Pei Commandery
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Pei Commandery was an administrative division in ancient China, located in what is now northern Jiangsu and southern Shandong, historically notable as the home region of several prominent Han and Three Kingdoms figures.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pei Commandery canonical | 1 |
| Yingchuan Commandery | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7947541 — 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: Pei Commandery Context triple: [Cao Pi, birthPlace, Pei Commandery]
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A.
Nanyang Commandery
Nanyang Commandery was an important administrative region in ancient China, located in what is now southern Henan Province and historically known as the birthplace of Emperor Guangwu of Han.
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B.
Hexi District
Hexi District is a central urban district of Tianjin, China, known for its commercial areas, educational institutions, and cultural sites along the Hai River.
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C.
Yuezhou
Yuezhou is the historical name of the city now known as Yueyang, an important cultural and transport hub in Hunan Province, China.
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D.
Jianye
Jianye is an ancient name for the city now known as Nanjing, a historically significant capital in several Chinese dynasties.
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E.
State of Qi
The State of Qi was a powerful ancient Chinese kingdom during the Zhou dynasty, noted for its economic strength, political reforms, and cultural influence among the Warring States.
- 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: Pei Commandery Target entity description: Pei Commandery was an administrative division in ancient China, located in what is now northern Jiangsu and southern Shandong, historically notable as the home region of several prominent Han and Three Kingdoms figures.
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A.
Nanyang Commandery
Nanyang Commandery was an important administrative region in ancient China, located in what is now southern Henan Province and historically known as the birthplace of Emperor Guangwu of Han.
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B.
Hexi District
Hexi District is a central urban district of Tianjin, China, known for its commercial areas, educational institutions, and cultural sites along the Hai River.
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C.
Yuezhou
Yuezhou is the historical name of the city now known as Yueyang, an important cultural and transport hub in Hunan Province, China.
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D.
Jianye
Jianye is an ancient name for the city now known as Nanjing, a historically significant capital in several Chinese dynasties.
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E.
State of Qi
The State of Qi was a powerful ancient Chinese kingdom during the Zhou dynasty, noted for its economic strength, political reforms, and cultural influence among the Warring States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commandery of ancient China
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former administrative division ⓘ |
| abolishedAsAdministrativeUnit | yes ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | Pei County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| administrativeHierarchyLevel | second-level division under the command of the central government ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Dong Commandery
NERFINISHED
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Jiujiang Commandery NERFINISHED ⓘ Linhuai Commandery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Pei County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Commanderies of the Han dynasty
ⓘ
Historical regions of China ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| existedDuring |
Han dynasty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Qin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ Three Kingdoms period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedBy | commandery administrator ⓘ |
| hadPopulation | hundreds of thousands during Eastern Han (approximate) ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | East China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
birthplace of Liu Bang, founder of the Han dynasty
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important recruitment area during late Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms ⓘ power base for early Han leaders ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being home region of several prominent Han figures
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being home region of several prominent Three Kingdoms figures ⓘ |
| languageOfOfficialUse | Classical Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
northern Jiangsu
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southern Shandong ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricalRegion | Yu Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInThePresentDayTerritoryOf |
Jiangsu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shandong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableResident |
Cao Cao
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cao Pi NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Zhi NERFINISHED ⓘ Fan Kuai NERFINISHED ⓘ Liu Bang NERFINISHED ⓘ Xiao He NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhang Liang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Han dynasty administrative system ⓘ |
| presentDayCoreArea |
Pei County, Jiangsu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tengzhou, Shandong NERFINISHED ⓘ Xuzhou region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Huai River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Huai River system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | commandery ⓘ |
| terrain | plains ⓘ |
| timePeriod | ancient China ⓘ |
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: Pei Commandery Description of subject: Pei Commandery was an administrative division in ancient China, located in what is now northern Jiangsu and southern Shandong, historically notable as the home region of several prominent Han and Three Kingdoms figures.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yingchuan Commandery