Mozi

E190881

Chinese philosopher Mohist founder of a philosophical school

Mozi was an influential Chinese philosopher and founder of Mohism, known for advocating universal love, meritocratic governance, and opposition to offensive warfare during the Warring States period.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Mozi canonical	8
Mohism	1
Mozi (text)	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Chinese philosopher ⓘ Mohist ⓘ founder of a philosophical school ⓘ
advocated	defensive warfare only ⓘ frugal use of resources ⓘ practical, benefit-based ethics ⓘ selection of officials by merit ⓘ universal love over partial love ⓘ
alternateName	Master Mo ⓘ Mo Di ⓘ Mo Tzu ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Ancient China ⓘ
era	Hundred Schools of Thought ⓘ Warring States period ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Han Chinese ⓘ
fieldOfWork	logic and argumentation ⓘ military strategy ⓘ philosophy ⓘ
founded	Mohism ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
influenced	Chinese military thought ⓘ Mohism ⓘ surface form: Mohist school early Chinese logic ⓘ later Chinese legalist thinkers ⓘ
influencedBy	Confucianism ⓘ pre-Qin Chinese thought ⓘ
languageOfWork	Classical Chinese ⓘ
mainInterest	epistemology ⓘ ethics ⓘ logic ⓘ philosophy of war ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ
movement	Mohism ⓘ
name	Mozi self-link ⓘ
nativeLanguage	Classical Chinese ⓘ
notableIdea	condemnation of fatalism ⓘ frugality in government ⓘ impartial concern ⓘ meritocratic governance ⓘ opposition to offensive warfare ⓘ rejection of elaborate ritual and music ⓘ universal love ⓘ utilitarian evaluation of actions ⓘ
opposed	Confucian emphasis on ritual and music ⓘ hereditary privilege in government ⓘ offensive warfare ⓘ
philosophicalSchool	Mohism ⓘ
region	State of Lu ⓘ surface form: State of Lu (traditional association)
timePeriod	5th century BCE (approximate) ⓘ
work	Mozi self-link ⓘ

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: Mozi
Description of subject: Mozi was an influential Chinese philosopher and founder of Mohism, known for advocating universal love, meritocratic governance, and opposition to offensive warfare during the Warring States period.

Referenced by (10)

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

Warring States period → significantFigure → Mozi ⓘ

Zhou dynasty → philosophicalMovement → Mozi ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mohism

Spring and Autumn period → notableFigure → Mozi ⓘ

Hundred Schools of Thought → majorFigure → Mozi ⓘ

Mozi → name → Mozi self-link ⓘ

Mozi → work → Mozi self-link ⓘ

Eastern Zhou → hasNotableFigure → Mozi ⓘ

Mohism → founder → Mozi ⓘ

Mohism → namedAfter → Mozi ⓘ

Mohism → textualSource → Mozi ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mozi (text)