King Di Xin
E720420
King Di Xin was the last ruler of China’s Shang dynasty, historically portrayed as a tyrant whose misrule led to the dynasty’s downfall and replacement by the Zhou.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King Di Xin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8202524 — 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: King Di Xin Context triple: [Yin, associatedWithRuler, King Di Xin]
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A.
Song Emperor Duanzong
Song Emperor Duanzong was a late Southern Song dynasty ruler who briefly reigned during the dynasty’s final resistance against the Mongol conquest.
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B.
Emperor Su
Emperor Su is the posthumous temple name of the Longqing Emperor, a Ming dynasty ruler known for easing some of his predecessor’s harsh policies and briefly revitalizing the Chinese empire in the 16th century.
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C.
Emperor Xiaojing
Emperor Xiaojing is the posthumous temple name of the Hongzhi Emperor, a Ming dynasty ruler noted for his relatively benevolent and diligent governance.
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D.
Emperor Shaotian
Emperor Shaotian is the posthumous temple name given to the Yongli Emperor, the last sovereign of the Southern Ming dynasty who resisted the Qing conquest in 17th-century China.
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E.
Gengshi Emperor
Gengshi Emperor was a short-lived ruler of the restored Han dynasty in early 1st-century China, known for his brief and unstable reign before being succeeded by Emperor Guangwu.
- 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: King Di Xin Target entity description: King Di Xin was the last ruler of China’s Shang dynasty, historically portrayed as a tyrant whose misrule led to the dynasty’s downfall and replacement by the Zhou.
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A.
Song Emperor Duanzong
Song Emperor Duanzong was a late Southern Song dynasty ruler who briefly reigned during the dynasty’s final resistance against the Mongol conquest.
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B.
Emperor Su
Emperor Su is the posthumous temple name of the Longqing Emperor, a Ming dynasty ruler known for easing some of his predecessor’s harsh policies and briefly revitalizing the Chinese empire in the 16th century.
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C.
Emperor Xiaojing
Emperor Xiaojing is the posthumous temple name of the Hongzhi Emperor, a Ming dynasty ruler noted for his relatively benevolent and diligent governance.
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D.
Emperor Shaotian
Emperor Shaotian is the posthumous temple name given to the Yongli Emperor, the last sovereign of the Southern Ming dynasty who resisted the Qing conquest in 17th-century China.
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E.
Gengshi Emperor
Gengshi Emperor was a short-lived ruler of the restored Han dynasty in early 1st-century China, known for his brief and unstable reign before being succeeded by Emperor Guangwu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shang dynasty ruler
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human ⓘ king ⓘ last ruler of a dynasty ⓘ |
| associatedWork |
Bamboo Annals
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Book of Documents NERFINISHED ⓘ Fengshen Yanyi NERFINISHED ⓘ Records of the Grand Historian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battle | Battle of Muye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital |
Anyang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Shang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Chinese ⓘ |
| deathCause | suicide by self-immolation (traditional account) ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Mingtiao (near Zhaoge/Anyang region) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defeatedBy |
King Wu of Zhou
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Zhou forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Shang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | late Shang period ⓘ |
| father | King Di Yi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | largely negative in traditional historiography ⓘ |
| historicity | partly supported by oracle bone inscriptions ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cruel punishments
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extravagance ⓘ loss of Mandate of Heaven (traditional view) ⓘ misrule leading to fall of Shang ⓘ |
| lastRulerOf | Shang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legacy | symbol of tyrannical rule in Chinese political thought ⓘ |
| mother | Queen of Shang (wife of Di Yi) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name |
Di Xin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
King Di Xin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
cruel ruler
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debauched ruler ⓘ tyrant ⓘ |
| position | King of Shang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posthumousName |
Zhou
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Zhou Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhou Xin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | King Di Yi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reign | late 11th century BCE ⓘ |
| reignEndApprox | c. 1046 BCE ⓘ |
| reignEndCause | Zhou conquest ⓘ |
| reignStartApprox | c. 1075 BCE ⓘ |
| religion | Shang religion ⓘ |
| spouse | Daji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | King Wu of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorState | Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| templeName | Zhou 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: King Di Xin Description of subject: King Di Xin was the last ruler of China’s Shang dynasty, historically portrayed as a tyrant whose misrule led to the dynasty’s downfall and replacement by the Zhou.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.