Sun Yi-xian
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Sun Yi-xian, better known as Sun Yat-sen, was a Chinese revolutionary leader and founding father of the Republic of China who played a key role in overthrowing the Qing dynasty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sun Yi-xian canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7795388 — 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 Yi-xian Context triple: [Sun Wen, alsoKnownAs, Sun Yi-xian]
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A.
Li Xiannian
Li Xiannian was a prominent Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician who served as President of the People’s Republic of China from 1983 to 1988.
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B.
Xu Shiyou
Xu Shiyou was a prominent Chinese general and military commander of the People's Liberation Army who played key roles in several major conflicts of the People's Republic of China.
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C.
Xue Yinxian
Xue Yinxian is a Chinese sports doctor and whistleblower known for exposing state-sponsored doping in Chinese athletics.
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D.
Mao Xinyu
Mao Xinyu is a Chinese major general and military historian best known as the grandson of Mao Zedong.
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E.
Xie Lian
Xie Lian was the wife of Chinese Communist military leader and Marshal Liu Bocheng.
- 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 Yi-xian Target entity description: Sun Yi-xian, better known as Sun Yat-sen, was a Chinese revolutionary leader and founding father of the Republic of China who played a key role in overthrowing the Qing dynasty.
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A.
Li Xiannian
Li Xiannian was a prominent Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician who served as President of the People’s Republic of China from 1983 to 1988.
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B.
Xu Shiyou
Xu Shiyou was a prominent Chinese general and military commander of the People's Liberation Army who played key roles in several major conflicts of the People's Republic of China.
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C.
Xue Yinxian
Xue Yinxian is a Chinese sports doctor and whistleblower known for exposing state-sponsored doping in Chinese athletics.
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D.
Mao Xinyu
Mao Xinyu is a Chinese major general and military historian best known as the grandson of Mao Zedong.
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E.
Xie Lian
Xie Lian was the wife of Chinese Communist military leader and Marshal Liu Bocheng.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese revolutionary
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founding father ⓘ head of state ⓘ human ⓘ physician ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1866-11-12 ⓘ |
| birthName | Sun Deming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan, Guangdong, Qing Empire
NERFINISHED
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Xiangshan County, Guangdong, Qing Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanjing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | liver cancer ⓘ |
| child |
Sun Fo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sun Wan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Qing Empire
NERFINISHED
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Republic of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1925-03-12 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, Republic of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Guangzhou Boji Hospital Medical School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen's College, Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded |
Kuomintang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Revive China Society NERFINISHED ⓘ Tongmenghui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Wen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle |
Father of the Nation (Republic of China)
NERFINISHED
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Forerunner of the Revolution (People's Republic of China) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
Chinese nationalism
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democracy ⓘ people's livelihood ⓘ republicanism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
formulating the Three Principles of the People
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founding the Republic of China ⓘ overthrowing the Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Cantonese
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English ⓘ Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Xinhai Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name |
Sun Wen
NERFINISHED
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Sun Yat-sen NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Yi-xian NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Zhongshan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Three Principles of the People NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
physician
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politician ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Extraordinary President of the Republic of China
NERFINISHED
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Generalissimo of the Military Government of the Republic of China ⓘ Provisional President of the Republic of China ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Guangzhou
NERFINISHED
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Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ Honolulu NERFINISHED ⓘ Shanghai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| signature | Sun Yat-sen signature image ⓘ |
| spouse |
Lu Muzhen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Soong Ching-ling 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 Yi-xian Description of subject: Sun Yi-xian, better known as Sun Yat-sen, was a Chinese revolutionary leader and founding father of the Republic of China who played a key role in overthrowing the Qing dynasty.
Referenced by (1)
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