Former Shu
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Former Shu was a short-lived Chinese kingdom based in Sichuan that existed during the turbulent Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period following the fall of the Tang dynasty.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Former Shu canonical | 1 |
| Later Shu | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8295151 — 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: Former Shu Context triple: [Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, hasPart, Former Shu]
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A.
Eastern Wu
Eastern Wu was a powerful kingdom during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for its strong naval forces and control of the lower Yangtze River region.
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B.
Shu Han
Shu Han was one of the Three Kingdoms of China, a state founded by Liu Bei in the early 3rd century that claimed to continue the legacy of the Han dynasty.
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C.
State of Wu
The State of Wu was an ancient Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn period, known for its powerful military, naval strength, and rivalry with the State of Yue.
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D.
State of Han
The State of Han was a minor Warring States–period kingdom in ancient China, situated in central China and often overshadowed and pressured by more powerful neighbors such as Qin and Chu.
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E.
Western Wei
Western Wei was a short-lived Chinese dynasty (535–557 CE) that ruled the western part of the former Northern Wei territory during the Northern and Southern dynasties 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: Former Shu Target entity description: Former Shu was a short-lived Chinese kingdom based in Sichuan that existed during the turbulent Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period following the fall of the Tang dynasty.
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A.
Eastern Wu
Eastern Wu was a powerful kingdom during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known for its strong naval forces and control of the lower Yangtze River region.
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B.
Shu Han
Shu Han was one of the Three Kingdoms of China, a state founded by Liu Bei in the early 3rd century that claimed to continue the legacy of the Han dynasty.
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C.
State of Wu
The State of Wu was an ancient Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn period, known for its powerful military, naval strength, and rivalry with the State of Yue.
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D.
State of Han
The State of Han was a minor Warring States–period kingdom in ancient China, situated in central China and often overshadowed and pressured by more powerful neighbors such as Qin and Chu.
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E.
Western Wei
Western Wei was a short-lived Chinese dynasty (535–557 CE) that ruled the western part of the former Northern Wei territory during the Northern and Southern dynasties period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese kingdom
ⓘ
Ten Kingdoms state ⓘ historical state ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Former Shu kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Qian Shu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Chengdu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conqueredBy | Later Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalFlourishing |
Buddhist art
ⓘ
painting ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| currency | Chinese cash coins ⓘ |
| duration | 18 years ⓘ |
| endTime | 925 ⓘ |
| fallEvent | Later Tang conquest of Former Shu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fallYear | 925 ⓘ |
| firstRuler | Wang Jian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Tang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Wang Jian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | monarchy ⓘ |
| hasRuler |
Wang Jian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wang Zongyan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Southwestern China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| lastRuler | Wang Zongyan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Sichuan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Upper Yangtze region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | wars with Later Tang ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Shu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
prosperous economy based on Sichuan agriculture
ⓘ
relative stability compared to northern dynasties ⓘ |
| overthrownBy | Later Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | independent kingdom ⓘ |
| precedes | Later Shu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorState | Tang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Sichuan Basin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
modern Sichuan Province ⓘ parts of modern Chongqing ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Chinese folk religion ⓘ Taoism ⓘ |
| startTime | 907 ⓘ |
| successorState | Later Shu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 10th 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: Former Shu Description of subject: Former Shu was a short-lived Chinese kingdom based in Sichuan that existed during the turbulent Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period following the fall of the Tang dynasty.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Later Shu