Yongle Emperor
E73034
The Yongle Emperor was the third ruler of China’s Ming dynasty, known for moving the capital to Beijing, commissioning the Forbidden City, and sponsoring the voyages of Zheng He.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yongle Emperor canonical | 50 |
| Zhu Di | 15 |
| Yongle | 2 |
| Chengzu | 1 |
| Emperor Yongle | 1 |
| Ming Chengzu | 1 |
| Yongle Emperor’s reign | 1 |
| his uncle Zhu Di | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T582319 — 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: Yongle Emperor Context triple: [Ming Tombs, firstBurial, Yongle Emperor]
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A.
Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan was the 13th-century Mongol emperor who founded China’s Yuan dynasty and presided over one of the largest empires in history.
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B.
Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty was a Chinese imperial dynasty (1368–1644) known for its strong centralized government, flourishing arts and literature, maritime expeditions, and the construction and restoration of major works like the Great Wall and the Forbidden City.
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C.
Hayam Wuruk
Hayam Wuruk was a 14th-century Javanese king whose reign marked the political and cultural zenith of the Majapahit Empire in maritime Southeast Asia.
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D.
He Zizhen
He Zizhen was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist Party member best known as one of Mao Zedong’s wives and a participant in the Long March.
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E.
Mao Zemin
Mao Zemin was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician, and the younger brother of Mao Zedong, who held key financial and logistical roles in the early Chinese Communist Party before being executed in Xinjiang in 1943.
- 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: Yongle Emperor Target entity description: The Yongle Emperor was the third ruler of China’s Ming dynasty, known for moving the capital to Beijing, commissioning the Forbidden City, and sponsoring the voyages of Zheng He.
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A.
Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan was the 13th-century Mongol emperor who founded China’s Yuan dynasty and presided over one of the largest empires in history.
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B.
Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty was a Chinese imperial dynasty (1368–1644) known for its strong centralized government, flourishing arts and literature, maritime expeditions, and the construction and restoration of major works like the Great Wall and the Forbidden City.
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C.
Hayam Wuruk
Hayam Wuruk was a 14th-century Javanese king whose reign marked the political and cultural zenith of the Majapahit Empire in maritime Southeast Asia.
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D.
He Zizhen
He Zizhen was a Chinese revolutionary and early Communist Party member best known as one of Mao Zedong’s wives and a participant in the Long March.
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E.
Mao Zemin
Mao Zemin was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician, and the younger brother of Mao Zedong, who held key financial and logistical roles in the early Chinese Communist Party before being executed in Xinjiang in 1943.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Yongle Emperor Description of subject: The Yongle Emperor was the third ruler of China’s Ming dynasty, known for moving the capital to Beijing, commissioning the Forbidden City, and sponsoring the voyages of Zheng He.
Referenced by (72)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Zhu Di
this entity surface form:
Zhu Di
this entity surface form:
Zhu Di
this entity surface form:
Zhu Di
this entity surface form:
Zhu Di
this entity surface form:
Zhu Di
this entity surface form:
Yongle Emperor’s reign
subject surface form:
Ling’en Hall
subject surface form:
Xuande Emperor
subject surface form:
Xuande Emperor
subject surface form:
Old Dragon Head
this entity surface form:
Emperor Yongle