Guangyun
E541872
Guangyun is an 11th-century Chinese rime dictionary that serves as a major source for reconstructing the phonology of Middle Chinese.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Guangyun canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5690542 — 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: Guangyun Context triple: [Middle Chinese, primarySource, Guangyun]
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A.
Guangyi
Guangyi was a warship that served in China's late 19th-century Beiyang Fleet, one of the Qing dynasty's principal modern naval forces.
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B.
Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
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C.
Guanggu
Guanggu is a major high-tech development zone in Wuhan, China, known as an innovation hub for the optics and electronics industries.
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D.
Guangjia
Guangjia was a warship of China’s late 19th-century Beiyang Fleet, one of the Qing dynasty’s principal modern naval forces.
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E.
Yuanhong
Yuanhong is a Chinese given name that appears in the full name of the historical figure Li Yuanhong.
- 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: Guangyun Target entity description: Guangyun is an 11th-century Chinese rime dictionary that serves as a major source for reconstructing the phonology of Middle Chinese.
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A.
Guangyi
Guangyi was a warship that served in China's late 19th-century Beiyang Fleet, one of the Qing dynasty's principal modern naval forces.
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B.
Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
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C.
Guanggu
Guanggu is a major high-tech development zone in Wuhan, China, known as an innovation hub for the optics and electronics industries.
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D.
Guangjia
Guangjia was a warship of China’s late 19th-century Beiyang Fleet, one of the Qing dynasty’s principal modern naval forces.
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E.
Yuanhong
Yuanhong is a Chinese given name that appears in the full name of the historical figure Li Yuanhong.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese dictionary
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Middle Chinese phonological source ⓘ rime dictionary ⓘ |
| basedOn | Qieyun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| compiledInDynasty | Song dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| genre | dictionary ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
classification by rime
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classification by tone ⓘ fanqie spellings for characters ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | major source for Middle Chinese phonology ⓘ |
| hasPart |
rime categories
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rime tables ⓘ |
| influenced |
later Chinese rime dictionaries
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modern reconstructions of Middle Chinese ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
reconstruction of Middle Chinese phonology
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study of historical Chinese phonology ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Jiyun
NERFINISHED
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Qieyun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scholarlyField |
Chinese historical linguistics
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Sinology ⓘ |
| subject |
Chinese characters
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Chinese phonology ⓘ Middle Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 11th century ⓘ |
| usedBy |
historical linguists
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philologists ⓘ |
| usedFor |
reconstructing Middle Chinese finals
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reconstructing Middle Chinese initials ⓘ reconstructing Middle Chinese tones ⓘ |
| usesSystem | fanqie ⓘ |
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: Guangyun Description of subject: Guangyun is an 11th-century Chinese rime dictionary that serves as a major source for reconstructing the phonology of Middle Chinese.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.