Wei-ming Tu
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Wei-ming Tu is a prominent Chinese philosopher and scholar of Confucianism known for his influential work on New Confucian thought and comparative philosophy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wei-ming Tu canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7781153 — 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: Wei-ming Tu Context triple: [Richard Madsen, coAuthor, Wei-ming Tu]
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Tung-Mow Yan
Tung-Mow Yan is a theoretical physicist best known for co-formulating the Drell–Yan process, a fundamental mechanism for lepton pair production in high-energy particle collisions.
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B.
Geling Yan
Geling Yan is a Chinese-American novelist and screenwriter known for her emotionally powerful works that often explore the human impact of war, political upheaval, and social change in modern Chinese history.
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C.
Kuo-Chen Huang
Kuo-Chen Huang was a physicist whose work on electron–phonon coupling in solids led to the formulation of the Huang–Rhys factor in solid-state spectroscopy.
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D.
Xiaodong Chen
Xiaodong Chen is a prominent materials scientist and nanotechnology researcher who serves as editor-in-chief of the journal ACS Nano.
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E.
Chiwei Yu
Chiwei Yu is a small, remote islet in the East China Sea that is part of the disputed Diaoyutai/Senkaku Islands archipelago.
- 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: Wei-ming Tu Target entity description: Wei-ming Tu is a prominent Chinese philosopher and scholar of Confucianism known for his influential work on New Confucian thought and comparative philosophy.
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A.
Tung-Mow Yan
Tung-Mow Yan is a theoretical physicist best known for co-formulating the Drell–Yan process, a fundamental mechanism for lepton pair production in high-energy particle collisions.
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B.
Geling Yan
Geling Yan is a Chinese-American novelist and screenwriter known for her emotionally powerful works that often explore the human impact of war, political upheaval, and social change in modern Chinese history.
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C.
Kuo-Chen Huang
Kuo-Chen Huang was a physicist whose work on electron–phonon coupling in solids led to the formulation of the Huang–Rhys factor in solid-state spectroscopy.
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D.
Xiaodong Chen
Xiaodong Chen is a prominent materials scientist and nanotechnology researcher who serves as editor-in-chief of the journal ACS Nano.
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E.
Chiwei Yu
Chiwei Yu is a small, remote islet in the East China Sea that is part of the disputed Diaoyutai/Senkaku Islands archipelago.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese philosopher
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Confucian scholar ⓘ New Confucian thinker ⓘ philosopher ⓘ scholar ⓘ |
| alternateName | Tu Weiming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Chinese philosophy
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East Asian intellectual history ⓘ |
| birthCountry | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1940-02-25 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Kunming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| degree | PhD in philosophy ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Tunghai University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Harvard University
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National Taiwan University NERFINISHED ⓘ Peking University NERFINISHED ⓘ Princeton University ⓘ University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| familyName | Tu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Confucianism
NERFINISHED
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comparative philosophy ⓘ philosophy ⓘ religious studies ⓘ |
| givenName | Wei-ming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Confucius
NERFINISHED
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Mencius NERFINISHED ⓘ Neo-Confucianism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
New Confucian philosophy
NERFINISHED
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comparative philosophy of religion ⓘ interpretation of Confucian humanism ⓘ modern Confucian thought ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Chinese
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English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
Confucian humanism
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ethics ⓘ intercivilizational dialogue ⓘ philosophy of culture ⓘ |
| movement | New Confucianism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Wei-ming Tu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Centrality and Commonality: An Essay on Confucian Religiousness
NERFINISHED
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Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation NERFINISHED ⓘ Way, Learning, and Politics: Essays on the Confucian Intellectual NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute
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Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University ⓘ Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy ⓘ Professor of Confucian Studies ⓘ |
| religion | Confucianism ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Wei-ming Tu Description of subject: Wei-ming Tu is a prominent Chinese philosopher and scholar of Confucianism known for his influential work on New Confucian thought and comparative philosophy.
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