Xiong Yi

E190503

Xiong Yi was the legendary early ruler credited with establishing the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the Zhou dynasty.

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Label Occurrences
Xiong Yi canonical 3

Statements (25)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Chinese figure
founder of state
legendary ruler
associatedDynasty Zhou dynasty
associatedState Chu
country Ancient China
surface form: ancient China
creditedWith founding the state of Chu
culture Chinese
eraContext Western Zhou period
surface form: Zhou feudal system
familyName Xiong
founderOf Chu
givenName Yi
historicity uncertain
houseOrClan Xiong clan
languageContext Old Chinese historical records
legacy ancestor of later Chu kings
mentionedIn Chinese historical tradition
mythologyStatus semi-legendary
name Xiong Yi self-link
positionHeld early ruler of Chu
regionRuled Central China
surface form: Jingchu region
roleInHistory progenitor of Chu ruling house
successorState State of Chu
surface form: Chu (major Zhou-era state)
timePeriod early Western Zhou period
title ruler of Chu

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: Xiong Yi
Description of subject: Xiong Yi was the legendary early ruler credited with establishing the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the Zhou dynasty.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

State of Chu founder Xiong Yi
Xiong clan founder Xiong Yi
Xiong Yi name Xiong Yi self-link