Sima Yan
E701614
Sima Yan was the founding emperor of the Jin dynasty in China, known for ending the Three Kingdoms period by unifying the realm after overthrowing the state of Cao Wei.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sima Yan canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7877851 — 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: Sima Yan Context triple: [Cao Wei, overthrownBy, Sima Yan]
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A.
Wei Lihuang
Wei Lihuang was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general best known for his leadership of Chinese forces against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
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B.
Li Zhao
Li Zhao was the wife of former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang and is known primarily for her role as his spouse during his prominent political career.
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C.
Liu Tsong
Liu Tsong, better known by her stage name Anna May Wong, was a pioneering Chinese American film actress and the first major Asian American movie star in Hollywood.
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D.
Pan Yunduan
Pan Yunduan was a Ming dynasty official best known for commissioning and building Shanghai’s famous Yu Garden as a private retreat for his family.
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E.
Shen Yiqin
Shen Yiqin is a Chinese politician who serves as a senior national leader and prominent advocate for women's affairs in 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: Sima Yan Target entity description: Sima Yan was the founding emperor of the Jin dynasty in China, known for ending the Three Kingdoms period by unifying the realm after overthrowing the state of Cao Wei.
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A.
Wei Lihuang
Wei Lihuang was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general best known for his leadership of Chinese forces against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
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B.
Li Zhao
Li Zhao was the wife of former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang and is known primarily for her role as his spouse during his prominent political career.
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C.
Liu Tsong
Liu Tsong, better known by her stage name Anna May Wong, was a pioneering Chinese American film actress and the first major Asian American movie star in Hollywood.
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D.
Pan Yunduan
Pan Yunduan was a Ming dynasty official best known for commissioning and building Shanghai’s famous Yu Garden as a private retreat for his family.
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E.
Shen Yiqin
Shen Yiqin is a Chinese politician who serves as a senior national leader and prominent advocate for women's affairs in China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese monarch
ⓘ
Jin dynasty emperor ⓘ emperor ⓘ founder of a dynasty ⓘ |
| ascendedThroneBy | usurping the throne of Cao Wei ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Luoyang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 236 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Jianling (tomb of Emperor Wu of Jin) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capitalDuringReign | Luoyang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryRuled | Jin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| courtesyName | Anshi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Luoyang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathYear | 290 ⓘ |
| dynastyFounded | Jin dynasty (Western Jin) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Three Kingdoms period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western Jin period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eraNameUsed |
Taishi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Xianxi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Sima Zhao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfather | Sima Yi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
3rd century
ⓘ
4th century ⓘ |
| house | House of Sima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ending the Three Kingdoms period
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founding the Jin dynasty ⓘ overthrowing the state of Cao Wei ⓘ unifying China in 280 ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Wang Yuanji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitleBeforeAccession | Prince of Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | conquest of Eastern Wu in 280 ⓘ |
| personalName | Sima Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posthumousName | Emperor Wu of Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posthumousTempleTitle | Emperor Wu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorState | Cao Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEndYear | 290 ⓘ |
| reignName |
Taishi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Xianxi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignStartYear | 266 ⓘ |
| reignTitle | Emperor Wu of Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Chinese folk religion ⓘ |
| successor | Sima Zhong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorStateUnified | Jin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| templeName | Shizu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleAfterFoundingJin | Emperor of Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| unifiedRegions | former territories of Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu ⓘ |
| usurpedFrom | Cao Huan 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: Sima Yan Description of subject: Sima Yan was the founding emperor of the Jin dynasty in China, known for ending the Three Kingdoms period by unifying the realm after overthrowing the state of Cao Wei.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.