Haojing
E233751
Haojing was the primary western capital city of the early Zhou dynasty in ancient China, located near present-day Xi’an.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Haojing canonical | 8 |
| Zhou capital at Hao | 1 |
| Zhou royal domain | 1 |
| 鎬京 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2105338 — 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: Haojing Context triple: [Zhou dynasty, capital, Haojing]
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A.
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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B.
Jianye
Jianye is an ancient name for the city now known as Nanjing, a historically significant capital in several Chinese dynasties.
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C.
Zhizhong
Zhizhong is a Chinese given name shared by various individuals, including historical and contemporary figures.
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D.
Shëngjin
Shëngjin is a coastal town and port in northwestern Albania on the Adriatic Sea, historically significant for its strategic maritime position.
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E.
Lingang
Lingang is a rapidly developing industrial and high-tech district in Shanghai, China, known for hosting major manufacturing facilities such as Tesla’s Gigafactory Shanghai.
- 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: Haojing Target entity description: Haojing was the primary western capital city of the early Zhou dynasty in ancient China, located near present-day Xi’an.
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A.
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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B.
Jianye
Jianye is an ancient name for the city now known as Nanjing, a historically significant capital in several Chinese dynasties.
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C.
Zhizhong
Zhizhong is a Chinese given name shared by various individuals, including historical and contemporary figures.
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D.
Shëngjin
Shëngjin is a coastal town and port in northwestern Albania on the Adriatic Sea, historically significant for its strategic maritime position.
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E.
Lingang
Lingang is a rapidly developing industrial and high-tech district in Shanghai, China, known for hosting major manufacturing facilities such as Tesla’s Gigafactory Shanghai.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ historical capital ⓘ |
| abandonedAfter | Quanrong invasion ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Haojing
ⓘ
surface form:
Zhou capital at Hao
|
| archaeologicalEvidence |
bronze artifacts
ⓘ
inscribed oracle bones ⓘ palace foundations ⓘ rammed-earth platforms ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Zhou ritual system
ⓘ
Temple of Zhou Gong ⓘ
surface form:
Zhou royal ancestral temples
|
| capitalOf |
Western Zhou period
ⓘ
surface form:
Western Zhou dynasty
Zhou dynasty ⓘ |
| ChineseName |
Haojing
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
鎬京
|
| country | Zhou dynasty ⓘ |
| developedUnder |
Duke of Zhou
ⓘ
King Cheng of Zhou ⓘ |
| era | 11th century BCE to 8th century BCE ⓘ |
| foundedBy | King Wu of Zhou ⓘ |
| function |
administrative center of Western Zhou
ⓘ
political center of Western Zhou ⓘ ritual center of Western Zhou ⓘ |
| governmentType | monarchical capital ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
early center of Zhou feudal system
ⓘ
one of the earliest planned capitals in Chinese history ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
China
ⓘ
Guanzhong region ⓘ
surface form:
Guanzhong Plain
Shaanxi Province ⓘ
surface form:
Shaanxi
Western Zhou period ⓘ
surface form:
Western Zhou
near present-day Xi’an ⓘ |
| locatedOn | south bank of the Wei River ⓘ |
| modernAdministrativeArea | Chang’an District, Xi’an ⓘ |
| near | Fengjing ⓘ |
| neighboringSettlement | Fenghao ⓘ |
| partOf |
Zhouyuan archaeological site
ⓘ
surface form:
Fenghao capital complex
ancient Chinese capitals system ⓘ |
| region |
Guanzhong region
ⓘ
surface form:
central Shaanxi Plain
|
| relatedDynasty |
Shang dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Shang dynasty (as predecessor state)
|
| role | primary western capital city of the early Zhou dynasty ⓘ |
| romanization | Hàojīng ⓘ |
| sackedIn | 771 BCE ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Luoyi ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Western Zhou period
ⓘ
early Zhou dynasty ⓘ |
| transitionedFrom | Shang dynasty rule to Zhou rule ⓘ |
| urbanLayout | palace and ritual precincts ⓘ |
| urbanType | walled city ⓘ |
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: Haojing Description of subject: Haojing was the primary western capital city of the early Zhou dynasty in ancient China, located near present-day Xi’an.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
鎬京
this entity surface form:
Zhou capital at Hao