Duke Xian of Jin (晉獻公)
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Duke Xian of Jin (晉獻公) was an influential early Spring and Autumn period ruler of the Chinese state of Jin, known for his aggressive territorial expansion and political reforms that laid the groundwork for Jin’s later dominance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duke Xian of Jin (晉獻公) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8147946 — 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: Duke Xian of Jin (晉獻公) Context triple: [State of Jin, notableRuler, Duke Xian of Jin (晉獻公)]
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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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Duke Huan of Qi
Duke Huan of Qi was a powerful early Spring and Autumn period hegemon of ancient China, renowned for strengthening the State of Qi and asserting leadership over other Zhou vassal states.
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C.
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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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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E.
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.
- 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: Duke Xian of Jin (晉獻公) Target entity description: Duke Xian of Jin (晉獻公) was an influential early Spring and Autumn period ruler of the Chinese state of Jin, known for his aggressive territorial expansion and political reforms that laid the groundwork for Jin’s later dominance.
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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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B.
Duke Xiao of Qin
Duke Xiao of Qin was a 4th-century BCE ruler of the Qin state who initiated major political and military reforms that laid the groundwork for Qin’s rise to power and eventual unification of China.
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Duke Huan of Qi
Duke Huan of Qi was a powerful early Spring and Autumn period hegemon of ancient China, renowned for strengthening the State of Qi and asserting leadership over other Zhou vassal states.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spring and Autumn period ruler
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head of state ⓘ historical figure ⓘ nobleman ⓘ ruler ⓘ |
| country | Jin (state) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Zhou Chinese aristocratic culture ⓘ |
| deathDate | 651 BC ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Jin (state) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Spring and Autumn period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Duke Hui of Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Guang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| government | hereditary monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalContext | contemporary with early hegemonic struggles among Zhou states ⓘ |
| implemented |
administrative reforms in Jin
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centralization of power in Jin ⓘ |
| influenced | subsequent strength of Jin in the Spring and Autumn period ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| militaryPolicy | offensive expansionism ⓘ |
| nativeName | 晉獻公 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
aggressive military campaigns
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annexation of smaller neighboring states ⓘ laying groundwork for Jin’s later dominance ⓘ political reforms in Jin ⓘ strengthening central authority in Jin ⓘ territorial expansion of Jin ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Duke of Jin
NERFINISHED
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ruler of Jin ⓘ |
| posthumousName | Xian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posthumousTitle | Duke Xian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Duke Hui of Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn |
Records of the Grand Historian
NERFINISHED
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Zuo Zhuan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Northern China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 651 BC ⓘ |
| reignStart | 676 BC ⓘ |
| residence | capital of Jin ⓘ |
| sovereignOf | Jin (state) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Jin (state) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Duke Hui of Jin (second reign) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
7th century BC
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early Spring and Autumn period ⓘ |
| title | Gong (Duke) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOfMonarch | feudal lord under the Zhou king ⓘ |
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: Duke Xian of Jin (晉獻公) Description of subject: Duke Xian of Jin (晉獻公) was an influential early Spring and Autumn period ruler of the Chinese state of Jin, known for his aggressive territorial expansion and political reforms that laid the groundwork for Jin’s later dominance.
Referenced by (1)
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