Sun clan
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The Sun clan was the ruling family of the Eastern Wu state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, producing warlords such as Sun Quan who established and led the regime.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sun clan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7384447 — 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: Sun clan Context triple: [Eastern Wu, hasDynasty, Sun clan]
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A.
Ji clan
The Ji clan was one of the three powerful aristocratic lineages that dominated the politics of the ancient Chinese State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn period.
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B.
Mengsun clan
The Mengsun clan was one of the prominent aristocratic lineages in the ancient Chinese State of Lu, influential in its political and social affairs.
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C.
Naya clan
The Naya clan is an ancient Jain lineage traditionally associated with the family background of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.
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D.
Javanshir clan
The Javanshir clan was a prominent Azerbaijani noble family that played a significant political and military role in the Karabakh region.
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E.
Sue clan
The Sue clan was a Japanese samurai family that held feudal power during the Sengoku period before its influence waned under later domains such as Chōshū.
- 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: Sun clan Target entity description: The Sun clan was the ruling family of the Eastern Wu state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, producing warlords such as Sun Quan who established and led the regime.
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A.
Ji clan
The Ji clan was one of the three powerful aristocratic lineages that dominated the politics of the ancient Chinese State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn period.
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B.
Mengsun clan
The Mengsun clan was one of the prominent aristocratic lineages in the ancient Chinese State of Lu, influential in its political and social affairs.
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C.
Naya clan
The Naya clan is an ancient Jain lineage traditionally associated with the family background of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.
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D.
Javanshir clan
The Javanshir clan was a prominent Azerbaijani noble family that played a significant political and military role in the Karabakh region.
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E.
Sue clan
The Sue clan was a Japanese samurai family that held feudal power during the Sengoku period before its influence waned under later domains such as Chōshū.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese clan
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ruling family ⓘ |
| countryRuled | Eastern Wu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Han Chinese aristocracy ⓘ |
| dynasticRole | founding family of Eastern Wu ⓘ |
| familyName | Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founderOfRegime | Sun Quan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedFrom |
Jianye
NERFINISHED
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Wuchang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Late Eastern Han dynasty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Three Kingdoms period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSource |
Records of the Three Kingdoms
NERFINISHED
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
establishing Eastern Wu state
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ruling Jiangdong region ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| militaryTradition | naval warfare on the Yangtze River ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Sun Ce
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sun Hao NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Jian NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Liang NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Quan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Xiu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposedState |
Cao Wei
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shu Han NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Three Kingdoms period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | warlord family ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | monarchy ⓘ |
| powerBase |
Southeastern China
NERFINISHED
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Yangtze River delta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorPowerBaseOf |
Sun Ce
NERFINISHED
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Sun Jian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| preeminentWarlordLineage | Eastern Wu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producedWarlord |
Sun Ce
NERFINISHED
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Sun Jian NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Quan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Jiangdong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Chinese folk religion ⓘ |
| successorStateAfterFall | Jin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleHeldByMembers |
Emperor of Wu
NERFINISHED
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King of Wu 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: Sun clan Description of subject: The Sun clan was the ruling family of the Eastern Wu state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, producing warlords such as Sun Quan who established and led the regime.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.