Former Qin
E429971
Former Qin was a short-lived but powerful Di-led dynasty during China's Sixteen Kingdoms period that briefly unified much of northern China in the 4th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Former Qin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4299101 — 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: Former Qin Context triple: [Northern Wei dynasty, precededBy, Former Qin]
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A.
state of Qin
The state of Qin was an ancient Chinese kingdom in the western region of China that rose to power during the Warring States period and ultimately unified China, laying the foundation for the Qin dynasty.
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B.
Qin dynasty
The Qin dynasty was the first imperial dynasty of a unified China, known for centralizing power, standardizing writing and measurements, and initiating construction of the Great Wall.
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C.
State of Han
The State of Han was a minor Warring States–period kingdom in ancient China, situated in central China and often overshadowed and pressured by more powerful neighbors such as Qin and Chu.
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D.
State of Yue
The State of Yue was an ancient Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and early Warring States periods, known for its maritime strength and legendary rivalry with the State of Wu.
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E.
State of Chu
The State of Chu was a powerful and culturally influential ancient Chinese kingdom during the Zhou dynasty, known for its distinctive art, rituals, and major role in the Warring States period.
- 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: Former Qin Target entity description: Former Qin was a short-lived but powerful Di-led dynasty during China's Sixteen Kingdoms period that briefly unified much of northern China in the 4th century.
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A.
state of Qin
The state of Qin was an ancient Chinese kingdom in the western region of China that rose to power during the Warring States period and ultimately unified China, laying the foundation for the Qin dynasty.
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B.
Qin dynasty
The Qin dynasty was the first imperial dynasty of a unified China, known for centralizing power, standardizing writing and measurements, and initiating construction of the Great Wall.
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C.
State of Han
The State of Han was a minor Warring States–period kingdom in ancient China, situated in central China and often overshadowed and pressured by more powerful neighbors such as Qin and Chu.
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D.
State of Yue
The State of Yue was an ancient Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and early Warring States periods, known for its maritime strength and legendary rivalry with the State of Wu.
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E.
State of Chu
The State of Chu was a powerful and culturally influential ancient Chinese kingdom during the Zhou dynasty, known for its distinctive art, rituals, and major role in the Warring States period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sixteen Kingdoms state
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ancient Chinese state ⓘ dynasty ⓘ |
| capital |
Chang'an
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Xi'an area ⓘ |
| causeOfDecline | defeat at Fei River in 383 ⓘ |
| causeOfFragmentation |
internal rebellions
ⓘ
uprisings by subject peoples ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| controlledTerritory |
Gansu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guanzhong NERFINISHED ⓘ Hebei NERFINISHED ⓘ Henan NERFINISHED ⓘ Shaanxi NERFINISHED ⓘ Sichuan (briefly) NERFINISHED ⓘ most of northern China ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| defeatedByInBattle | Eastern Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defeatIn | Battle of Fei River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 394 ⓘ |
| ethnicCompositionOfPopulation | Han Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicCompositionOfRulingElite | Di NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicLeadership | Di people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstRuler | Fu Jian (Emperor Jingzhao) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder |
Fu Jian (Emperor Jingzhao)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fu Jiàn (苻健) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentForm |
hereditary monarchy
ⓘ
monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Eastern Jin period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sixteen Kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Classical Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastRuler | Fu Deng NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorBattle | Battle of Fei River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
brief unification of northern China
ⓘ
conquest of Former Liang ⓘ conquest of Former Yan ⓘ |
| notableRuler |
Fu Deng
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fu Jian (Emperor Xuanzhao, r. 357–385) NERFINISHED ⓘ Fu Sheng NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of China
ⓘ
period of political fragmentation in China ⓘ |
| peakTerritorialExtent | c. 383 ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Former Liang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Later Zhao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Northern China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Chinese folk religion ⓘ Daoism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 351 ⓘ |
| successor |
Later Qin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Later Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Liang NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Qin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 4th century ⓘ |
| usedTitle |
Emperor (Huangdi)
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Heavenly King (Tianwang) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Chinese characters ⓘ |
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: Former Qin Description of subject: Former Qin was a short-lived but powerful Di-led dynasty during China's Sixteen Kingdoms period that briefly unified much of northern China in the 4th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.