Zhili province

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Zhili province was a historically important administrative region in northern China, centered on present-day Hebei and Beijing, that played a key political and military role during the late Qing and early Republican eras.

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All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Zhili Province 7
Beiyang region 3
Jilu 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historical province of China
abolished 1928
administrativeLevel province
associatedWith Zhili clique NERFINISHED
borders Henan province NERFINISHED
Inner Mongolia region NERFINISHED
Shandong province NERFINISHED
Shanxi province NERFINISHED
capital Baoding NERFINISHED
centeredOn Beijing NERFINISHED
present-day Hebei
contains Baoding NERFINISHED
Beijing NERFINISHED
Tianjin NERFINISHED
Tianjin port NERFINISHED
containsPartOf North China Plain NERFINISHED
country China
dissolutionReason reorganization of provincial system by Nationalist government
era late imperial China
warlord era of the Republic of China
governedBy viceroy of Zhili
governingDynasty Ming dynasty NERFINISHED
Qing dynasty NERFINISHED
historicalCapital Beijing NERFINISHED
Tianjin NERFINISHED
historicalStatus core region of imperial control in North China
language Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED
locatedIn northern China
militaryRole major military base in northern China
modernTerritoryIncludes Beijing municipality NERFINISHED
Hebei NERFINISHED
Tianjin municipality NERFINISHED
parts of Henan
parts of Liaoning
parts of Shandong
nameMeaning directly ruled
notableEvent Boxer Rebellion NERFINISHED
First Zhili–Fengtian War NERFINISHED
Second Zhili–Fengtian War NERFINISHED
politicalRole key political center in late Qing China
predecessor Beizhili NERFINISHED
successor Hebei province NERFINISHED
direct-controlled municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin
timePeriod Ming dynasty NERFINISHED
Qing dynasty NERFINISHED
early Republic of China
underJurisdictionOf central government of the Qing dynasty

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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: Zhili province
Description of subject: Zhili province was a historically important administrative region in northern China, centered on present-day Hebei and Beijing, that played a key political and military role during the late Qing and early Republican eras.

Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Beiyang Army garrisonLocation Zhili province
Zhili–Anhui War location Zhili province
this entity surface form: Zhili Province
First Zhili–Fengtian War militaryTheater Zhili province
this entity surface form: Zhili (Hebei) region
Second Zhili–Fengtian War location Zhili province
this entity surface form: Zhili Province
Cao Kun birthPlace Zhili province
this entity surface form: Zhili Province
Jilu dialect spokenIn Zhili province
this entity surface form: Jilu region
Jilu dialect region Zhili province
this entity surface form: Jilu
Sheng Xuanhuai placeOfActivity Zhili province
this entity surface form: Beiyang region
New Army garrisonLocation Zhili province
this entity surface form: Zhili Province
Laoting County, Hebei, Qing Empire partOf Zhili province
this entity surface form: Zhili Province
Viceroy of Zhili appliesToJurisdiction Zhili province
this entity surface form: Zhili Province
Beiyang Minister location Zhili province
this entity surface form: Beiyang region
Tianjin Machine Factory locatedIn Zhili province
this entity surface form: Zhili Province
Tianjin Machine Factory associatedWith Zhili province
this entity surface form: Beiyang region