House of Li
E761285
The House of Li was the imperial dynasty that founded and ruled China’s Tang dynasty, overseeing a golden age of Chinese culture, politics, and expansion.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| House of Li canonical | 6 |
| Li house of Tang | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8850573 — 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: House of Li Context triple: [Emperor Taizong of Tang, house, House of Li]
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House of Ji
The House of Ji was the hereditary ruling clan of the ancient Chinese State of Lu, traditionally associated with the lineage of the Zhou royal family.
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House of Yi
The House of Yi was the royal family that ruled Korea for centuries, including during the final Korean Empire period before Japanese annexation.
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C.
House of Jiang
The House of Jiang was the ruling clan that established and governed the ancient Chinese state of Qi during the Zhou dynasty period.
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House of Zhao
The House of Zhao was the imperial family that founded and ruled China’s Song dynasty, overseeing a period of major economic, cultural, and technological development.
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E.
House of Zhao
The House of Zhao was the hereditary royal clan that ruled the ancient Chinese state of Zhao during the Warring States period.
- 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: House of Li Target entity description: The House of Li was the imperial dynasty that founded and ruled China’s Tang dynasty, overseeing a golden age of Chinese culture, politics, and expansion.
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A.
House of Ji
The House of Ji was the hereditary ruling clan of the ancient Chinese State of Lu, traditionally associated with the lineage of the Zhou royal family.
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B.
House of Yi
The House of Yi was the royal family that ruled Korea for centuries, including during the final Korean Empire period before Japanese annexation.
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C.
House of Jiang
The House of Jiang was the ruling clan that established and governed the ancient Chinese state of Qi during the Zhou dynasty period.
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D.
House of Zhao
The House of Zhao was the imperial family that founded and ruled China’s Song dynasty, overseeing a period of major economic, cultural, and technological development.
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E.
House of Zhao
The House of Zhao was the hereditary royal clan that ruled the ancient Chinese state of Zhao during the Warring States period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
imperial dynasty
ⓘ
ruling family ⓘ |
| claimedAncestryFrom | Laozi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryRuled |
China
NERFINISHED
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Tang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 907 ⓘ |
| eraCharacterizedBy |
golden age of Chinese culture
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strong central bureaucracy ⓘ territorial expansion ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Han Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Emperor Gaozu of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCapital |
Chang'an
NERFINISHED
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Luoyang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDynasticSurname | Li NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Emperor Ai of Tang
NERFINISHED
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Emperor Daizong of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ Emperor Dezong of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ Emperor Gaozong of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ Emperor Gaozu of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ Emperor Suzong of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ Emperor Taizong of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ Emperor Wuzong of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ Emperor Xianzong of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ Emperor Xizong of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ Emperor Xuanzong of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ Emperor Yizong of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ Empress Wu Zetian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advances in poetry, painting, and music
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cosmopolitan culture ⓘ economic prosperity ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Li family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
An Lushan Rebellion
NERFINISHED
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consolidation of Tang legal code ⓘ expansion into Central Asia ⓘ flourishing of poetry and arts ⓘ |
| predecessor | Sui dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religionSupported |
Buddhism
NERFINISHED
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Confucianism NERFINISHED ⓘ Daoism ⓘ |
| startTime | 618 ⓘ |
| successor | Later Liang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| territoryIncludes |
Gansu
NERFINISHED
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Guangdong NERFINISHED ⓘ Sichuan NERFINISHED ⓘ parts of Central Asia ⓘ |
| usedGovernmentSystem |
bureaucratic monarchy
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imperial examination system ⓘ |
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: House of Li Description of subject: The House of Li was the imperial dynasty that founded and ruled China’s Tang dynasty, overseeing a golden age of Chinese culture, politics, and expansion.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Li house of Tang