Huai
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Huai was the posthumous title of a Warring States–period ruler of the ancient Chinese state of Chu, remembered for his troubled reign amid Qin’s rise to power.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Huai canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8006731 — 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: Huai Context triple: [King Huai of Chu, posthumousName, Huai]
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A.
Thaya River
The Thaya River is a Central European river flowing through Austria and the Czech Republic, known for forming part of their border and passing through historic towns such as Znojmo.
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B.
Hai River
The Hai River is a major river system in northern China that flows through the Beijing–Tianjin region into the Bohai Sea, playing a crucial role in regional water supply, agriculture, and transportation.
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C.
Nhue River
The Nhue River is a significant waterway in northern Vietnam that flows through the Red River Delta region, supporting agriculture, drainage, and daily life in provinces such as Ha Nam.
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D.
Chi River
The Chi River is one of the longest and most important rivers in northeastern Thailand, playing a key role in the region’s agriculture and water management.
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E.
Loa River
The Loa River is the longest river in Chile, flowing in a great arc through the Atacama Desert to the Pacific Ocean.
- 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: Huai Target entity description: Huai was the posthumous title of a Warring States–period ruler of the ancient Chinese state of Chu, remembered for his troubled reign amid Qin’s rise to power.
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A.
Thaya River
The Thaya River is a Central European river flowing through Austria and the Czech Republic, known for forming part of their border and passing through historic towns such as Znojmo.
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B.
Hai River
The Hai River is a major river system in northern China that flows through the Beijing–Tianjin region into the Bohai Sea, playing a crucial role in regional water supply, agriculture, and transportation.
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C.
Nhue River
The Nhue River is a significant waterway in northern Vietnam that flows through the Red River Delta region, supporting agriculture, drainage, and daily life in provinces such as Ha Nam.
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D.
Chi River
The Chi River is one of the longest and most important rivers in northeastern Thailand, playing a key role in the region’s agriculture and water management.
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E.
Loa River
The Loa River is the longest river in Chile, flowing in a great arc through the Atacama Desert to the Pacific Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Warring States-period ruler
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monarch ⓘ posthumously titled person ⓘ |
| captivityLocation | Qin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capturedBy | Qin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf | King Zhaoxiang of Qin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Chu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Chu culture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCause | died in captivity ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Qin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Chu ruling house of Mi ⓘ |
| era | Warring States period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Mi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Xiong Huai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | illustrates Qin’s growing dominance over other Warring States ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
Records of the Grand Historian
NERFINISHED
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Zhanguo Ce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Old Chinese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
decline of Chu’s power relative to Qin
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troubled reign amid the rise of the state of Qin ⓘ |
| notedFor | diplomatic miscalculations with Qin ⓘ |
| opponent | Qin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalStatusOfChu |
declining power relative to Qin during later part of his reign
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major power during early part of his reign ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of Chu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posthumousName | Huai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | King Xuan of Chu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| realm | ancient Chinese state of Chu ⓘ |
| region | southern China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reign | 328 BC – 299 BC ⓘ |
| sovereignOf | Chu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | King Qingxiang of Chu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorState | Qin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
3rd century BC
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4th century BC ⓘ |
| title | King of Chu 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: Huai Description of subject: Huai was the posthumous title of a Warring States–period ruler of the ancient Chinese state of Chu, remembered for his troubled reign amid Qin’s rise to power.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.