Zeng Chenggong
E415238
Zeng Chenggong, better known in the West as Koxinga, was a 17th-century Ming loyalist military leader who expelled the Dutch from Taiwan and established a Chinese regime on the island.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Koxinga | 6 |
| Zheng Chenggong | 5 |
| Zheng Zhilong | 3 |
| Cheng Ch'eng-kung | 1 |
| Cheng Ch'eng-kung (Wade–Giles) | 1 |
| Zeng Chenggong canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4143811 — 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: Zeng Chenggong Context triple: [Zeng, hasNotableBearer, Zeng Chenggong]
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A.
Cheng Huan
Cheng Huan is the gentle Chinese immigrant protagonist of D. W. Griffith’s 1919 silent film "Broken Blossoms," whose idealism and compassion tragically collide with the brutality of his surroundings.
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B.
Wu Sangui
Wu Sangui was a Ming dynasty general who defected to the Manchus, helping to establish the Qing dynasty and becoming infamous in Chinese history as a powerful but ultimately rebellious warlord.
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C.
Zhu Biao
Zhu Biao was the Crown Prince of the Ming dynasty and eldest son of the Hongwu Emperor, whose early death altered the imperial succession and paved the way for the Yongle Emperor’s rise.
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D.
Liu Jin
Liu Jin was a powerful and notorious eunuch official of the Ming dynasty who dominated the court during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.
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E.
Sheng Xuanhuai
Sheng Xuanhuai was a late Qing dynasty Chinese industrialist and statesman who played a key role in China's early modernization, particularly in industry, commerce, and education.
- 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: Zeng Chenggong Target entity description: Zeng Chenggong, better known in the West as Koxinga, was a 17th-century Ming loyalist military leader who expelled the Dutch from Taiwan and established a Chinese regime on the island.
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A.
Cheng Huan
Cheng Huan is the gentle Chinese immigrant protagonist of D. W. Griffith’s 1919 silent film "Broken Blossoms," whose idealism and compassion tragically collide with the brutality of his surroundings.
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B.
Wu Sangui
Wu Sangui was a Ming dynasty general who defected to the Manchus, helping to establish the Qing dynasty and becoming infamous in Chinese history as a powerful but ultimately rebellious warlord.
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C.
Zhu Biao
Zhu Biao was the Crown Prince of the Ming dynasty and eldest son of the Hongwu Emperor, whose early death altered the imperial succession and paved the way for the Yongle Emperor’s rise.
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D.
Liu Jin
Liu Jin was a powerful and notorious eunuch official of the Ming dynasty who dominated the court during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.
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E.
Sheng Xuanhuai
Sheng Xuanhuai was a late Qing dynasty Chinese industrialist and statesman who played a key role in China's early modernization, particularly in industry, commerce, and education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese person
ⓘ
Ming loyalist ⓘ historical figure ⓘ military leader ⓘ |
| allegiance | Southern Ming ⓘ |
| alternativeSpelling |
Zeng Chenggong
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cheng Ch'eng-kung
Zeng Chenggong self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cheng Ch'eng-kung (Wade–Giles)
|
| basedIn |
Quanzhou
ⓘ
Xiamen ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Hirado
ⓘ
surface form:
Hirado, Japan
|
| birthYear | 1624 ⓘ |
| child |
Zheng Keshuang
ⓘ
surface form:
Zheng Jing
|
| commanded | large maritime trading-military fleet ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn |
statues in Xiamen
ⓘ
temples in Taiwan ⓘ |
| culturalIdentity | Ming loyalist culture hero ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Tainan, Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1662 ⓘ |
| defeated |
Dutch East India Company
ⓘ
surface form:
Dutch East India Company in Taiwan
|
| era | 17th century ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| father |
Zeng Chenggong
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Zheng Zhilong
|
| founded | Kingdom of Tungning ⓘ |
| hasName |
Guoxingye
ⓘ
Zeng Chenggong self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Koxinga
Zeng Chenggong self-link ⓘ
surface form:
Zheng Chenggong
Zheng Sen ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Prince of Yanping ⓘ |
| influenced | subsequent Chinese claims over Taiwan ⓘ |
| knownFor |
establishing a Chinese regime in Taiwan
ⓘ
expelling the Dutch from Taiwan ⓘ resistance against the Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| language | Hokkien ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| militaryCampaign | Siege of Fort Zeelandia ⓘ |
| mother | Tagawa Matsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | attain success ⓘ |
| nationality |
Ming dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Ming China
|
| occupation |
naval commander
ⓘ
warlord ⓘ |
| opposed | Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
Chinese historical dramas
ⓘ
Taiwanese historical narratives ⓘ |
| posthumousReputation |
national hero in Taiwan
ⓘ
patriotic figure in Chinese historiography ⓘ |
| refusedTo | submit to Qing rule ⓘ |
| religion | Confucianism ⓘ |
| ruledTerritory | parts of Taiwan ⓘ |
| spouse | Dong You NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surrenderDemandedBy | Qing dynasty ⓘ |
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: Zeng Chenggong Description of subject: Zeng Chenggong, better known in the West as Koxinga, was a 17th-century Ming loyalist military leader who expelled the Dutch from Taiwan and established a Chinese regime on the island.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Koxinga
this entity surface form:
Zheng Chenggong
this entity surface form:
Koxinga
this entity surface form:
Zheng Chenggong
this entity surface form:
Koxinga
this entity surface form:
Koxinga
this entity surface form:
Zheng Chenggong
this entity surface form:
Koxinga
this entity surface form:
Zheng Chenggong
this entity surface form:
Zheng Zhilong
this entity surface form:
Zheng Zhilong
subject surface form:
Zheng Chenggong
this entity surface form:
Zheng Chenggong
subject surface form:
Zheng Chenggong
this entity surface form:
Koxinga
subject surface form:
Zheng Chenggong
this entity surface form:
Zheng Zhilong
subject surface form:
Zheng Chenggong
this entity surface form:
Cheng Ch'eng-kung
subject surface form:
Zheng Chenggong
this entity surface form:
Cheng Ch'eng-kung (Wade–Giles)