Shaanxi Province
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Shaanxi Province is a landlocked region in north-central China known for its historical capital Xi'an and the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shaanxi Province canonical | 74 |
| Shaanxi | 39 |
| Liang Province | 1 |
| Shaanxi (eastern part) | 1 |
| Shaanxi Province, China | 1 |
| Shaanxi region | 1 |
| southern Shaanxi | 1 |
| 陕 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T267891 — 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: Shaanxi Province Context triple: [Hubei Province, borders, Shaanxi Province]
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A.
Henan Province
Henan Province is a populous landlocked province in central China, historically regarded as a cradle of Chinese civilization and home to several ancient capitals.
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B.
Hebei
Hebei is a northern Chinese province surrounding Beijing and Tianjin, historically significant as a major political, military, and industrial region.
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C.
Hubei Province
Hubei Province is a landlocked region in central China known for its capital city Wuhan, major role in industry and transportation, and significant historical and cultural heritage.
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D.
Shandong
Shandong is a coastal province in eastern China that has historically been a significant political, military, and cultural center, notably during various conflicts in modern Chinese history.
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E.
Jiangxi Province
Jiangxi Province is an inland province in southeastern China known for its rich revolutionary history, porcelain production in Jingdezhen, and scenic landscapes such as Lushan Mountain and Poyang Lake.
- 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: Shaanxi Province Target entity description: Shaanxi Province is a landlocked region in north-central China known for its historical capital Xi'an and the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
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A.
Henan Province
Henan Province is a populous landlocked province in central China, historically regarded as a cradle of Chinese civilization and home to several ancient capitals.
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B.
Hebei
Hebei is a northern Chinese province surrounding Beijing and Tianjin, historically significant as a major political, military, and industrial region.
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C.
Hubei Province
Hubei Province is a landlocked region in central China known for its capital city Wuhan, major role in industry and transportation, and significant historical and cultural heritage.
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D.
Shandong
Shandong is a coastal province in eastern China that has historically been a significant political, military, and cultural center, notably during various conflicts in modern Chinese history.
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E.
Jiangxi Province
Jiangxi Province is an inland province in southeastern China known for its rich revolutionary history, porcelain production in Jingdezhen, and scenic landscapes such as Lushan Mountain and Poyang Lake.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Shaanxi Province Description of subject: Shaanxi Province is a landlocked region in north-central China known for its historical capital Xi'an and the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
Referenced by (119)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shaanxi
subject surface form:
Xianyang
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Liang Province
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Shaanxi
this entity surface form:
Shaanxi
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Shaanxi region
subject surface form:
State of Qin
this entity surface form:
Shaanxi
this entity surface form:
Shaanxi
this entity surface form:
Shaanxi
this entity surface form:
Shaanxi Province, China
this entity surface form:
Shaanxi
this entity surface form:
Shaanxi
this entity surface form:
Shaanxi
this entity surface form:
Shaanxi
this entity surface form:
Shaanxi
this entity surface form:
Shaanxi
this entity surface form:
Shaanxi