Niu Jian
E342072
Niu Jian was a Qing dynasty official and diplomat who served as one of the Chinese negotiators of the Treaty of Nanking, which ended the First Opium War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Niu Jian canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2699081 — 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: Niu Jian Context triple: [Treaty of Nanking, negotiatedBy, Niu Jian]
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A.
Yin Jichang
Yin Jichang is a Chinese sculptor best known for designing and creating the iconic Five Rams Statue in Guangzhou.
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B.
Wang Jian
Wang Jian was a prominent Qin dynasty general whose military campaigns were crucial in the unification of China under Qin rule.
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C.
Zhang Wenqi
Zhang Wenqi is a Chinese basketball player best known for having played professionally for the Shanghai Sharks in the Chinese Basketball Association.
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D.
Zhang Jun
Zhang Jun is a Chinese jurist and senior official who serves as the President and Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court of China.
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E.
Ma Junren
Ma Junren is a controversial Chinese track coach best known for training world-record-breaking female distance runners in the 1990s amid widespread doping allegations.
- 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: Niu Jian Target entity description: Niu Jian was a Qing dynasty official and diplomat who served as one of the Chinese negotiators of the Treaty of Nanking, which ended the First Opium War.
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A.
Yin Jichang
Yin Jichang is a Chinese sculptor best known for designing and creating the iconic Five Rams Statue in Guangzhou.
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B.
Wang Jian
Wang Jian was a prominent Qin dynasty general whose military campaigns were crucial in the unification of China under Qin rule.
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C.
Zhang Wenqi
Zhang Wenqi is a Chinese basketball player best known for having played professionally for the Shanghai Sharks in the Chinese Basketball Association.
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D.
Zhang Jun
Zhang Jun is a Chinese jurist and senior official who serves as the President and Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court of China.
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E.
Ma Junren
Ma Junren is a controversial Chinese track coach best known for training world-record-breaking female distance runners in the 1990s amid widespread doping allegations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Qing dynasty official
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diplomat ⓘ peace treaty ⓘ person ⓘ war ⓘ |
| concludedConflict |
Anglo-Chinese War
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surface form:
First Opium War
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| countryOfCitizenship | Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| employer |
Qing imperial bureaucracy
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surface form:
Qing government
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| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the Chinese negotiators of the Treaty of Nanking ⓘ |
| notableWork | negotiation of the Treaty of Nanking ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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official ⓘ |
| participant |
Qing dynasty
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Anglo-Chinese War
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surface form:
First Opium War
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| positionHeld |
Qing dynasty diplomat
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Qing dynasty official ⓘ |
| role | Chinese negotiator of the Treaty of Nanking ⓘ |
| signatory |
Qing dynasty
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| significantEvent | end of the First Opium War ⓘ |
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: Niu Jian Description of subject: Niu Jian was a Qing dynasty official and diplomat who served as one of the Chinese negotiators of the Treaty of Nanking, which ended the First Opium War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.