The Dragon
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The Dragon is the legendary Chinese table tennis player Ma Long, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most dominant players in the sport’s history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Dragon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7724253 — 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: The Dragon Context triple: [Ma Long, nickName, The Dragon]
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A.
The Dragon
"The Dragon" is a track from Vangelis's 1979 electronic music album "China," blending synthesizer-driven soundscapes with an evocative, atmospheric style.
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B.
The White Dragon
The White Dragon is a science fiction novel in Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series, following the coming-of-age of Lord Jaxom and his unique white dragon Ruth as they challenge tradition and uncover Pern’s deeper mysteries.
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C.
the Oldest Dragon
The Oldest Dragon is an ancient, wise dragon character from the humorous science fiction series "The Norby Chronicles" by Janet and Isaac Asimov.
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D.
the Dragon
The Dragon is a gentle, poetry-loving dragon from Kenneth Grahame’s story “The Reluctant Dragon,” known for preferring friendship and conversation over fighting.
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E.
the Dragon
The Dragon is a symbolic, malevolent figure in the Book of Revelation often interpreted as representing Satan or the ultimate embodiment of evil opposing God and His people.
- 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: The Dragon Target entity description: The Dragon is the legendary Chinese table tennis player Ma Long, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most dominant players in the sport’s history.
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A.
The Dragon
"The Dragon" is a track from Vangelis's 1979 electronic music album "China," blending synthesizer-driven soundscapes with an evocative, atmospheric style.
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B.
The White Dragon
The White Dragon is a science fiction novel in Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series, following the coming-of-age of Lord Jaxom and his unique white dragon Ruth as they challenge tradition and uncover Pern’s deeper mysteries.
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C.
the Oldest Dragon
The Oldest Dragon is an ancient, wise dragon character from the humorous science fiction series "The Norby Chronicles" by Janet and Isaac Asimov.
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D.
the Dragon
The Dragon is a symbolic, malevolent figure in the Book of Revelation often interpreted as representing Satan or the ultimate embodiment of evil opposing God and His people.
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E.
the Dragon
The Dragon is a gentle, poetry-loving dragon from Kenneth Grahame’s story “The Reluctant Dragon,” known for preferring friendship and conversation over fighting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese national
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Olympic athlete ⓘ human ⓘ table tennis player ⓘ |
| AsianChampionships | multiple titles ⓘ |
| AsianGames | multiple gold medals ⓘ |
| club | Shandong Luneng NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coach |
Liu Guoliang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Qin Zhijian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1988-10-20 ⓘ |
| dominantHand | right-handed ⓘ |
| firstReachedWorldNo1 | 2010 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| governingBody | International Table Tennis Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gripStyle | shakehand grip ⓘ |
| heldWorldNo1For | more than 60 months ⓘ |
| knownFor |
consistency
ⓘ
dominance in men’s singles ⓘ longevity at the top level ⓘ |
| league | Chinese Table Tennis Super League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname |
Dragon
NERFINISHED
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The Dragon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| OlympicGames |
2012 Summer Olympics
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2016 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ 2020 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| OlympicGoldMedal |
2012 London men’s team
ⓘ
2016 Rio de Janeiro men’s singles ⓘ 2016 Rio de Janeiro men’s team ⓘ 2020 Tokyo men’s singles ⓘ 2020 Tokyo men’s team ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Anshan, Liaoning, China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playingStyle | offensive ⓘ |
| playsFor | China national table tennis team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
one of the greatest table tennis players of all time
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one of the most dominant players in table tennis history ⓘ |
| specialty |
backhand topspin
ⓘ
forehand loop ⓘ |
| sport | table tennis ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
excellent footwork
ⓘ
powerful forehand ⓘ strong backhand ⓘ strong serve and receive game ⓘ |
| WorldChampionshipsTitle |
2015 men’s singles
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2017 men’s singles ⓘ 2019 men’s singles ⓘ multiple men’s team titles ⓘ |
| WorldCupTitle | multiple men’s singles World Cups ⓘ |
| worldRankingPeak | ITTF world no. 1 ⓘ |
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: The Dragon Description of subject: The Dragon is the legendary Chinese table tennis player Ma Long, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most dominant players in the sport’s history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.