Kingdom of Wei (Three Kingdoms, regional capital)
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The Kingdom of Wei was one of the Three Kingdoms of China, a powerful northern state that emerged from the late Eastern Han dynasty and played a central role in the Three Kingdoms period’s political and military struggles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kingdom of Wei (Three Kingdoms, regional capital) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5925537 — 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: Kingdom of Wei (Three Kingdoms, regional capital) Context triple: [Kaifeng, servedAsCapitalOf, Kingdom of Wei (Three Kingdoms, regional capital)]
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State of Han
The State of Han was a minor Warring States–period kingdom in ancient China, situated in central China and often overshadowed and pressured by more powerful neighbors such as Qin and Chu.
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state of Wei
The state of Wei was a major Chinese polity during the Warring States period, known for its early military strength, legalist reforms, and rivalry with other powerful states like Qin, Zhao, and Han.
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C.
State of Qi
The State of Qi was a powerful ancient Chinese kingdom during the Zhou dynasty, noted for its economic strength, political reforms, and cultural influence among the Warring States.
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State of Wu
The State of Wu was an ancient Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn period, known for its powerful military, naval strength, and rivalry with the State of Yue.
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E.
Shu Han
Shu Han was one of the Three Kingdoms of China, a state founded by Liu Bei in the early 3rd century that claimed to continue the legacy of the Han dynasty.
- 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: Kingdom of Wei (Three Kingdoms, regional capital) Target entity description: The Kingdom of Wei was one of the Three Kingdoms of China, a powerful northern state that emerged from the late Eastern Han dynasty and played a central role in the Three Kingdoms period’s political and military struggles.
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A.
State of Han
The State of Han was a minor Warring States–period kingdom in ancient China, situated in central China and often overshadowed and pressured by more powerful neighbors such as Qin and Chu.
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B.
state of Wei
The state of Wei was a major Chinese polity during the Warring States period, known for its early military strength, legalist reforms, and rivalry with other powerful states like Qin, Zhao, and Han.
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C.
State of Qi
The State of Qi was a powerful ancient Chinese kingdom during the Zhou dynasty, noted for its economic strength, political reforms, and cultural influence among the Warring States.
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D.
State of Wu
The State of Wu was an ancient Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn period, known for its powerful military, naval strength, and rivalry with the State of Yue.
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E.
Shu Han
Shu Han was one of the Three Kingdoms of China, a state founded by Liu Bei in the early 3rd century that claimed to continue the legacy of the Han dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese kingdom
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historical state ⓘ successor state of the Eastern Han dynasty ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter |
Luoyang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Xuchang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Cao Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital |
Luoyang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Xuchang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commonLanguage | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| conventionalLongName | Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| engagedIn | Three Kingdoms wars ⓘ |
| era | Three Kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| establishedFrom | late Eastern Han dynasty ⓘ |
| firstEmperor | Cao Pi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Cao Cao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType |
hereditary monarchy
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monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
central participant in Three Kingdoms political struggles
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major military power in northern China ⓘ |
| lastEmperor | Cao Huan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableGeneral |
Cao Ren
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Xu Huang NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhang Liao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableOfficial | Sima Yi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRuler |
Cao Cao
NERFINISHED
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Cao Fang NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Huan NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Mao NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Pi NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Rui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Three Kingdoms period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | dominant northern state ⓘ |
| predecessor | Eastern Han dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Northern China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Chinese folk religion
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Confucianism ⓘ Taoism ⓘ |
| rival |
Kingdom of Shu
NERFINISHED
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Kingdom of Wu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Western Jin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedEraName |
Ganlu
NERFINISHED
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Huangchu NERFINISHED ⓘ Jingchu NERFINISHED ⓘ Jingyuan ⓘ Qinglong ⓘ Taihe 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: Kingdom of Wei (Three Kingdoms, regional capital) Description of subject: The Kingdom of Wei was one of the Three Kingdoms of China, a powerful northern state that emerged from the late Eastern Han dynasty and played a central role in the Three Kingdoms period’s political and military struggles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.