House of Cao
E704538
The House of Cao was the ruling imperial family of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period, founded by Cao Pi after the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| House of Cao canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7947549 — 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: House of Cao Context triple: [Cao Pi, house, House of Cao]
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House of Jiang
The House of Jiang was the ruling clan that established and governed the ancient Chinese state of Qi during the Zhou dynasty period.
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Shu Han
Shu Han was one of the Three Kingdoms of China, a state founded by Liu Bei in the early 3rd century that claimed to continue the legacy of the Han dynasty.
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C.
Sima clan
The Sima clan was a powerful Chinese family that rose to dominance as regents of the Cao Wei state and ultimately founded the Jin dynasty, unifying China in the 3rd century.
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Eastern Wu
Eastern Wu was a powerful kingdom during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for its strong naval forces and control of the lower Yangtze River region.
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E.
Western Wei
Western Wei was a short-lived Chinese dynasty (535–557 CE) that ruled the western part of the former Northern Wei territory during the Northern and Southern dynasties period.
- 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: House of Cao Target entity description: The House of Cao was the ruling imperial family of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period, founded by Cao Pi after the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty.
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A.
House of Jiang
The House of Jiang was the ruling clan that established and governed the ancient Chinese state of Qi during the Zhou dynasty period.
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B.
Shu Han
Shu Han was one of the Three Kingdoms of China, a state founded by Liu Bei in the early 3rd century that claimed to continue the legacy of the Han dynasty.
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C.
Sima clan
The Sima clan was a powerful Chinese family that rose to dominance as regents of the Cao Wei state and ultimately founded the Jin dynasty, unifying China in the 3rd century.
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D.
Eastern Wu
Eastern Wu was a powerful kingdom during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for its strong naval forces and control of the lower Yangtze River region.
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E.
Wei clan
The Wei clan was one of the powerful aristocratic lineages that emerged as an independent state during the breakup of the ancient Chinese kingdom of Jin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
imperial dynasty
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ruling family ⓘ |
| capital |
Luoyang
NERFINISHED
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Xuchang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coreTerritory | Yellow River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryRuled | Cao Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deposedBy | Sima Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Han Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstEmperorReignTitle | Emperor Wen of Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formalStateName | Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Cao Pi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founderFather | Cao Cao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founderFatherTitle | King of Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingEmperor | Cao Pi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | hereditary monarchy ⓘ |
| hasDynasticSurname | Cao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Three Kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalName | Cao Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| lastEmperor | Cao Huan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastEmperorReignTitle | Emperor Yuan of Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legitimacyClaim | successor of Eastern Han ⓘ |
| militaryBaseOfPower | Cao Cao’s warlord regime ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Cao family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Cao Cao
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cao Fang NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Huan NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Mao NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Pi NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Rui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRivalState |
Eastern Wu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shu Han NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overthrownBy | Jin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | centralized bureaucracy ⓘ |
| predecessorState | Eastern Han dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryBeliefSystem | Confucianism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryReligion | Chinese folk religion ⓘ |
| recordedIn |
Book of Jin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Records of the Three Kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Northern China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignBegan | 220 ⓘ |
| reignEnded | 265 ⓘ |
| reignPeriod | Three Kingdoms period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roseFromOffice | Han chancellor’s family ⓘ |
| secondEmperor | Cao Rui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondEmperorReignTitle | Emperor Ming of Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorState | Western Jin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedImperialTitle | Huangdi 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: House of Cao Description of subject: The House of Cao was the ruling imperial family of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period, founded by Cao Pi after the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.