Peiyang University

E643851

Peiyang University was the original name of Tianjin University, one of China’s earliest and most prestigious modern higher education institutions.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Beiyang University 1
Peiyang University canonical 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf higher education institution
university
academicDiscipline engineering
management
science
technology
affiliation Imperial Chinese government NERFINISHED
campusType urban campus
continent Asia
country China
educationLevel tertiary education
educationSystem modern Western-style university system
formerName Peiyang University NERFINISHED
foundedBy Sheng Xuanhuai NERFINISHED
foundingDate 1895
governedBy Chinese authorities
hasAlternativeTransliteration Beiyang University NERFINISHED
hasAlumniType engineers
government officials
industrial leaders
scientists
hasCampusCity Tianjin NERFINISHED
hasEducationalRole training technical professionals for China’s modernization
hasFocus applied sciences
engineering practice
hasHistoricalNameType romanized name
hasLegacy forms the historical foundation of Tianjin University
hasMottoLanguage Chinese
hasSuccessor Tianjin University NERFINISHED
historicalSignificance early center for engineering and technical training in China
pioneer of modern higher education in China
inception 1895
isPartOfHistoryOf Chinese higher education
Tianjin University NERFINISHED
languageOfInstruction Chinese
English
locatedIn Tianjin NERFINISHED
locatedInAdministrativeDivision Tianjin Municipality NERFINISHED
locatedInTimePeriod late Qing dynasty
notableFor being one of the earliest modern universities in China
engineering education in China
operatedInCentury 19th century
20th century
originalNameOf Tianjin University NERFINISHED
partOf modern Chinese higher education system
region North China NERFINISHED
renamedAs Tianjin University NERFINISHED
sector public education

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: Peiyang University
Description of subject: Peiyang University was the original name of Tianjin University, one of China’s earliest and most prestigious modern higher education institutions.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tianjin University formerName Peiyang University
Sheng Xuanhuai founded Peiyang University
this entity surface form: Beiyang University