Ye Jianying
E233037
Ye Jianying was a prominent Chinese Communist military leader and statesman who played a key role in the founding of the People’s Republic of China and later in the political transition after the Cultural Revolution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ye Jianying canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1837887 — 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: Ye Jianying Context triple: [Whampoa Military Academy, notableAlumnus, Ye Jianying]
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A.
Zeng Liansong
Zeng Liansong was a Chinese designer best known for creating the national flag of the People's Republic of China.
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B.
Yin Jichang
Yin Jichang is a Chinese sculptor best known for designing and creating the iconic Five Rams Statue in Guangzhou.
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C.
Deng Hua
Deng Hua was a prominent Chinese military commander and general in the People's Volunteer Army during the Korean War.
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D.
Teng Daiyuan
Teng Daiyuan was a prominent Chinese Communist revolutionary and military leader who played a key role in the early development of the People's Liberation Army and the People's Republic of China.
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E.
Lin Gie-Ming
Lin Gie-Ming is the father of former NBA point guard Jeremy Lin, known for his Taiwanese heritage and influence on Jeremy’s upbringing and education.
- 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: Ye Jianying Target entity description: Ye Jianying was a prominent Chinese Communist military leader and statesman who played a key role in the founding of the People’s Republic of China and later in the political transition after the Cultural Revolution.
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A.
Zeng Liansong
Zeng Liansong was a Chinese designer best known for creating the national flag of the People's Republic of China.
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B.
Yin Jichang
Yin Jichang is a Chinese sculptor best known for designing and creating the iconic Five Rams Statue in Guangzhou.
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C.
Deng Hua
Deng Hua was a prominent Chinese military commander and general in the People's Volunteer Army during the Korean War.
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D.
Teng Daiyuan
Teng Daiyuan was a prominent Chinese Communist revolutionary and military leader who played a key role in the early development of the People's Liberation Army and the People's Republic of China.
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E.
Lin Gie-Ming
Lin Gie-Ming is the father of former NBA point guard Jeremy Lin, known for his Taiwanese heritage and influence on Jeremy’s upbringing and education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese Communist revolutionary
ⓘ
Chinese military officer ⓘ Chinese politician ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Chinese Soviet Republic
ⓘ
China ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of China
|
| awardReceived |
Order of August First
ⓘ
Order of Independence and Freedom ⓘ Order of Liberation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
China
ⓘ
China ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of China
|
| dateOfBirth | 1897-04-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1986-10-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Whampoa Military Academy
ⓘ
Yunnan Military Academy ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Hakka ⓘ |
| familyName | Ye ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Jianying ⓘ |
| ideology |
Maoism
ⓘ
Marxism–Leninism ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Hakka language
ⓘ
surface form:
Hakka Chinese
Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Chinese Communist Party ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | People's Liberation Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Marshal of the People's Republic of China ⓘ |
| name | Ye Jianying self-link ⓘ |
| nativeName | 叶剑英 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping end the Cultural Revolution
ⓘ
supporting the arrest of the Gang of Four ⓘ supporting the rise of Deng Xiaoping ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Chinese Civil War
ⓘ
Chinese Civil War ⓘ
surface form:
Chinese Communist Revolution
Long March ⓘ Northern Expedition ⓘ Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) ⓘ
surface form:
Second Sino-Japanese War
|
| placeOfBirth | Meixian District, Guangdong, Qing Empire ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Beijing
ⓘ
surface form:
Beijing, China
|
| playedRoleIn |
founding of the People's Republic of China
ⓘ
political transition after the Cultural Revolution ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
ⓘ
Governor of Guangdong ⓘ Mayor of Guangzhou ⓘ Minister of National Defense of the People's Republic of China ⓘ Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission ⓘ Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China ⓘ |
| restingPlace | Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery ⓘ |
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: Ye Jianying Description of subject: Ye Jianying was a prominent Chinese Communist military leader and statesman who played a key role in the founding of the People’s Republic of China and later in the political transition after the Cultural Revolution.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.