Cao Shuang
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Cao Shuang was a powerful Cao Wei regent and general during China’s Three Kingdoms period who was ultimately overthrown and executed after a coup led by Sima Yi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cao Shuang canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8148106 — 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: Cao Shuang Context triple: [Sima Yi, seizedPowerFrom, Cao Shuang]
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A.
Sima Zhao
Sima Zhao was a powerful late Three Kingdoms-era statesman and general of the Cao Wei state whose dominance paved the way for his son Sima Yan to found the Jin dynasty.
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B.
Sima Yi
Sima Yi was a prominent Chinese military strategist and statesman who played a pivotal role in the rise of the Cao Wei state during the late Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms period.
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C.
Sima Shi
Sima Shi was a powerful 3rd-century Chinese general and regent of the Cao Wei state who, as a leading member of the Sima clan, laid crucial groundwork for the eventual establishment of the Jin dynasty.
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D.
Zhuge Jin
Zhuge Jin was a prominent statesman and military general of the Eastern Wu kingdom during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known also as the elder brother of the famed strategist Zhuge Liang.
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E.
Guo Jia
Guo Jia was a renowned strategist and advisor to the warlord Cao Cao during the late Eastern Han dynasty, celebrated for his keen foresight and pivotal role in early Three Kingdoms-era campaigns.
- 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: Cao Shuang Target entity description: Cao Shuang was a powerful Cao Wei regent and general during China’s Three Kingdoms period who was ultimately overthrown and executed after a coup led by Sima Yi.
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A.
Sima Zhao
Sima Zhao was a powerful late Three Kingdoms-era statesman and general of the Cao Wei state whose dominance paved the way for his son Sima Yan to found the Jin dynasty.
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B.
Sima Yi
Sima Yi was a prominent Chinese military strategist and statesman who played a pivotal role in the rise of the Cao Wei state during the late Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms period.
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C.
Sima Shi
Sima Shi was a powerful 3rd-century Chinese general and regent of the Cao Wei state who, as a leading member of the Sima clan, laid crucial groundwork for the eventual establishment of the Jin dynasty.
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D.
Zhuge Jin
Zhuge Jin was a prominent statesman and military general of the Eastern Wu kingdom during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known also as the elder brother of the famed strategist Zhuge Liang.
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E.
Guo Jia
Guo Jia was a renowned strategist and advisor to the warlord Cao Cao during the late Eastern Han dynasty, celebrated for his keen foresight and pivotal role in early Three Kingdoms-era campaigns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cao Wei official
ⓘ
Three Kingdoms person ⓘ general ⓘ politician ⓘ regent ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| charges | treason ⓘ |
| clan | Cao clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| co-regentWith | Sima Yi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Cao Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diedIn |
249
ⓘ
Luoyang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Cao Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Three Kingdoms period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executedBy | Cao Wei government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Cao Zhen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Shuang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfather | Cao Xiu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSource |
Records of the Three Kingdoms
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Zizhi Tongjian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
conflict with Sima Yi
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downfall in the Gaoping Tombs coup ⓘ monopolizing power at the Cao Wei court ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | mass execution ⓘ |
| militaryCampaign | campaigns against Shu Han ⓘ |
| nativeName | 曹爽 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Marquis of Anping NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Gaoping Tombs coup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
general
ⓘ
regent ⓘ |
| overthrownBy | Sima Yi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
General-in-Chief of Cao Wei
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grand Commandant NERFINISHED ⓘ regent of Cao Wei ⓘ |
| powerBase | Luoyang court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regencyFor | Cao Fang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Northern China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| removedFromPowerIn | 249 ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
Cao Fang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cao Rui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Cao Xi
NERFINISHED
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Cao Xun NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 3rd century ⓘ |
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: Cao Shuang Description of subject: Cao Shuang was a powerful Cao Wei regent and general during China’s Three Kingdoms period who was ultimately overthrown and executed after a coup led by Sima Yi.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.