Sun Yan
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Sun Yan is a member of the prominent Sun family of modern Chinese political history, related to Sun Fo, the son of revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sun Yan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7588870 — 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 Yan Context triple: [Sun Fo, relative, Sun Yan]
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A.
Sun Wan
Sun Wan is a lesser-known member of the prominent Sun family of modern Chinese politics, related to Sun Fo and thus part of the lineage of revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen.
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B.
Li Hai
Li Hai is a Chinese human rights activist known for his pro-democracy efforts and imprisonment in China, for which he received international recognition.
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C.
Cui Hao
Cui Hao was a prominent poet of the Tang dynasty in China, best known for his evocative landscape and frontier poems.
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D.
Li Cang
Li Cang was a Western Han dynasty noble and Chancellor of the Changsha Kingdom, best known as the tomb occupant associated with the famous Mawangdui archaeological site.
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E.
Sun Ke
Sun Ke, also known as Sun Fo, was a prominent Chinese politician and son of Sun Yat-sen who held key governmental positions in the Republic of China.
- 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 Yan Target entity description: Sun Yan is a member of the prominent Sun family of modern Chinese political history, related to Sun Fo, the son of revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen.
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A.
Sun Wan
Sun Wan is a lesser-known member of the prominent Sun family of modern Chinese politics, related to Sun Fo and thus part of the lineage of revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen.
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B.
Li Hai
Li Hai is a Chinese human rights activist known for his pro-democracy efforts and imprisonment in China, for which he received international recognition.
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C.
Cui Hao
Cui Hao was a prominent poet of the Tang dynasty in China, best known for his evocative landscape and frontier poems.
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D.
Li Cang
Li Cang was a Western Han dynasty noble and Chancellor of the Changsha Kingdom, best known as the tomb occupant associated with the famous Mawangdui archaeological site.
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E.
Sun Ke
Sun Ke, also known as Sun Fo, was a prominent Chinese politician and son of Sun Yat-sen who held key governmental positions in the Republic of China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
member of political family
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person ⓘ politician ⓘ revolutionary leader ⓘ |
| childOf | Sun Yat-sen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
China
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China ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName |
Sun
NERFINISHED
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Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Sun family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Sun family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Sun Fo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sun Yat-sen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Sun Fo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sun Yat-sen 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 Yan Description of subject: Sun Yan is a member of the prominent Sun family of modern Chinese political history, related to Sun Fo, the son of revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.