Kublai Khan
E25319
Kublai Khan was the 13th-century Mongol emperor who founded China’s Yuan dynasty and presided over one of the largest empires in history.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kublai Khan canonical | 78 |
| Emperor Shizu of Yuan | 1 |
| Emperor of the Great Yuan | 1 |
| Emperor of the Yuan dynasty | 1 |
| Kublai | 1 |
| Qubilai Khan | 1 |
| Хубилай хаан | 1 |
| 忽必烈 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T200125 — 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: Kublai Khan Context triple: [Kubla Khan, mainCharacter, Kublai Khan]
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A.
Humayun
Humayun was the second emperor of the Mughal Empire, known for temporarily losing his kingdom to Afghan rivals before regaining it and paving the way for the expansive rule of his son Akbar.
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B.
Mongol
The Mongols were a Central and Northeast Asian nomadic people who, under leaders like Genghis Khan, created one of the largest contiguous empires in history and profoundly influenced Eurasian politics, culture, and trade.
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C.
Yao
Yao is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known as an industrial and residential hub within the Kansai region.
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D.
Babur
Babur was a Central Asian conqueror and the first Mughal emperor, who established Mughal rule in the Indian subcontinent in the early 16th century.
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E.
Sultan
The Sultan was the supreme monarch of the Ottoman Empire, wielding ultimate political, military, and religious authority over its vast territories.
- 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: Kublai Khan Target entity description: Kublai Khan was the 13th-century Mongol emperor who founded China’s Yuan dynasty and presided over one of the largest empires in history.
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A.
Humayun
Humayun was the second emperor of the Mughal Empire, known for temporarily losing his kingdom to Afghan rivals before regaining it and paving the way for the expansive rule of his son Akbar.
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B.
Mongol
The Mongols were a Central and Northeast Asian nomadic people who, under leaders like Genghis Khan, created one of the largest contiguous empires in history and profoundly influenced Eurasian politics, culture, and trade.
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C.
Yao
Yao is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, known as an industrial and residential hub within the Kansai region.
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D.
Babur
Babur was a Central Asian conqueror and the first Mughal emperor, who established Mughal rule in the Indian subcontinent in the early 16th century.
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E.
Sultan
The Sultan was the supreme monarch of the Ottoman Empire, wielding ultimate political, military, and religious authority over its vast territories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mongol ruler
ⓘ
emperor ⓘ founder of dynasty ⓘ human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Kublai Khan
ⓘ
surface form:
Emperor Shizu of Yuan
Kublai Khan ⓘ
surface form:
Qubilai Khan
|
| birthDate | 1215-09-23 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Mongol
ⓘ
surface form:
Mongol Empire
|
| capitalEstablishedAt |
Dadu
ⓘ
Khanbaliq ⓘ |
| child |
Manggala
ⓘ
Nomukhan ⓘ Temür Khan ⓘ Zhenjin ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Mongol Empire ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1294-02-18 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Dadu
ⓘ
Khanbaliq ⓘ |
| dynastyFounded | Yuan dynasty ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Mongol
ⓘ
surface form:
Mongols
|
| familyName | Borjigin ⓘ |
| father | Tolui ⓘ |
| givenName |
Kublai Khan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Kublai
|
| grandfather | Genghis Khan ⓘ |
| grandmother | Börte ⓘ |
| influenced | administration of imperial China ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Genghis Khan
ⓘ
Sorghaghtani Beki ⓘ |
| knownFor |
attempted invasions of Japan
ⓘ
conquest of the Southern Song dynasty ⓘ expanding the Mongol Empire ⓘ founding the Yuan dynasty in China ⓘ patronage of Buddhism ⓘ |
| mother | Sorghaghtani Beki ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Kublai Khan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Хубилай хаан
Kublai Khan self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
忽必烈
|
| notableWork | administrative reforms in Yuan China ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Kublai Khan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Emperor of the Yuan dynasty
Khagan of the Mongol Empire ⓘ |
| predecessor | Möngke Khan ⓘ |
| realm |
Mongol Empire
ⓘ
Yuan dynasty ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1294 ⓘ |
| reignEndAsYuanEmperor | 1294 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1260 ⓘ |
| reignStartAsYuanEmperor | 1271 ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Tengrism ⓘ Vajrayana ⓘ
surface form:
Tibetan Buddhism
|
| residence |
Khanbaliq
ⓘ
Shangdu ⓘ |
| spouse |
Chabi
ⓘ
Nambui ⓘ |
| successor | Temür Khan ⓘ |
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: Kublai Khan Description of subject: Kublai Khan was the 13th-century Mongol emperor who founded China’s Yuan dynasty and presided over one of the largest empires in history.
Referenced by (85)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mongol Empire administration
subject surface form:
Möngke Khan
subject surface form:
Möngke Khan