Cao Yu
E287014
Cao Yu was a pioneering 20th-century Chinese dramatist, often regarded as the father of modern Chinese spoken drama.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2649966 — 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: Cao Yu Context triple: [Nankai University, hasNotableAlumni, Cao Yu]
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A.
Tian Han
Tian Han was a prominent 20th-century Chinese playwright and poet best known for writing the lyrics to what became the national anthem of the People's Republic of China.
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B.
Tang Xianzu
Tang Xianzu was a renowned Ming dynasty playwright and dramatist best known for his romantic masterpiece "The Peony Pavilion."
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C.
Nie Er
Nie Er was a Chinese composer best known for writing the music to "March of the Volunteers," which later became the national anthem of the People's Republic of China.
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D.
Lu Xun
Lu Xun was a prominent Eastern Wu general and strategist of the late Three Kingdoms period, best known for his decisive victory over Liu Bei at the Battle of Yiling.
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E.
Lu Xun
Lu Xun was a pioneering 20th-century Chinese writer and intellectual whose sharp critiques of traditional culture made him a central figure in the New Culture and May Fourth movements.
- 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: Cao Yu Target entity description: Cao Yu was a pioneering 20th-century Chinese dramatist, often regarded as the father of modern Chinese spoken drama.
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A.
Tian Han
Tian Han was a prominent 20th-century Chinese playwright and poet best known for writing the lyrics to what became the national anthem of the People's Republic of China.
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B.
Tang Xianzu
Tang Xianzu was a renowned Ming dynasty playwright and dramatist best known for his romantic masterpiece "The Peony Pavilion."
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C.
Nie Er
Nie Er was a Chinese composer best known for writing the music to "March of the Volunteers," which later became the national anthem of the People's Republic of China.
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D.
Lu Xun
Lu Xun was a prominent Eastern Wu general and strategist of the late Three Kingdoms period, best known for his decisive victory over Liu Bei at the Battle of Yiling.
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E.
Lu Xun
Lu Xun was a pioneering 20th-century Chinese writer and intellectual whose sharp critiques of traditional culture made him a central figure in the New Culture and May Fourth movements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese dramatist
ⓘ
dramatist ⓘ person ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| birthName |
Wen Jiabao
ⓘ
surface form:
Wan Jiabao
|
| burialPlace | Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| child | Wan Fang ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1910-09-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1996-12-13 ⓘ |
| describedAs | father of modern Chinese spoken drama ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Tsinghua University ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Wan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
drama
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
spoken drama ⓘ |
| givenNameAtBirth | Jiabao ⓘ |
| influenced |
Chinese spoken drama
ⓘ
modern Chinese theatre ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Chinese ⓘ |
| movement | modern Chinese spoken drama ⓘ |
| name | Cao Yu self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Cao Yu
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
曹禺
萬家寶 ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Mao Dun Literature Prize
ⓘ
surface form:
Mao Dun Literature Prize (for drama, honorary/related recognition)
|
| notableWork |
Homo erectus
ⓘ
surface form:
Peking Man
Sunrise ⓘ The Family ⓘ The Wilderness ⓘ Thunderstorm ⓘ |
| occupation |
dramatist
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Tianjin
ⓘ
Tianjin ⓘ
surface form:
Tianjin, China
|
| placeOfDeath |
Beijing
ⓘ
Beijing ⓘ
surface form:
Beijing, China
|
| positionHeld |
president of the Chinese Dramatists’ Association
ⓘ
vice president of the Chinese Federation of Literary and Art Circles ⓘ |
| pseudonym | Cao Yu ⓘ |
| spouse | Shen Xiling ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Beijing
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China ⓘ |
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: Cao Yu Description of subject: Cao Yu was a pioneering 20th-century Chinese dramatist, often regarded as the father of modern Chinese spoken drama.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.