Hanshu
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Hanshu is an early Chinese historical text, also known as the Book of Han, that records the history of the Western Han dynasty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hanshu canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5459737 — 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: Hanshu Context triple: [Shanshan, mentionedIn, Hanshu]
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A.
Shichahai
Shichahai is a historic scenic area in central Beijing known for its interconnected lakes, traditional hutong neighborhoods, and vibrant cultural and leisure activities.
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B.
Shōryaku
Shōryaku was a Japanese era name (nengō) of the late 10th century, used during the reign of Emperor Shirakawa.
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C.
Shumshu
Shumshu is a small, strategically significant volcanic island at the northern end of the Kuril Islands chain, near the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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D.
Shimotsuki
Shimotsuki was a Japanese destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in World War II before being sunk in late 1944.
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E.
Hobokan
Hobokan is an alternative name or spelling for the place or entity known as Hobuck.
- 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: Hanshu Target entity description: Hanshu is an early Chinese historical text, also known as the Book of Han, that records the history of the Western Han dynasty.
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A.
Shichahai
Shichahai is a historic scenic area in central Beijing known for its interconnected lakes, traditional hutong neighborhoods, and vibrant cultural and leisure activities.
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B.
Shōryaku
Shōryaku was a Japanese era name (nengō) of the late 10th century, used during the reign of Emperor Shirakawa.
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C.
Shumshu
Shumshu is a small, strategically significant volcanic island at the northern end of the Kuril Islands chain, near the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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D.
Shimotsuki
Shimotsuki was a Japanese destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in World War II before being sunk in late 1944.
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E.
Hobokan
Hobokan is an alternative name or spelling for the place or entity known as Hobuck.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese historical text
ⓘ
book ⓘ dynastic history ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty | Han dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Ban Gu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| compiledBy | Ban Gu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| completedInDynasty | Eastern Han dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coversPeriodEnd | 25 AD ⓘ |
| coversPeriodStart | 206 BC ⓘ |
| describes |
biographies of Western Han figures
ⓘ
economic history of Western Han ⓘ military campaigns of Western Han ⓘ political history of Western Han ⓘ |
| editor | Ban Gu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsWork | Shiji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
historiography
ⓘ
official history ⓘ |
| hasAlternateTransliteration | Han shu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChineseName | 漢書 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasContributor |
Ban Biao
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ban Zhao NERFINISHED ⓘ Ma Xu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfChapters | 100 ⓘ |
| hasSection |
Annals
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Biographies ⓘ Monographs ⓘ Tables ⓘ Treatises ⓘ |
| hasSignificance | standard history of the Western Han dynasty ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
Book of Han
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hanshu NERFINISHED ⓘ History of the Former Han Dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesBiographyOf |
Emperor Gaozu of Han
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emperor Wu of Han NERFINISHED ⓘ Sima Qian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesTreatiseOn |
astronomy
ⓘ
economy ⓘ geography ⓘ law ⓘ rituals ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Shiji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Twenty-Four Histories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Shiji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordsHistoryOf | Western Han dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeOfCompilation | 1st century AD ⓘ |
| usedAsSourceFor | later Chinese historians ⓘ |
| writtenInLanguage | Classical Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Hanshu Description of subject: Hanshu is an early Chinese historical text, also known as the Book of Han, that records the history of the Western Han dynasty.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.