冯
E751169
冯 is a common Chinese surname with ancient origins, used by many notable historical and contemporary figures.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8681638 — 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: 冯 Context triple: [Feng, hasChineseCharacterForm, 冯]
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A.
詹
詹 is a Chinese surname and character commonly romanized as "Chan" in Cantonese.
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B.
趙
趙 is a common Chinese surname with historical roots in ancient China, notably associated with the State of Zhao during the Warring States period.
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C.
Fu Cong
Fu Cong is a Chinese diplomat who serves as the Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations.
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D.
Fayan Wenyi
Fayan Wenyi was a prominent 10th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) master and founder of the Fayan school, known for his influential teachings and role in the development of Song-dynasty Chan Buddhism.
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E.
Yunwen
Yunwen was the personal name of the Jianwen Emperor, a Ming dynasty ruler of China known for his short and turbulent reign and subsequent mysterious disappearance.
- 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: 冯 Target entity description: 冯 is a common Chinese surname with ancient origins, used by many notable historical and contemporary figures.
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A.
詹
詹 is a Chinese surname and character commonly romanized as "Chan" in Cantonese.
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B.
趙
趙 is a common Chinese surname with historical roots in ancient China, notably associated with the State of Zhao during the Warring States period.
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C.
Fu Cong
Fu Cong is a Chinese diplomat who serves as the Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations.
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D.
Fayan Wenyi
Fayan Wenyi was a prominent 10th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) master and founder of the Fayan school, known for his influential teachings and role in the development of Song-dynasty Chan Buddhism.
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E.
Yunwen
Yunwen was the personal name of the Jianwen Emperor, a Ming dynasty ruler of China known for his short and turbulent reign and subsequent mysterious disappearance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese surname
ⓘ
East Asian surname ⓘ |
| belongsToSurnameCategory | Hundred Family Surnames NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| etymologicalType | phonetic loan character ⓘ |
| hasCantoneseRomanization | Fung NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHokkienRomanization | Hong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseEquivalent | フウ ⓘ |
| hasKoreanEquivalent | 풍 ⓘ |
| hasKoreanRomanization | Pung NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
冯友兰
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
冯唐 NERFINISHED ⓘ 冯小刚 NERFINISHED ⓘ 冯巩 ⓘ 冯玉祥 NERFINISHED ⓘ 冯至 NERFINISHED ⓘ 冯诺依曼 NERFINISHED ⓘ 冯骥才 ⓘ |
| hasTeochewRomanization | Hong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariantRomanization |
Fong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Foong NERFINISHED ⓘ Fung NERFINISHED ⓘ Hong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVietnameseEquivalent | Phùng NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCommonInRegion |
Chinese diaspora
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ Macau NERFINISHED ⓘ Mainland China NERFINISHED ⓘ Malaysia NERFINISHED ⓘ Singapore NERFINISHED ⓘ Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Chinese ⓘ |
| listedIn | Hundred Family Surnames poem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalMeaning |
to gallop
ⓘ
to rely on ⓘ |
| originDynasty | Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originPeriod | ancient China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInHundredFamilySurnames | 9 ⓘ |
| radical | 冫 ⓘ |
| radicalMeaning | ice ⓘ |
| romanizationSystem | Hanyu Pinyin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptForm |
simplified Chinese
ⓘ
traditional Chinese ⓘ |
| strokeCount | 5 ⓘ |
| structure | left-right ⓘ |
| transliterationInPinyin | Feng NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UnicodeCodePoint | U+51AF ⓘ |
| usageType | patrilineal surname ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Chinese characters ⓘ |
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: 冯 Description of subject: 冯 is a common Chinese surname with ancient origins, used by many notable historical and contemporary figures.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
馮