Yuanfu
E579848
Yuanfu was the courtesy name of Lin Zexu, the prominent Qing dynasty official known for his role in suppressing the opium trade and helping trigger the First Opium War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yuanfu canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6263190 — 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: Yuanfu Context triple: [Lin Zexu, courtesyName, Yuanfu]
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A.
Yuanzhen
Yuanzhen was the Chinese era name used during the reign of Temür Khan, the second emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
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B.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a late 19th-century Chinese ironclad battleship of the Beiyang Fleet that played a prominent role in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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C.
Yuanhong
Yuanhong is a Chinese given name that appears in the full name of the historical figure Li Yuanhong.
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D.
Yunwen
Yunwen was the personal name of the Jianwen Emperor, a Ming dynasty ruler of China known for his short and turbulent reign and subsequent mysterious disappearance.
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E.
Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
- 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: Yuanfu Target entity description: Yuanfu was the courtesy name of Lin Zexu, the prominent Qing dynasty official known for his role in suppressing the opium trade and helping trigger the First Opium War.
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A.
Yuanzhen
Yuanzhen was the Chinese era name used during the reign of Temür Khan, the second emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
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B.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a late 19th-century Chinese ironclad battleship of the Beiyang Fleet that played a prominent role in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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C.
Yuanhong
Yuanhong is a Chinese given name that appears in the full name of the historical figure Li Yuanhong.
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D.
Yunwen
Yunwen was the personal name of the Jianwen Emperor, a Ming dynasty ruler of China known for his short and turbulent reign and subsequent mysterious disappearance.
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E.
Xuan
Xuan is a Vietnamese surname commonly used as a family name in Vietnam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Qing dynasty official
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courtesy name ⓘ person ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1785-08-30 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Fujian
NERFINISHED
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Fuzhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
Lin Zexu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou
NERFINISHED
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Lin Zexu Memorial Museum in Guangzhou NERFINISHED ⓘ statues in China ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Qing dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| courtesyName | Yuanfu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| courtesyNameOf | Lin Zexu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1850-11-22 ⓘ |
| education | Confucian classical education ⓘ |
| employer | Qing government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | late Qing dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| examSystem | imperial examination system ⓘ |
| familyName | Lin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
administration
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foreign affairs ⓘ law enforcement ⓘ |
| givenName | Zexu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
key figure in modern Chinese history
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symbol of Chinese resistance to foreign imperialism ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | national hero of China ⓘ |
| knownFor |
destruction of opium at Humen
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role in triggering the First Opium War ⓘ suppression of the opium trade ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| monarchServed | Daoguang Emperor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | anti-opium movement ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
First Opium War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Humen Opium Destruction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passedExam | jinshi degree ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Guangdong
NERFINISHED
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Puning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor-General of Huguang
NERFINISHED
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Governor-General of Shaan-Gan NERFINISHED ⓘ Imperial Commissioner NERFINISHED ⓘ Viceroy of Liangguang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Gansu
NERFINISHED
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Guangdong NERFINISHED ⓘ Hubei NERFINISHED ⓘ Hunan NERFINISHED ⓘ Shaanxi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Confucianism ⓘ |
| usedIn | Qing dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote | letter to Queen Victoria on the opium trade ⓘ |
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: Yuanfu Description of subject: Yuanfu was the courtesy name of Lin Zexu, the prominent Qing dynasty official known for his role in suppressing the opium trade and helping trigger the First Opium War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.