Confucius
E51982
Confucius was an ancient Chinese philosopher and teacher whose ethical, social, and political ideas became the foundation of Confucianism and deeply shaped East Asian civilization.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Confucius canonical | 50 |
| historical figure Confucius | 1 |
| 仲尼 | 1 |
| 孔丘 | 1 |
| 孔子 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T410348 — 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: Confucius Context triple: [Peng Chun Chang, influencedBy, Confucius]
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A.
He Zizhen
He Zizhen was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist Party member best known as one of Mao Zedong’s wives and a participant in the Long March.
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B.
Kun Huang
Kun Huang was a prominent Chinese physicist and crystallographer known for his influential work in solid-state physics and lattice dynamics.
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C.
Buddha
"Buddha" is a biographical and historical study of Siddhartha Gautama by religious historian Karen Armstrong, exploring the life, teachings, and enduring influence of the Buddha.
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D.
Plato
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, whose dialogues and ideas laid the foundations of Western philosophy.
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E.
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Athenian philosopher renowned as a founder of Western philosophy, known for his method of questioning and his trial and execution in Athens.
- 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: Confucius Target entity description: Confucius was an ancient Chinese philosopher and teacher whose ethical, social, and political ideas became the foundation of Confucianism and deeply shaped East Asian civilization.
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A.
He Zizhen
He Zizhen was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist Party member best known as one of Mao Zedong’s wives and a participant in the Long March.
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B.
Kun Huang
Kun Huang was a prominent Chinese physicist and crystallographer known for his influential work in solid-state physics and lattice dynamics.
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C.
Buddha
"Buddha" is a biographical and historical study of Siddhartha Gautama by religious historian Karen Armstrong, exploring the life, teachings, and enduring influence of the Buddha.
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D.
Plato
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, whose dialogues and ideas laid the foundations of Western philosophy.
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E.
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Athenian philosopher renowned as a founder of Western philosophy, known for his method of questioning and his trial and execution in Athens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (86)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese philosopher
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Confucian scholar ⓘ historical figure ⓘ philosopher ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| birthName |
Confucius
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
孔丘
|
| burialPlace |
Cemetery of Confucius
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Qufu ⓘ |
| child |
Kong He
ⓘ
surface form:
Kong Li
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Zhou dynasty ⓘ |
| courtesyName |
Confucius
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
仲尼
|
| culturalDepiction |
subject of Chinese classics
ⓘ
subject of Confucian temples ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 551 BCE ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 479 BCE ⓘ |
| era | Spring and Autumn period ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| father | Kong He ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
ⓘ
ethics ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ ritual studies ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing |
Temple of Confucius
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surface form:
Confucian temples
|
| honorificTitle |
Most Holy Sage and First Teacher
ⓘ
Most Holy Sage and First Teacher ⓘ
surface form:
Supreme Sage and Foremost Teacher
|
| influenced |
Chinese education
ⓘ
Chinese imperial examination system ⓘ Chinese political thought ⓘ Dong Zhongshu ⓘ East Asian philosophy ⓘ Confucianism ⓘ
surface form:
Japanese Confucianism
Neo-Confucianism ⓘ
surface form:
Korean Confucianism
Mencius ⓘ Neo-Confucianism ⓘ Confucianism ⓘ
surface form:
Vietnamese Confucianism
Wang Yangming ⓘ Xunzi ⓘ Zhu Xi ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Book of Documents
ⓘ
Book of Songs ⓘ Zhou dynasty culture ⓘ Zhou ritual tradition ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| legacy |
foundation of Confucianism
ⓘ
influenced moral education in East Asia ⓘ shaped East Asian civilization ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
education
ⓘ
ethics ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ ritual ⓘ |
| mother | Yan Zhengzai ⓘ |
| movement | Confucianism ⓘ |
| name | Confucius self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Old Chinese ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Confucius
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
孔子
|
| notableIdea |
Doctrine of the Mean
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Junzi ⓘ Li ⓘ Rectification of names ⓘ Ren ⓘ Xiao ⓘ government by virtue ⓘ importance of education ⓘ rule by moral example ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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philosopher ⓘ politician ⓘ scholar ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | Confucianism ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Qufu
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Shandong ⓘ State of Lu ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Qufu
ⓘ
State of Lu ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Minister of Justice of Lu ⓘ |
| religion |
Chinese folk religion
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Confucianism ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
China
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Japan ⓘ Korean Peninsula ⓘ
surface form:
Korea
Viet Nam ⓘ
surface form:
Vietnam
|
| workAttributed |
Analects
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Spring and Autumn Annals ⓘ editing of the Five Classics ⓘ |
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: Confucius Description of subject: Confucius was an ancient Chinese philosopher and teacher whose ethical, social, and political ideas became the foundation of Confucianism and deeply shaped East Asian civilization.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.