Sun family of Eastern Wu
E704549
The Sun family of Eastern Wu was the ruling clan that founded and controlled the Eastern Wu state during China’s Three Kingdoms period.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sun clan of Jiangdong | 1 |
| Sun family of Eastern Wu canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7947666 — 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: Sun family of Eastern Wu Context triple: [Lu Xun, associatedWith, Sun family of Eastern Wu]
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A.
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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B.
Liu family
The Liu family was the imperial clan of the Han dynasty in China, from which emperors such as Guangwu of Han descended.
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C.
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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D.
Ji clan
The Ji clan was one of the three powerful aristocratic lineages that dominated the politics of the ancient Chinese State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn period.
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E.
Cao family
The Cao family was a powerful warlord clan in late Eastern Han China that founded and ruled the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms 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: Sun family of Eastern Wu Target entity description: The Sun family of Eastern Wu was the ruling clan that founded and controlled the Eastern Wu state during China’s Three Kingdoms period.
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A.
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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B.
Liu family
The Liu family was the imperial clan of the Han dynasty in China, from which emperors such as Guangwu of Han descended.
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C.
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.
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D.
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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E.
Ji clan
The Ji clan was one of the three powerful aristocratic lineages that dominated the politics of the ancient Chinese State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese clan
ⓘ
noble family ⓘ ruling clan ⓘ |
| capitalUnderRule | Jianye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryRuled | Eastern Wu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasticHouseOf | Emperors of Eastern Wu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Han Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstEmperorReignStart | 229 ⓘ |
| firstEmperorReignTitle | Emperor Da of Wu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Sun Jian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founderDeathYear | 191 ⓘ |
| founderTitle | General of the Han dynasty ⓘ |
| foundingEmperorFromClan | Sun Quan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedAs | hereditary monarchy ⓘ |
| governedTerritories |
parts of present-day Anhui
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parts of present-day Fujian ⓘ parts of present-day Jiangsu ⓘ parts of present-day Jiangxi ⓘ parts of present-day Zhejiang ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Three Kingdoms period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSource | Records of the Three Kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| lastEmperorFromClan | Sun Hao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastEmperorReignEnd | 280 ⓘ |
| militaryTradition | naval warfare on Yangtze River ⓘ |
| notableAlliance | alliance with Liu Bei against Cao Cao ⓘ |
| notableBattleInvolvingClan | Battle of Red Cliffs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Sun Ce
NERFINISHED
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Sun Hao NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Jian NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Liang NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Quan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Xiu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overthrownBy | Jin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalRival |
Cao Wei
NERFINISHED
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Shu Han NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | hereditary ruling house ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | monarchy ⓘ |
| powerBase |
Jiangdong commanderies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
lower Yangtze region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorRegime | Han dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Jiangdong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondGenerationLeader | Sun Ce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateFounded | Eastern Wu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateFoundedYear | 222 ⓘ |
| stateProclaimedImperialYear | 229 ⓘ |
| successorRegime | Western Jin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| thirdGenerationLeader | Sun Quan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Sun family of Eastern Wu Description of subject: The Sun family of Eastern Wu was the ruling clan that founded and controlled the Eastern Wu state during China’s Three Kingdoms period.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.