King Cheng of Zhou
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King Cheng of Zhou was an early Western Zhou dynasty ruler in ancient China, known for consolidating royal authority and granting hereditary fiefs to regional clans and nobles.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King Cheng of Zhou canonical | 8 |
| King Cheng of Zhou (as enfeoffing ruler) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7946596 — 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: King Cheng of Zhou Context triple: [Xiong clan, receivedEnfeoffmentFrom, King Cheng of Zhou]
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A.
King Wen of Zhou
King Wen of Zhou was an early Zhou ruler revered as a sage-king whose leadership and reforms laid the groundwork for the Zhou dynasty’s overthrow of the Shang and the establishment of a new political order in ancient China.
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B.
King You of Zhou
King You of Zhou was the last king of the Western Zhou dynasty, infamous for his misrule and the events that led to the dynasty’s collapse.
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C.
King Ping of Zhou
King Ping of Zhou was an early Eastern Zhou monarch who moved the capital east to Luoyang, marking the decline of royal power and the start of the Eastern Zhou period in ancient China.
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D.
King Xian of Zhou
King Xian of Zhou was a late monarch of China’s Zhou dynasty who ruled during its declining Eastern Zhou period.
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E.
King Wu of Zhou
King Wu of Zhou was the founding king of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China, renowned for leading the conquest that ended the Shang dynasty and established a new royal order.
- 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: King Cheng of Zhou Target entity description: King Cheng of Zhou was an early Western Zhou dynasty ruler in ancient China, known for consolidating royal authority and granting hereditary fiefs to regional clans and nobles.
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A.
King Wen of Zhou
King Wen of Zhou was an early Zhou ruler revered as a sage-king whose leadership and reforms laid the groundwork for the Zhou dynasty’s overthrow of the Shang and the establishment of a new political order in ancient China.
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B.
King You of Zhou
King You of Zhou was the last king of the Western Zhou dynasty, infamous for his misrule and the events that led to the dynasty’s collapse.
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C.
King Ping of Zhou
King Ping of Zhou was an early Eastern Zhou monarch who moved the capital east to Luoyang, marking the decline of royal power and the start of the Eastern Zhou period in ancient China.
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D.
King Xian of Zhou
King Xian of Zhou was a late monarch of China’s Zhou dynasty who ruled during its declining Eastern Zhou period.
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E.
King Wu of Zhou
King Wu of Zhou was the founding king of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China, renowned for leading the conquest that ended the Shang dynasty and established a new royal order.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Zhou
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Western Zhou ruler ⓘ |
| associatedCapitalRegion | Wei River valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Mandate of Heaven doctrine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialCustom | royal Zhou burial rites ⓘ |
| capital | Haojing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralizationPolicy | consolidation of royal authority over regional lords ⓘ |
| country | Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Bronze Age China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynastyPhase | Western Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | early 1st millennium BCE ⓘ |
| eraName | none (pre-imperial, no formal era names) ⓘ |
| familyName | Ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | King Wu of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Song NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentForm | feudal monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | ancient China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | Ji clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| implementedPolicy | granting hereditary fiefs to relatives and allies ⓘ |
| knownAs | Zhou Cheng Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Old Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legitimacyBasis | Mandate of Heaven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
consolidating royal authority
ⓘ
granting hereditary fiefs to regional clans and nobles ⓘ strengthening feudal enfeoffment system ⓘ |
| oversaw | distribution of fiefs to Zhou nobles ⓘ |
| personalName | Ji Song NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | hereditary feudal enfeoffment ⓘ |
| posthumousTitle | King Cheng of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | King Wu of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | King Wu of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| realm | Central Plains of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regent |
Duke of Shao
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Duke of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignPeriod | early Western Zhou dynasty ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Chinese ancestral and ritual worship ⓘ |
| role | supreme ruler of the Zhou feudal hierarchy ⓘ |
| royalHouse | House of Ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| son | King Kang of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | King Kang of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | King Kang of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportedBy | Duke of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| templeName | Cheng NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Son of Heaven ⓘ |
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: King Cheng of Zhou Description of subject: King Cheng of Zhou was an early Western Zhou dynasty ruler in ancient China, known for consolidating royal authority and granting hereditary fiefs to regional clans and nobles.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King Cheng of Zhou (as enfeoffing ruler)
subject surface form:
Jin (state)