Yingtian
E381073
Yingtian was an important early Ming dynasty capital city, historically centered around present-day Nanjing in China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yingtian canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3700832 — 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: Yingtian Context triple: [Hongwu Emperor, deathPlace, Yingtian]
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A.
Guangyi
Guangyi was a warship that served in China's late 19th-century Beiyang Fleet, one of the Qing dynasty's principal modern naval forces.
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B.
Yingqin
Yingqin is the given name of He Yingqin, a prominent Chinese Nationalist military leader and politician of the early 20th century.
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C.
Longqing
Longqing was the era name of a brief but notable period of the Ming dynasty in China, associated with the reign of the Longqing Emperor in the 16th century.
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D.
Yanyou
Yanyou was a reign era of the Yuan dynasty under Emperor Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan in the early 14th century.
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E.
Da Yuan
Da Yuan is the official Chinese name for the Yuan dynasty, the Mongol-ruled imperial dynasty that governed China from the late 13th to the mid-14th century.
- 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: Yingtian Target entity description: Yingtian was an important early Ming dynasty capital city, historically centered around present-day Nanjing in China.
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A.
Guangyi
Guangyi was a warship that served in China's late 19th-century Beiyang Fleet, one of the Qing dynasty's principal modern naval forces.
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B.
Yingqin
Yingqin is the given name of He Yingqin, a prominent Chinese Nationalist military leader and politician of the early 20th century.
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C.
Longqing
Longqing was the era name of a brief but notable period of the Ming dynasty in China, associated with the reign of the Longqing Emperor in the 16th century.
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D.
Yanyou
Yanyou was a reign era of the Yuan dynasty under Emperor Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan in the early 14th century.
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E.
Da Yuan
Da Yuan is the official Chinese name for the Yuan dynasty, the Mongol-ruled imperial dynasty that governed China from the late 13th to the mid-14th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former capital
ⓘ
historical city ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
early Ming court
ⓘ
founding of the Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| capitalType |
early Ming capital
ⓘ
primary capital ⓘ |
| civilization | Chinese civilization ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| dynasty | Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Chinese imperial court
ⓘ
surface form:
Hongwu Emperor’s court
Ming central government ⓘ |
| heritage | Chinese imperial capital tradition ⓘ |
| historicalNameOf | Nanjing ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 14th century ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Lower reaches of the Yangtze River
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surface form:
Lower Yangtze region
|
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
Nanjing Imperial Palace
ⓘ
surface form:
Ming imperial palace in Nanjing
Nanjing City Wall ⓘ
surface form:
Nanjing city walls
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| locatedIn |
Jiangsu
ⓘ
Ming dynasty ⓘ eastern China ⓘ present-day Nanjing ⓘ |
| modernEquivalent | Nanjing ⓘ |
| partOf | Ming imperial capital system ⓘ |
| predecessor | Jurchen and Yuan-era Nanjing settlements ⓘ |
| river | Yangtze River ⓘ |
| role |
administrative center
ⓘ
cultural center ⓘ economic center ⓘ imperial capital ⓘ military center ⓘ political center ⓘ |
| script | Chinese characters ⓘ |
| significance | one of the earliest capitals of the Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| status | defunct city name ⓘ |
| successor |
Beijing as Ming capital
ⓘ
Nanjing ⓘ |
| timeAsCapital | early Ming period ⓘ |
| topLevelAdministrativeUnit |
Ming dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Ming China
|
| urbanType |
capital city
ⓘ
walled city ⓘ |
| usedBy | Hongwu Emperor ⓘ |
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: Yingtian Description of subject: Yingtian was an important early Ming dynasty capital city, historically centered around present-day Nanjing in China.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.