Marquis Wen of Wei
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Marquis Wen of Wei was a prominent Warring States-era ruler known for his political and military reforms that helped transform the State of Wei into a major regional power in ancient China.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King Hui of Wei | 1 |
| Marquis Wen of Wei canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8531038 — 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: Marquis Wen of Wei Context triple: [State of Wei, notableRuler, Marquis Wen of Wei]
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Marquess Cheng of Zhao
Marquess Cheng of Zhao was an early ruler of the State of Zhao during China’s Warring States period, preceding the transformative reign of King Wuling of Zhao.
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B.
King Wei of Qi
King Wei of Qi was a prominent Warring States-era monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Qi, known for strengthening his kingdom’s power and fostering political and military reforms.
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C.
King Zhao of Yan
King Zhao of Yan was a Warring States period ruler of the ancient Chinese state of Yan, known for his efforts to strengthen the state and for employing the famous general Yue Yi in campaigns against Qi.
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D.
Marquis Yi of Zeng
Marquis Yi of Zeng was a 5th-century BCE ruler of the Zeng state in ancient China, best known today for his lavishly furnished tomb containing the famous bianzhong bronze chime bells.
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E.
Duke Xiao of Qin
Duke Xiao of Qin was a 4th-century BCE ruler of the Qin state who initiated major political and military reforms that laid the groundwork for Qin’s rise to power and eventual unification of China.
- 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: Marquis Wen of Wei Target entity description: Marquis Wen of Wei was a prominent Warring States-era ruler known for his political and military reforms that helped transform the State of Wei into a major regional power in ancient China.
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A.
Marquess Cheng of Zhao
Marquess Cheng of Zhao was an early ruler of the State of Zhao during China’s Warring States period, preceding the transformative reign of King Wuling of Zhao.
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B.
King Wei of Qi
King Wei of Qi was a prominent Warring States-era monarch of the ancient Chinese state of Qi, known for strengthening his kingdom’s power and fostering political and military reforms.
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C.
King Zhao of Yan
King Zhao of Yan was a Warring States period ruler of the ancient Chinese state of Yan, known for his efforts to strengthen the state and for employing the famous general Yue Yi in campaigns against Qi.
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D.
Marquis Yi of Zeng
Marquis Yi of Zeng was a 5th-century BCE ruler of the Zeng state in ancient China, best known today for his lavishly furnished tomb containing the famous bianzhong bronze chime bells.
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E.
Duke Xiao of Qin
Duke Xiao of Qin was a 4th-century BCE ruler of the Qin state who initiated major political and military reforms that laid the groundwork for Qin’s rise to power and eventual unification of China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese ruler
ⓘ
Warring States-period person ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| associatedWithPhilosophy | Legalism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capitalDuringReign |
Anyang (of Wei)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Daliang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| civilization | Ancient China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| countryRuled | State of Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace | State of Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | State of Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
4th century BCE
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5th century BCE ⓘ |
| familyName | Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Marquis Wu of Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Si NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentForm | hereditary monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | one of the most capable rulers of early Warring States ⓘ |
| house | House of Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| implementedLegalCode | Canon of Laws NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
making Wei a major regional power
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military reforms ⓘ political reforms ⓘ strengthening the State of Wei ⓘ |
| language | Old Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod | Warring States period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRival |
State of Han
NERFINISHED
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State of Qin NERFINISHED ⓘ State of Zhao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameInChinese | 魏文侯 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAdvisor |
Li Kui
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wu Qi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| personalName | Wei Si NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posthumousName | Wen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Marquis Wu of Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reformArea |
legal system
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military organization ⓘ taxation system ⓘ |
| region | Central Plains of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 396 BCE ⓘ |
| reignStart | 445 BCE ⓘ |
| sourceMention |
Records of the Grand Historian
NERFINISHED
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Zhan Guo Ce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strengthenedInstitution | centralized bureaucracy ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Marquis Wu of Wei (second of Wei) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Marquis of Wei 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: Marquis Wen of Wei Description of subject: Marquis Wen of Wei was a prominent Warring States-era ruler known for his political and military reforms that helped transform the State of Wei into a major regional power in ancient China.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
State of Wei
subject surface form:
State of Wei
this entity surface form:
King Hui of Wei