Ye Zhichao
E306934
Ye Zhichao was a late Qing dynasty Chinese general best known for commanding Chinese forces during the First Sino-Japanese War, including at the Battle of Seonghwan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ye Zhichao canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2417169 — 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: Ye Zhichao Context triple: [Battle of Seonghwan, commander, Ye Zhichao]
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A.
Yao Yecheng
Yao Yecheng was the adoptive mother of Chiang Wei-kuo, the son of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek.
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B.
Yu Minhong
Yu Minhong is a prominent Chinese entrepreneur and educator best known as the founder of New Oriental Education & Technology Group, one of China’s largest private education companies.
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C.
Xiong Yi
Xiong Yi was the legendary early ruler credited with establishing the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the Zhou dynasty.
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D.
Ye Zhengxian
Ye Zhengxian is known primarily as a child of the prominent Chinese military leader Ye Ting.
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E.
Ye Qun
Ye Qun was a prominent Chinese Communist political figure and military officer, best known for her influential role in party affairs during the Cultural Revolution and her involvement in the events surrounding the Lin Biao incident.
- 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: Ye Zhichao Target entity description: Ye Zhichao was a late Qing dynasty Chinese general best known for commanding Chinese forces during the First Sino-Japanese War, including at the Battle of Seonghwan.
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A.
Yao Yecheng
Yao Yecheng was the adoptive mother of Chiang Wei-kuo, the son of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek.
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B.
Yu Minhong
Yu Minhong is a prominent Chinese entrepreneur and educator best known as the founder of New Oriental Education & Technology Group, one of China’s largest private education companies.
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C.
Xiong Yi
Xiong Yi was the legendary early ruler credited with establishing the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the Zhou dynasty.
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D.
Ye Zhengxian
Ye Zhengxian is known primarily as a child of the prominent Chinese military leader Ye Ting.
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E.
Ye Qun
Ye Qun was a prominent Chinese Communist political figure and military officer, best known for her influential role in party affairs during the Cultural Revolution and her involvement in the events surrounding the Lin Biao incident.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Qing dynasty general
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| battle | Battle of Seonghwan ⓘ |
| citizenship | Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| conflict | First Sino-Japanese War ⓘ |
| country | Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| era |
Qing dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
late Qing dynasty
|
| ethnicity | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | military affairs ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| government |
Qing dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Qing government
|
| hasNameInChinese | 葉志超 ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| involvedIn | Sino-Japanese conflicts over Korea ⓘ |
| knownAs | Ye Zhichao ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Qing army
ⓘ
surface form:
Qing dynasty army
|
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Chinese defeat at the Battle of Seonghwan ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding Chinese forces at the Battle of Seonghwan
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commanding Chinese forces in the First Sino-Japanese War ⓘ |
| occupation |
general
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military commander ⓘ |
| partOf | Qing military leadership ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Qing military commander in Korea ⓘ |
| region | China ⓘ |
| role | commander of Chinese forces in Korea during the First Sino-Japanese War ⓘ |
| side |
First Sino-Japanese War
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surface form:
Qing China in the First Sino-Japanese War
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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: Ye Zhichao Description of subject: Ye Zhichao was a late Qing dynasty Chinese general best known for commanding Chinese forces during the First Sino-Japanese War, including at the Battle of Seonghwan.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.