Li-jen
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Li-jen is the given name of Sun Li-jen, a prominent Chinese Nationalist general known for his leadership during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Li-jen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5668509 — 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: Li-jen Context triple: [Sun Li-jen, givenName, Li-jen]
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A.
Ma Ying-jeou
Ma Ying-jeou is a Taiwanese politician and former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) known for his leadership of the Kuomintang and efforts to improve cross-strait relations with mainland China.
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B.
Chen Shui-bian
Chen Shui-bian is a Taiwanese politician and former president of the Republic of China (Taiwan), known for his pro-independence stance and leadership of the Democratic Progressive Party.
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C.
Wu Den-yih
Wu Den-yih is a Taiwanese politician who served as Vice President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and previously as Premier and Mayor of Kaohsiung.
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D.
Chiang Hsiao-wen
Chiang Hsiao-wen was the eldest son of former Republic of China President Chiang Ching-kuo and a member of Taiwan’s influential Chiang political family.
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E.
Wu Po-hsiung
Wu Po-hsiung is a Taiwanese politician who served as chairman of the Kuomintang and held several key government posts, including Minister of the Interior and Mayor of Taipei.
- 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: Li-jen Target entity description: Li-jen is the given name of Sun Li-jen, a prominent Chinese Nationalist general known for his leadership during World War II.
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A.
Ma Ying-jeou
Ma Ying-jeou is a Taiwanese politician and former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) known for his leadership of the Kuomintang and efforts to improve cross-strait relations with mainland China.
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B.
Chen Shui-bian
Chen Shui-bian is a Taiwanese politician and former president of the Republic of China (Taiwan), known for his pro-independence stance and leadership of the Democratic Progressive Party.
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C.
Wu Den-yih
Wu Den-yih is a Taiwanese politician who served as Vice President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and previously as Premier and Mayor of Kaohsiung.
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D.
Chiang Hsiao-wen
Chiang Hsiao-wen was the eldest son of former Republic of China President Chiang Ching-kuo and a member of Taiwan’s influential Chiang political family.
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E.
Wu Po-hsiung
Wu Po-hsiung is a Taiwanese politician who served as chairman of the Kuomintang and held several key government posts, including Minister of the Interior and Mayor of Taipei.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Republic of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Order of Blue Sky and White Sun
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Order of the Cloud and Banner NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Legion of Merit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1900-12-08 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Wuzhi Mountain Military Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDetention | accusations of plotting a coup ⓘ |
| child |
Sun An-chi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sun An-ping NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
Chinese Civil War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) ⓘ
surface form:
Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Republic of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1990-11-19 ⓘ |
| detainedBy | Chiang Kai-shek government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| detentionEnd | 1988 ⓘ |
| detentionStart | 1955 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Tsinghua University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Virginia Military Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Li-jen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | General Sun Li-jen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Kuomintang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
National Revolutionary Army
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Republic of China Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| name | Sun Li-jen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | 孫立人 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Rommel of the East NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | leadership during World War II ⓘ |
| notableWork | Burma campaign operations against Japanese forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
general
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Yenangyaung
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Burma Campaign (1942–1945) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lujiang County, Anhui, Qing Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Taipei, Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
commander in the Chinese Expeditionary Force
ⓘ
commander of the New 1st Army ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Zhang Meizhen 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: Li-jen Description of subject: Li-jen is the given name of Sun Li-jen, a prominent Chinese Nationalist general known for his leadership during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.