Tang Shu Yu (唐叔虞)
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Tang Shu Yu (唐叔虞) was an early Zhou dynasty noble and feudal lord who established the foundations of the State of Jin in ancient China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tang Shu Yu (唐叔虞) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8147937 — 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: Tang Shu Yu (唐叔虞) Context triple: [State of Jin, founder, Tang Shu Yu (唐叔虞)]
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A.
King Wen of Zhou
King Wen of Zhou was an early Zhou ruler revered as a sage-king whose leadership and reforms laid the groundwork for the Zhou dynasty’s overthrow of the Shang and the establishment of a new political order in ancient China.
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B.
Duke of Zhou
The Duke of Zhou was an influential early Zhou dynasty statesman and regent renowned for consolidating royal power, codifying rituals, and shaping the foundations of Chinese political philosophy.
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C.
King Xian of Zhou
King Xian of Zhou was a late monarch of China’s Zhou dynasty who ruled during its declining Eastern Zhou period.
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D.
King Cheng of Zhou
King Cheng of Zhou was an early Western Zhou dynasty ruler in ancient China, known for consolidating royal authority and granting hereditary fiefs to regional clans and nobles.
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E.
Wen Gong
Wen Gong is the posthumous honorific title bestowed on the influential Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi, reflecting his esteemed status in Chinese intellectual history.
- 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: Tang Shu Yu (唐叔虞) Target entity description: Tang Shu Yu (唐叔虞) was an early Zhou dynasty noble and feudal lord who established the foundations of the State of Jin in ancient China.
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A.
King Wen of Zhou
King Wen of Zhou was an early Zhou ruler revered as a sage-king whose leadership and reforms laid the groundwork for the Zhou dynasty’s overthrow of the Shang and the establishment of a new political order in ancient China.
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B.
Duke of Zhou
The Duke of Zhou was an influential early Zhou dynasty statesman and regent renowned for consolidating royal power, codifying rituals, and shaping the foundations of Chinese political philosophy.
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C.
King Xian of Zhou
King Xian of Zhou was a late monarch of China’s Zhou dynasty who ruled during its declining Eastern Zhou period.
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D.
King Cheng of Zhou
King Cheng of Zhou was an early Western Zhou dynasty ruler in ancient China, known for consolidating royal authority and granting hereditary fiefs to regional clans and nobles.
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E.
Wen Gong
Wen Gong is the posthumous honorific title bestowed on the influential Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi, reflecting his esteemed status in Chinese intellectual history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Zhou dynasty noble
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ancient Chinese person ⓘ feudal lord ⓘ founder of a state ⓘ |
| ancestralSurname | Ji (姬) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
State of Jin
NERFINISHED
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State of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ChineseName | 唐叔虞 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| civilization | Ancient China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Zhou Chinese ⓘ |
| dynasty | Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enfeoffedBy | King Cheng of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enfeoffedIn | Tang (唐) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | early Western Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Zhou Chinese ⓘ |
| father | King Wu of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundationsLaidFor | State of Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| government | hereditary lordship ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 11th century BCE ⓘ |
| house | Ji clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Old Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Bamboo Annals
NERFINISHED
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Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | shu (叔) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an early Zhou feudal lord
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establishing the base territory that later became Jin ⓘ |
| occupation |
aristocrat
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ruler ⓘ |
| parent | King Wu of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | feudalism ⓘ |
| posthumousTitle | Shu Yu (叔虞) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| powerBase | Tang fief ⓘ |
| realmLocation | Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | southern Shanxi ⓘ |
| relative | King Cheng of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInHistory | ancestor of later Jin rulers ⓘ |
| royalLineage | Zhou royal family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateFounded | Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | vassal of the Zhou king ⓘ |
| successorState | Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Lord of Tang 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: Tang Shu Yu (唐叔虞) Description of subject: Tang Shu Yu (唐叔虞) was an early Zhou dynasty noble and feudal lord who established the foundations of the State of Jin in ancient China.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.