Li Bing
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Li Bing was an ancient Chinese engineer and official of the Qin state renowned for creating the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, one of the world’s oldest and most influential water-management projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Li Bing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8903352 — 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: Li Bing Context triple: [Dujiangyan Irrigation System, designedBy, Li Bing]
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A.
Han Shui
Han Shui is the Chinese name for the Han River in Hubei, a major tributary of the Yangtze River and an important waterway in central China.
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B.
Ma Sichun
Ma Sichun is a Chinese actress known for her acclaimed film and television roles, including winning the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress.
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Ma Liang
Ma Liang was a historical figure from the Three Kingdoms period of China, known primarily as the younger brother of the Shu strategist Ma Su and for his own service under Liu Bei.
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D.
Pan Yunduan
Pan Yunduan was a Ming dynasty official best known for commissioning and building Shanghai’s famous Yu Garden as a private retreat for his family.
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E.
Tudigong
Tudigong is a widely venerated Chinese earth god and local tutelary deity associated with protecting land, villages, and community welfare.
- 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: Li Bing Target entity description: Li Bing was an ancient Chinese engineer and official of the Qin state renowned for creating the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, one of the world’s oldest and most influential water-management projects.
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A.
Han Shui
Han Shui is the Chinese name for the Han River in Hubei, a major tributary of the Yangtze River and an important waterway in central China.
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B.
Ma Sichun
Ma Sichun is a Chinese actress known for her acclaimed film and television roles, including winning the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress.
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C.
Ma Liang
Ma Liang was a historical figure from the Three Kingdoms period of China, known primarily as the younger brother of the Shu strategist Ma Su and for his own service under Liu Bei.
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D.
Pan Yunduan
Pan Yunduan was a Ming dynasty official best known for commissioning and building Shanghai’s famous Yu Garden as a private retreat for his family.
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E.
Tudigong
Tudigong is a widely venerated Chinese earth god and local tutelary deity associated with protecting land, villages, and community welfare.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Qin dynasty official
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ancient Chinese engineer ⓘ hydraulic engineer ⓘ water management pioneer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dujiangyan City
NERFINISHED
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Erwang Temple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Li Erlang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
local festivals in Dujiangyan area
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statues at Dujiangyan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Qin state NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Records of the Grand Historian
NERFINISHED
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local Sichuan gazetteers ⓘ |
| employer | State of Qin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Warring States period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
flood control
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hydraulic engineering ⓘ irrigation ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | large-scale civil engineering project ⓘ |
| hasPartInWork |
Bottle-Neck Channel (Baopingkou) at Dujiangyan
NERFINISHED
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Fish Mouth Levee (Yuzui) at Dujiangyan NERFINISHED ⓘ Flying Sand Weir (Feisha Yan) at Dujiangyan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationOfWork | Dujiangyan Irrigation System UNESCO World Heritage Site NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| impact |
expanded irrigated farmland in Sichuan
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reduced flooding along the Min River ⓘ |
| influenced |
agricultural development of the Chengdu Plain
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later Chinese hydraulic engineering ⓘ |
| knownFor | Dujiangyan Irrigation System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| legacy |
Dujiangyan continues to function over two millennia after construction
NERFINISHED
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venerated as a water-control deity in local folk religion ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
designing a dam-free flood control system
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diverting Min River for irrigation without building a dam ⓘ improving agricultural productivity in the Chengdu Plain ⓘ |
| notableWork | Dujiangyan Irrigation System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
engineer
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government official ⓘ |
| partOf | Qin state expansion into Sichuan ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Chengdu Plain
NERFINISHED
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present-day Sichuan Province ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Shu commandery ⓘ |
| religiousCult | worship at Erwang Temple in Dujiangyan ⓘ |
| usedNaturalFeature | Min River flow and topography for gravity-fed irrigation ⓘ |
| usedTechnique |
channel cutting through Mount Yulei
NERFINISHED
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levee-based river diversion ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Dujiangyan
NERFINISHED
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Min River NERFINISHED ⓘ Shu commandery 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: Li Bing Description of subject: Li Bing was an ancient Chinese engineer and official of the Qin state renowned for creating the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, one of the world’s oldest and most influential water-management projects.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.