Sacred Way
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Sacred Way is the ceremonial stone pathway lined with statues that forms the grand processional approach to the Ming Tombs near Beijing, China.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sacred Way canonical | 1 |
| spirit road | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T582346 — 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: Sacred Way Context triple: [Ming Tombs, hasComponent, Sacred Way]
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A.
Sacred Way
Sacred Way is the ancient processional road at the sanctuary of Delphi in Greece, once lined with treasuries, statues, and monuments used by pilgrims approaching the Temple of Apollo.
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B.
Via Sacra
Via Sacra was the main ceremonial street of ancient Rome, running through the Roman Forum and used for triumphal processions and public religious events.
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C.
The Royal Road
The Royal Road is a historic route name traditionally used for important long-distance roads that connected major cities or regions under royal or imperial authority.
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D.
Temple of Ellesyia
The Temple of Ellesyia is an ancient Egyptian rock-cut sanctuary in Nubia, dedicated to the god Amun and relocated to Italy to protect it from flooding caused by the Aswan High Dam.
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E.
Noble Sanctuary
The Noble Sanctuary is the Islamic name for the revered religious complex in Jerusalem that includes the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.
- 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: Sacred Way Target entity description: Sacred Way is the ceremonial stone pathway lined with statues that forms the grand processional approach to the Ming Tombs near Beijing, China.
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A.
Sacred Way
Sacred Way is the ancient processional road at the sanctuary of Delphi in Greece, once lined with treasuries, statues, and monuments used by pilgrims approaching the Temple of Apollo.
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B.
Via Sacra
Via Sacra was the main ceremonial street of ancient Rome, running through the Roman Forum and used for triumphal processions and public religious events.
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C.
The Royal Road
The Royal Road is a historic route name traditionally used for important long-distance roads that connected major cities or regions under royal or imperial authority.
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D.
Temple of Ellesyia
The Temple of Ellesyia is an ancient Egyptian rock-cut sanctuary in Nubia, dedicated to the god Amun and relocated to Italy to protect it from flooding caused by the Aswan High Dam.
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E.
Noble Sanctuary
The Noble Sanctuary is the Islamic name for the revered religious complex in Jerusalem that includes the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ceremonial pathway
ⓘ
cultural heritage site ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Shen Dao
ⓘ
Spirit Way ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ming dynasty
ⓘ
imperial mausoleums ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Chinese imperial funerary tradition ⓘ |
| hasAccessRole | main approach to the Ming Tombs area ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
ceremonial approach
ⓘ
lined with statues ⓘ processional route ⓘ stone animal statues ⓘ stone human statues ⓘ stone pathway ⓘ |
| hasFunction | grand processional approach to the Ming Tombs ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | axial ceremonial route ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Ming and Qing Dynasties Imperial Tombs" ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Ming Tombs ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Beijing ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| nearCity |
Changping District
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surface form:
Changping District, Beijing
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| partOf |
Ming Tombs
ⓘ
surface form:
Ming Tombs complex
|
| symbolism |
imperial authority and dignity
ⓘ
symbolic passage to the afterlife ⓘ |
| touristActivity |
historical tourism
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sightseeing ⓘ |
| usedFor | imperial funerary ceremonies ⓘ |
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: Sacred Way Description of subject: Sacred Way is the ceremonial stone pathway lined with statues that forms the grand processional approach to the Ming Tombs near Beijing, China.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Spirit Way
this entity surface form:
spirit road