Duan Xiushi
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Duan Xiushi was a Tang dynasty military general best known for his role in the mid-8th century conflicts between the Tang Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate in Central Asia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Duan Xiushi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2380294 — 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: Duan Xiushi Context triple: [Battle of Talas, commander, Duan Xiushi]
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A.
Li Xiuzhen
Li Xiuzhen was the wife of prominent Chinese military leader and politician Li Zongren, who served as acting president of the Republic of China in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Li Xiuwen
Li Xiuwen was the wife of Chinese military leader and revolutionary Ye Ting.
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C.
Jun Xia
Jun Xia is a Chinese architect best known for serving as the lead designer of Shanghai Tower, one of the world’s tallest skyscrapers.
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D.
Xie Lian
Xie Lian was the wife of Chinese Communist military leader and Marshal Liu Bocheng.
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E.
Lei Yixin
Lei Yixin is a Chinese sculptor internationally known for creating the monumental statue of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Washington, D.C. memorial.
- 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: Duan Xiushi Target entity description: Duan Xiushi was a Tang dynasty military general best known for his role in the mid-8th century conflicts between the Tang Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate in Central Asia.
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A.
Li Xiuzhen
Li Xiuzhen was the wife of prominent Chinese military leader and politician Li Zongren, who served as acting president of the Republic of China in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Li Xiuwen
Li Xiuwen was the wife of Chinese military leader and revolutionary Ye Ting.
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C.
Jun Xia
Jun Xia is a Chinese architect best known for serving as the lead designer of Shanghai Tower, one of the world’s tallest skyscrapers.
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D.
Xie Lian
Xie Lian was the wife of Chinese Communist military leader and Marshal Liu Bocheng.
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E.
Lei Yixin
Lei Yixin is a Chinese sculptor internationally known for creating the monumental statue of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Washington, D.C. memorial.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tang dynasty general
ⓘ
military general ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 8th century ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-8th century ⓘ |
| allegiance | Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| conflict |
Battle of Talas
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surface form:
Tang–Abbasid conflicts in Central Asia
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| country | Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| dynasty | Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| era | Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Tang–Abbasid rivalry over Central Asia ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | medieval China ⓘ |
| knownFor | service on the western frontier of the Tang Empire ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Chinese ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Tang imperial armies
ⓘ
surface form:
Tang dynasty army
|
| militaryRole | commander in Central Asian campaigns ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in mid-8th century conflicts between Tang Empire and Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ |
| occupation | general ⓘ |
| opponent |
Abbasid Caliphate
ⓘ
forces of the Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ |
| partOf | Tang military aristocracy ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Central Asia ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence | Tang Empire western frontier ⓘ |
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: Duan Xiushi Description of subject: Duan Xiushi was a Tang dynasty military general best known for his role in the mid-8th century conflicts between the Tang Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate in Central Asia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.