Jianye
E190202
Jianye is an ancient name for the city now known as Nanjing, a historically significant capital in several Chinese dynasties.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jianye canonical | 10 |
| Yingtian Prefecture | 2 |
| Nanjing (Liao) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1498513 — 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: Jianye Context triple: [Nanjing, historicalName, Jianye]
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A.
Zhizhong
Zhizhong is a Chinese given name shared by various individuals, including historical and contemporary figures.
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B.
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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C.
Tongling
Tongling is a prefecture-level city in eastern China known for its rich copper resources and mining industry.
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D.
Xiantao
Xiantao is a county-level city in central China’s Hubei province, known for its location on the Jianghan Plain and its role as a regional agricultural and industrial center.
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E.
Shëngjin
Shëngjin is a coastal town and port in northwestern Albania on the Adriatic Sea, historically significant for its strategic maritime position.
- 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: Jianye Target entity description: Jianye is an ancient name for the city now known as Nanjing, a historically significant capital in several Chinese dynasties.
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A.
Zhizhong
Zhizhong is a Chinese given name shared by various individuals, including historical and contemporary figures.
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B.
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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C.
Tongling
Tongling is a prefecture-level city in eastern China known for its rich copper resources and mining industry.
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D.
Xiantao
Xiantao is a county-level city in central China’s Hubei province, known for its location on the Jianghan Plain and its role as a regional agricultural and industrial center.
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E.
Shëngjin
Shëngjin is a coastal town and port in northwestern Albania on the Adriatic Sea, historically significant for its strategic maritime position.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: Jianye Description of subject: Jianye is an ancient name for the city now known as Nanjing, a historically significant capital in several Chinese dynasties.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nanjing (Liao)
this entity surface form:
Yingtian Prefecture
this entity surface form:
Yingtian Prefecture