Xun Kuang
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Xun Kuang, better known as Xunzi, was an influential Warring States–period Confucian philosopher noted for his belief in the innate badness of human nature and the importance of ritual and education.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5696151 — 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: Xun Kuang Context triple: [Xunzi, birthName, Xun Kuang]
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Zhu Houxi
Zhu Houxi was a Ming dynasty imperial prince, known primarily as a son of the Hongzhi Emperor of China.
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B.
Shen Dao
Shen Dao is the ceremonial spirit road leading to the Ming Tombs near Beijing, lined with stone statues and monuments that honor deceased emperors.
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Zigong
Zigong is a historic industrial city in southern Sichuan, China, best known for its ancient salt industry and renowned dinosaur fossil sites.
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D.
Shan Zuchang
Shan Zuchang is a Chinese businessman best known for serving as chairman of English football club West Bromwich Albion.
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Pan Xuan
Pan Xuan was the wife of Chinese revolutionary and intellectual Chen Duxiu, a key figure in the May Fourth Movement and co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party.
- 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: Xun Kuang Target entity description: Xun Kuang, better known as Xunzi, was an influential Warring States–period Confucian philosopher noted for his belief in the innate badness of human nature and the importance of ritual and education.
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A.
Zhu Houxi
Zhu Houxi was a Ming dynasty imperial prince, known primarily as a son of the Hongzhi Emperor of China.
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B.
Shen Dao
Shen Dao is the ceremonial spirit road leading to the Ming Tombs near Beijing, lined with stone statues and monuments that honor deceased emperors.
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C.
Zigong
Zigong is a historic industrial city in southern Sichuan, China, best known for its ancient salt industry and renowned dinosaur fossil sites.
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D.
Shan Zuchang
Shan Zuchang is a Chinese businessman best known for serving as chairman of English football club West Bromwich Albion.
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E.
Pan Xuan
Pan Xuan was the wife of Chinese revolutionary and intellectual Chen Duxiu, a key figure in the May Fourth Movement and co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confucian philosopher
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Warring States–period figure ⓘ person ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| activeIn | Jixia Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | State of Zhao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ancient China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| doctrine |
emphasis on deliberate effort (wei)
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human nature is bad ⓘ importance of education ⓘ importance of ritual (li) ⓘ role of sage-kings in moral transformation ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Jixia Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Warring States period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| floruit | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
Hsün Tzu
NERFINISHED
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Xun Qing NERFINISHED ⓘ Xunzi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Han Fei
NERFINISHED
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Legalist philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ Li Si NERFINISHED ⓘ later Confucianism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Confucius
NERFINISHED
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Mencius NERFINISHED ⓘ Mozi NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhuangzi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
ethics
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philosophical anthropology ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ ritual theory ⓘ |
| movement |
Chinese philosophy
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Confucianism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Xunzi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
philosopher
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teacher ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | Confucianism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | libationer at the Jixia Academy ⓘ |
| tradition | Ru (Confucian) tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| viewOnHeaven | Heaven is amoral and follows constant patterns ⓘ |
| viewOnLanguage | importance of rectification of names (zhengming) ⓘ |
| viewOnLaw | advocated clear standards and punishments under moral guidance ⓘ |
| viewOnMusic | music as means of moral cultivation ⓘ |
| viewOnRitual | ritual as tool to transform desires ⓘ |
| workLocation |
State of Chu
NERFINISHED
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State of Qi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Xun Kuang Description of subject: Xun Kuang, better known as Xunzi, was an influential Warring States–period Confucian philosopher noted for his belief in the innate badness of human nature and the importance of ritual and education.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.