Emperor Wen of Wei
E710880
Emperor Wen of Wei, born Cao Pi, was the founding emperor of the Cao Wei state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for formally ending the Han dynasty and establishing a new imperial regime.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emperor Wen of Wei canonical | 2 |
| Emperor Wu of Wei | 1 |
| Emperor of Cao Wei | 1 |
| King of Wei | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7877846 — 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: Emperor Wen of Wei Context triple: [Cao Wei, firstRulerTitle, Emperor Wen of Wei]
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Cao Rui
Cao Rui was the second emperor of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for consolidating imperial power and overseeing significant construction projects.
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Cao Wei
Cao Wei was a powerful Chinese state founded by the Cao family that ruled northern China during the Three Kingdoms period following the fall of the Han dynasty.
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Wei Lihuang
Wei Lihuang was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general best known for his leadership of Chinese forces against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
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Emperor Xian of Han
Emperor Xian of Han was the last emperor of the Eastern Han dynasty, whose reign marked the effective end of imperial Han authority and the rise of the warlord-dominated Three Kingdoms period in China.
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Guo Jia
Guo Jia was a renowned strategist and advisor to the warlord Cao Cao during the late Eastern Han dynasty, celebrated for his keen foresight and pivotal role in early Three Kingdoms-era campaigns.
- 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: Emperor Wen of Wei Target entity description: Emperor Wen of Wei, born Cao Pi, was the founding emperor of the Cao Wei state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for formally ending the Han dynasty and establishing a new imperial regime.
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A.
Cao Rui
Cao Rui was the second emperor of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for consolidating imperial power and overseeing significant construction projects.
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B.
Cao Wei
Cao Wei was a powerful Chinese state founded by the Cao family that ruled northern China during the Three Kingdoms period following the fall of the Han dynasty.
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C.
Wei Lihuang
Wei Lihuang was a prominent Nationalist Chinese general best known for his leadership of Chinese forces against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
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D.
Emperor Xian of Han
Emperor Xian of Han was the last emperor of the Eastern Han dynasty, whose reign marked the effective end of imperial Han authority and the rise of the warlord-dominated Three Kingdoms period in China.
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E.
Guo Jia
Guo Jia was a renowned strategist and advisor to the warlord Cao Cao during the late Eastern Han dynasty, celebrated for his keen foresight and pivotal role in early Three Kingdoms-era campaigns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cao Wei emperor
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emperor ⓘ founding emperor ⓘ |
| ascendedThrone | 220 ⓘ |
| birthDate | 187 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Qiao County, Pei Commandery
NERFINISHED
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near present-day Bozhou, Anhui, China ⓘ |
| capital | Luoyang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Cao Mao (prince of Laoling)
NERFINISHED
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Cao Mu NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Rui NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Xian NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Xie NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Yin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chineseName | 曹丕 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Cao Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| courtesyName | Zihuan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 226 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Luoyang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Cao Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eraNameUsed | Huangchu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Cao Cao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalText |
Book of Wei
NERFINISHED
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Records of the Three Kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | House of Cao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
literary talent
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political centralization in Cao Wei ⓘ |
| mother | Lady Bian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Cao Pi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
establishing the Huangchu era
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forcing Emperor Xian of Han to abdicate ⓘ formally ending the Eastern Han dynasty ⓘ founding the Cao Wei state ⓘ |
| occupation |
monarch
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poet ⓘ |
| overthrew | Eastern Han dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period | Three Kingdoms period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posthumousName | Emperor Wen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Emperor Xian of Han NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 226 ⓘ |
| reignName | Huangchu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignStart | 220 ⓘ |
| religion | Chinese folk religion ⓘ |
| spouse |
Empress Guo Nüwang
NERFINISHED
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Empress Zhen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededAs | King of Wei after Cao Cao ⓘ |
| successor | Cao Rui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| templeName | Shizu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Emperor of Wei
NERFINISHED
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King of Wei 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: Emperor Wen of Wei Description of subject: Emperor Wen of Wei, born Cao Pi, was the founding emperor of the Cao Wei state during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for formally ending the Han dynasty and establishing a new imperial regime.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Emperor of Cao Wei
this entity surface form:
King of Wei
this entity surface form:
Emperor Wu of Wei