Yinxu
E185214
Yinxu is the archaeological site of the late Shang dynasty capital near Anyang, China, renowned for its oracle bone inscriptions and royal tombs.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yinxu canonical | 8 |
| Yin Xu | 2 |
| Yinxu archaeological site | 2 |
| Houmuwu Ding | 1 |
| Ruins of Yin | 1 |
| Yinxu Museum | 1 |
| Yinxu culture | 1 |
| Yinxu site region | 1 |
| 殷墟 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1624821 — 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: Yinxu Context triple: [Henan Province, containsArchaeologicalSite, Yinxu]
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A.
Mawangdui Han Tombs
Mawangdui Han Tombs is an archaeological site near Changsha in Hunan, China, famous for its exceptionally well-preserved Western Han dynasty tombs, artifacts, and the mummified body of Lady Dai.
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B.
Shangdu
Shangdu was the summer capital of Kublai Khan’s Yuan dynasty in China, later immortalized in Western literature as the fabled city of Xanadu.
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C.
Xinjing
Xinjing was the capital city of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in northeastern China during the 1930s and early 1940s.
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D.
Dunhuang
Dunhuang is an ancient oasis city in northwestern China renowned for its strategic position as a gateway between China and Central Asia and for the nearby Mogao Caves filled with Buddhist art.
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E.
Zhizhong
Zhizhong is a Chinese given name shared by various individuals, including historical and contemporary figures.
- 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: Yinxu Target entity description: Yinxu is the archaeological site of the late Shang dynasty capital near Anyang, China, renowned for its oracle bone inscriptions and royal tombs.
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A.
Mawangdui Han Tombs
Mawangdui Han Tombs is an archaeological site near Changsha in Hunan, China, famous for its exceptionally well-preserved Western Han dynasty tombs, artifacts, and the mummified body of Lady Dai.
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B.
Shangdu
Shangdu was the summer capital of Kublai Khan’s Yuan dynasty in China, later immortalized in Western literature as the fabled city of Xanadu.
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C.
Xinjing
Xinjing was the capital city of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in northeastern China during the 1930s and early 1940s.
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D.
Dunhuang
Dunhuang is an ancient oasis city in northwestern China renowned for its strategic position as a gateway between China and Central Asia and for the nearby Mogao Caves filled with Buddhist art.
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E.
Zhizhong
Zhizhong is a Chinese given name shared by various individuals, including historical and contemporary figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UNESCO World Heritage Site
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archaeological site ⓘ former capital city ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Yinxu
ⓘ
surface form:
Ruins of Yin
|
| associatedWithDynasty | Shang dynasty ⓘ |
| containsTombOf | Fu Hao ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalPeriod |
Ancient China
ⓘ
surface form:
Chinese Bronze Age
|
| discoveredBy | archaeologists in early 20th century ⓘ |
| endTime | circa 11th century BCE ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
Academia Sinica
ⓘ
Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences ⓘ |
| firstScientificExcavationYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalFeature |
palace-temple district
ⓘ
residential quarters ⓘ royal cemetery ⓘ sacrificial pits ⓘ workshop areas ⓘ |
| hasFind |
bone tools
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chariots and horse burials ⓘ inscribed ox scapulae ⓘ inscribed turtle plastrons ⓘ jade artifacts ⓘ ritual bronze vessels ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bronze artifacts
ⓘ
early Chinese writing ⓘ large-scale palace foundations ⓘ oracle bone inscriptions ⓘ ritual remains ⓘ royal tombs ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Anyang
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Henan Province ⓘ North China Plain ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver |
Luo River
ⓘ
surface form:
Huan River
|
| nativeName |
Yinxu
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
殷墟
|
| partOf | Chinese Bronze Age archaeological sites ⓘ |
| period |
Shang dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Late Shang period
|
| recognizedAsCapitalOf | Shang dynasty ⓘ |
| significance |
earliest major center of Chinese writing
ⓘ
key site for study of Shang civilization ⓘ |
| startTime | circa 13th century BCE ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria |
(ii)
ⓘ
(iii) ⓘ (iv) ⓘ (vi) ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageListingYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteId | 1114 ⓘ |
| writingSystemEvidence | oracle bone script ⓘ |
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: Yinxu Description of subject: Yinxu is the archaeological site of the late Shang dynasty capital near Anyang, China, renowned for its oracle bone inscriptions and royal tombs.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yin Xu
this entity surface form:
Houmuwu Ding
this entity surface form:
殷墟
this entity surface form:
Ruins of Yin
this entity surface form:
Yinxu culture
this entity surface form:
Yinxu site region
subject surface form:
Wu Ding
subject surface form:
Wu Ding
subject surface form:
Wu Ding
this entity surface form:
Yinxu archaeological site
this entity surface form:
Yin Xu