Yuanpei
E774390
Yuanpei is the given name of Cai Yuanpei, a prominent Chinese educator and reformer who served as president of Peking University in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yuanpei canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9046821 — 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: Yuanpei Context triple: [Cai Yuanpei, givenName, Yuanpei]
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A.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a late 19th-century Chinese ironclad battleship of the Beiyang Fleet that played a prominent role in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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B.
Yüeh-chih
Yüeh-chih were an ancient Indo-European nomadic people of Central Asia who played a key role in the formation of the Kushan Empire and the cultural exchanges along the Silk Road.
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C.
Yuanzhen
Yuanzhen was the Chinese era name used during the reign of Temür Khan, the second emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
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D.
Yuanhong
Yuanhong is a Chinese given name that appears in the full name of the historical figure Li Yuanhong.
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E.
Yingchao
Yingchao is the given name of Deng Yingchao, a prominent Chinese revolutionary leader and influential politician in the 20th century.
- 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: Yuanpei Target entity description: Yuanpei is the given name of Cai Yuanpei, a prominent Chinese educator and reformer who served as president of Peking University in the early 20th century.
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A.
Zhenyuan
Zhenyuan was a late 19th-century Chinese ironclad battleship of the Beiyang Fleet that played a prominent role in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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B.
Yüeh-chih
Yüeh-chih were an ancient Indo-European nomadic people of Central Asia who played a key role in the formation of the Kushan Empire and the cultural exchanges along the Silk Road.
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C.
Yuanzhen
Yuanzhen was the Chinese era name used during the reign of Temür Khan, the second emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
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D.
Yuanhong
Yuanhong is a Chinese given name that appears in the full name of the historical figure Li Yuanhong.
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E.
Yingchao
Yingchao is the given name of Deng Yingchao, a prominent Chinese revolutionary leader and influential politician in the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Guozijian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leipzig University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Peking University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Cai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aesthetics
ⓘ
education reform ⓘ university administration ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Yuanpei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Cai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Yuanpei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
liberalism
ⓘ
secularism ⓘ |
| influenced | modern Chinese intellectuals ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Western philosophy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocating separation of education and religion
ⓘ
introducing modern academic disciplines to Peking University ⓘ supporting student activism ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
German
ⓘ
Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Academia Sinica
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chinese Revolutionary Alliance NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuomintang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
May Fourth Movement
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Culture Movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | 蔡元培 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocating aesthetic education
ⓘ
promoting academic freedom ⓘ reforming Chinese higher education ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
ⓘ
philosopher ⓘ politician ⓘ reformer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Qing Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shaoxing NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhejiang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of Peking University ⓘ |
| residence |
Beijing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shanghai 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: Yuanpei Description of subject: Yuanpei is the given name of Cai Yuanpei, a prominent Chinese educator and reformer who served as president of Peking University in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.