Luo Guanzhong
E704551
Luo Guanzhong was a 14th-century Chinese writer traditionally credited as the author of the classic historical novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Luo Guanzhong canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7947697 — 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: Luo Guanzhong Context triple: [Records of the Three Kingdoms, usedAsSourceBy, Luo Guanzhong]
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A.
Wu Cheng'en
Wu Cheng'en was a Ming dynasty Chinese novelist and poet best known as the putative author of the classic fantasy novel "Journey to the West."
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B.
Sima Qian
Sima Qian was an eminent Chinese historian of the Former Han dynasty, best known for authoring the foundational historical text "Records of the Grand Historian" (Shiji).
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C.
Wei He
Wei He is the Chinese name for the Wei River, a major tributary of the Yellow River that flows through the historical heartland of ancient Chinese civilization in Shaanxi province.
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D.
Jiang Rong
Jiang Rong is a Chinese writer best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "Wolf Totem," which explores the culture of the Mongolian grasslands and the tension between tradition and modernization.
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E.
Wang Zhen
Wang Zhen was a prominent Chinese Communist military commander and one of the founding Ten Marshals of the People’s Republic of 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: Luo Guanzhong Target entity description: Luo Guanzhong was a 14th-century Chinese writer traditionally credited as the author of the classic historical novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms."
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A.
Wu Cheng'en
Wu Cheng'en was a Ming dynasty Chinese novelist and poet best known as the putative author of the classic fantasy novel "Journey to the West."
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B.
Ban Gu
Ban Gu was a prominent 1st-century Chinese historian and scholar of the Eastern Han dynasty, best known for authoring one of China’s most important official dynastic histories.
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C.
Sima Qian
Sima Qian was an eminent Chinese historian of the Former Han dynasty, best known for authoring the foundational historical text "Records of the Grand Historian" (Shiji).
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D.
Wei He
Wei He is the Chinese name for the Wei River, a major tributary of the Yellow River that flows through the historical heartland of ancient Chinese civilization in Shaanxi province.
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E.
Jiang Rong
Jiang Rong is a Chinese writer best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "Wolf Totem," which explores the culture of the Mongolian grasslands and the tension between tradition and modernization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese writer
ⓘ
person ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| activeDuring |
early Ming dynasty
ⓘ
late Yuan dynasty ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeriod | Three Kingdoms period (as literary subject) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnSources |
Records of the Three Kingdoms
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
folk tales about the Three Kingdoms period ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | author of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ming dynasty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yuan dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalHeritage | Chinese literature ⓘ |
| era | 14th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Luo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
drama
ⓘ
fiction writing ⓘ historical narrative ⓘ |
| floruit | 14th century ⓘ |
| genre |
Chinese opera
ⓘ
historical novel ⓘ |
| givenName | Guanzhong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Chinese historical fiction
ⓘ
East Asian popular culture ⓘ later adaptations of Three Kingdoms stories ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Chinese vernacular novel ⓘ |
| movement | classical Chinese literature ⓘ |
| name | Luo Guanzhong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName |
罗贯中
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
羅貫中 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Pingyao Zhuan
NERFINISHED
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanguo Yanyi NERFINISHED ⓘ Sui Tang Yanyi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| region | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | classical author ⓘ |
| traditionallyCreditedFor | authorship of Romance of the Three Kingdoms ⓘ |
| workSubject |
Battle of Red Cliffs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cao Cao NERFINISHED ⓘ Liu Bei NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Quan NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhuge Liang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingLanguage | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
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: Luo Guanzhong Description of subject: Luo Guanzhong was a 14th-century Chinese writer traditionally credited as the author of the classic historical novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.