Ma Dai
E673476
Ma Dai was a military general of the state of Shu Han during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for his role in Zhuge Liang’s Northern Expeditions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ma Dai canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7524082 — 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: Ma Dai Context triple: [Ma Su, sibling, Ma Dai]
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A.
Zhang Fei
Zhang Fei was a famed military general and sworn brother of Liu Bei who served the state of Shu Han during China’s Three Kingdoms era, renowned for his bravery, ferocity in battle, and larger-than-life personality.
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B.
Shu Chien
Shu Chien is a renowned Chinese-American physiologist and bioengineer recognized for pioneering contributions to cardiovascular biomechanics and microcirculation research.
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C.
Deng Ai
Deng Ai was a prominent Shu-Han–born general of the state of Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms era, best known for his bold campaign that led to the conquest of Shu.
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D.
Zhuge Jin
Zhuge Jin was a prominent statesman and military general of the Eastern Wu kingdom during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known also as the elder brother of the famed strategist Zhuge Liang.
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E.
Gan Ning
Gan Ning was a famed Chinese military general and former pirate of the late Eastern Han dynasty who became one of the most daring and celebrated officers serving the warlord Sun Quan.
- 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: Ma Dai Target entity description: Ma Dai was a military general of the state of Shu Han during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for his role in Zhuge Liang’s Northern Expeditions.
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A.
Zhang Fei
Zhang Fei was a famed military general and sworn brother of Liu Bei who served the state of Shu Han during China’s Three Kingdoms era, renowned for his bravery, ferocity in battle, and larger-than-life personality.
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B.
Shu Chien
Shu Chien is a renowned Chinese-American physiologist and bioengineer recognized for pioneering contributions to cardiovascular biomechanics and microcirculation research.
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C.
Deng Ai
Deng Ai was a prominent Shu-Han–born general of the state of Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms era, best known for his bold campaign that led to the conquest of Shu.
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D.
Zhuge Jin
Zhuge Jin was a prominent statesman and military general of the Eastern Wu kingdom during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known also as the elder brother of the famed strategist Zhuge Liang.
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E.
Gan Ning
Gan Ning was a famed Chinese military general and former pirate of the late Eastern Han dynasty who became one of the most daring and celebrated officers serving the warlord Sun Quan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shu Han general
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historical figure ⓘ military general ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeDuring | Zhuge Liang's Northern Expeditions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| allegiance | Shu Han NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedState | Shu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ma Chao
NERFINISHED
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Zhuge Liang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | historical records of the Three Kingdoms period ⓘ |
| category |
Shu Han generals
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Three Kingdoms people ⓘ |
| clan | Ma clan of Xiliang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Shu Han NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Shu Han NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Three Kingdoms era
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
late Eastern Han dynasty ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Han Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalizedIn | Romance of the Three Kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | real person ⓘ |
| historicalText |
Records of the Three Kingdoms
NERFINISHED
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Sanguozhi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| militaryAffiliation | Shu army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| nativeRegion | Liang Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableBattle | Northern Expeditions against Cao Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | participation in Zhuge Liang's Northern Expeditions ⓘ |
| occupation | general ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Romance of the Three Kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Sichuan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Ma Chao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | field commander ⓘ |
| servedIn | Shu Han NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
Liu Bei
NERFINISHED
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Liu Shan NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhuge Liang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Three Kingdoms period ⓘ |
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: Ma Dai Description of subject: Ma Dai was a military general of the state of Shu Han during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for his role in Zhuge Liang’s Northern Expeditions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.