Yibin
E279044
Yibin is a historic prefecture-level city in southwestern China known as the "First City on the Yangtze River," where the Jinsha and Min rivers converge to form the Yangtze.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1909827 — 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: Yibin Context triple: [Sichuan Province, hasMajorCity, Yibin]
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A.
Luzhou
Luzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Sichuan, China, known for its historic river port and famous strong-aroma baijiu liquor industry.
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B.
Luzhou
Luzhou is an old historical name for the city now known as Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province in eastern China.
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C.
Deyang
Deyang is an industrial city in southwestern China known for its heavy machinery manufacturing and location near Chengdu in Sichuan Province.
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D.
Mianyang
Mianyang is a major city in southwestern China known as an important industrial and technological center within Sichuan Province.
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E.
Nanchong
Nanchong is a major city in northeastern Sichuan Province, China, known as a regional transportation and economic hub with a long historical and cultural heritage.
- 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: Yibin Target entity description: Yibin is a historic prefecture-level city in southwestern China known as the "First City on the Yangtze River," where the Jinsha and Min rivers converge to form the Yangtze.
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A.
Luzhou
Luzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Sichuan, China, known for its historic river port and famous strong-aroma baijiu liquor industry.
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B.
Luzhou
Luzhou is an old historical name for the city now known as Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province in eastern China.
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C.
Deyang
Deyang is an industrial city in southwestern China known for its heavy machinery manufacturing and location near Chengdu in Sichuan Province.
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D.
Mianyang
Mianyang is a major city in southwestern China known as an important industrial and technological center within Sichuan Province.
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E.
Nanchong
Nanchong is a major city in northeastern Sichuan Province, China, known as a regional transportation and economic hub with a long historical and cultural heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | prefecture-level city ⓘ |
| administrativeLevel | prefecture-level city ⓘ |
| borderingProvince |
Guizhou Province
ⓘ
surface form:
Guizhou
Yunnan Province ⓘ
surface form:
Yunnan
|
| ChineseName |
Yibin
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
宜宾市
|
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| famousProduct | Wuliangye baijiu ⓘ |
| formsRiver | Yangtze River ⓘ |
| governingBody | Yibin Municipal People’s Government ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeDivision |
Changning County
ⓘ
Cuiping District ⓘ Gao County ⓘ Gong County ⓘ Jiang’an County ⓘ Junlian County ⓘ Nanxi District ⓘ Pingshan County ⓘ Xingwen County ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Yibin Wuliangye Airport ⓘ |
| hasCitySeat | Cuiping District ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation |
Yibin Railway Station
ⓘ
Yibin West Railway Station ⓘ |
| historicalRole | important river port on the upper Yangtze ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | historic city ⓘ |
| knownFor |
confluence of Jinsha and Min rivers
ⓘ
forming the upper reaches of the Yangtze River ⓘ |
| language | Southwestern Mandarin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Sichuan Province
ⓘ
Southwest China ⓘ
surface form:
Southwestern China
junction of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou regions ⓘ upper reaches of the Yangtze River ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver |
Jinsha River
ⓘ
Min River ⓘ Yangtze River ⓘ |
| majorIndustry |
chemical industry
ⓘ
liquor production ⓘ machinery manufacturing ⓘ paper-making ⓘ |
| partOf |
China
ⓘ
surface form:
People’s Republic of China
Sichuan Basin ⓘ
surface form:
Sichuan Basin region
|
| populationEstimate | over 4 million (prefecture-level area) ⓘ |
| provinceCapitalDistance | approximately 250 km from Chengdu (by road) ⓘ |
| riverConfluence |
Jinsha River
ⓘ
surface form:
Jinsha River and Min River
|
| shortName | Yibin self-link ⓘ |
| slogan | First City on the Yangtze River ⓘ |
| timeZone | China Standard Time ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +8 ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Chinese characters ⓘ |
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: Yibin Description of subject: Yibin is a historic prefecture-level city in southwestern China known as the "First City on the Yangtze River," where the Jinsha and Min rivers converge to form the Yangtze.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
宜宾市