E181425
The state of Qin was an ancient Chinese kingdom in the western region of China that rose to power during the Warring States period and ultimately unified China, laying the foundation for the Qin dynasty.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Qin state | 14 |
| Qin | 6 |
| Qin (state) | 6 |
| state of Qin canonical | 3 |
| Qin (approximate, traditional accounts) | 1 |
| Qin central government | 1 |
| Qin court | 1 |
| State of Qin | 1 |
| State of Qin authorities | 1 |
| state of Qin (as diplomatic opponent) | 1 |
| 秦 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1592722 — 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: state of Qin Context triple: [Qin dynasty, namedAfter, state of Qin]
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A.
State of Chu
The State of Chu was a powerful and culturally influential ancient Chinese kingdom during the Zhou dynasty, known for its distinctive art, rituals, and major role in the Warring States period.
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B.
State of Qi
The State of Qi was a powerful ancient Chinese kingdom during the Zhou dynasty, noted for its economic strength, political reforms, and cultural influence among the Warring States.
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Qin dynasty
The Qin dynasty was the first imperial dynasty of a unified China, known for centralizing power, standardizing writing and measurements, and initiating construction of the Great Wall.
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Zhou dynasty
The Zhou dynasty was an ancient Chinese dynasty that succeeded the Shang, introduced the concept of the Mandate of Heaven, and laid much of the cultural and political foundation for later Chinese civilization.
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E.
Eastern Wu
Eastern Wu was a powerful kingdom during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for its strong naval forces and control of the lower Yangtze River region.
- 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: state of Qin Target entity description: The state of Qin was an ancient Chinese kingdom in the western region of China that rose to power during the Warring States period and ultimately unified China, laying the foundation for the Qin dynasty.
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A.
State of Chu
The State of Chu was a powerful and culturally influential ancient Chinese kingdom during the Zhou dynasty, known for its distinctive art, rituals, and major role in the Warring States period.
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B.
State of Qi
The State of Qi was a powerful ancient Chinese kingdom during the Zhou dynasty, noted for its economic strength, political reforms, and cultural influence among the Warring States.
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C.
Qin dynasty
The Qin dynasty was the first imperial dynasty of a unified China, known for centralizing power, standardizing writing and measurements, and initiating construction of the Great Wall.
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D.
Zhou dynasty
The Zhou dynasty was an ancient Chinese dynasty that succeeded the Shang, introduced the concept of the Mandate of Heaven, and laid much of the cultural and political foundation for later Chinese civilization.
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E.
Shu Han
Shu Han was one of the Three Kingdoms of China, a state founded by Liu Bei in the early 3rd century that claimed to continue the legacy of the Han dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: state of Qin Description of subject: The state of Qin was an ancient Chinese kingdom in the western region of China that rose to power during the Warring States period and ultimately unified China, laying the foundation for the Qin dynasty.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Qin state
this entity surface form:
State of Qin
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秦
this entity surface form:
Qin state
this entity surface form:
Qin state
this entity surface form:
Qin state
this entity surface form:
Qin (approximate, traditional accounts)
subject surface form:
State of Zhao
this entity surface form:
Qin (state)
this entity surface form:
Qin
this entity surface form:
Qin
this entity surface form:
State of Qin authorities
this entity surface form:
Qin state
this entity surface form:
Qin (state)
this entity surface form:
Qin (state)
this entity surface form:
Qin (state)
this entity surface form:
Qin (state)
this entity surface form:
Qin
this entity surface form:
state of Qin (as diplomatic opponent)
this entity surface form:
Qin state
this entity surface form:
Qin state
this entity surface form:
Qin state
this entity surface form:
Qin
this entity surface form:
Qin state
this entity surface form:
Qin central government
this entity surface form:
Qin state
subject surface form:
Jin (state)
this entity surface form:
Qin (state)
this entity surface form:
Qin state