Taiyuan
E80116
Taiyuan is the capital and largest city of Shanxi Province in northern China, known as an important industrial and transportation hub with a long imperial history.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Taiyuan canonical | 66 |
| Taiyuan City | 4 |
| Taiyuan metropolitan area | 2 |
| People's Republic of China (as Taiyuan) | 1 |
| Shanxi merchants (as Taiyuan) | 1 |
| Taiyuan city | 1 |
| Taiyuan, Shanxi Province | 1 |
| Taiyuan, Shanxi, China | 1 |
| downtown Taiyuan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T498583 — 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: Taiyuan Context triple: [North China, containsMajorCity, Taiyuan]
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A.
Shijiazhuang
Shijiazhuang is the capital and largest city of Hebei Province in northern China, known as a major industrial and transportation hub.
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B.
Tianjin
Tianjin is a major port city and industrial hub in northern China, located near Beijing along the Bohai Sea.
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C.
Beijing
Beijing is the capital city of China, a major political, cultural, and economic center known for its rich history and rapid modern development.
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D.
Lanzhou
Lanzhou is a major city in northwestern China and the capital of Gansu Province, known historically as a key hub on the ancient Silk Road.
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E.
Shenyang
Shenyang is a major industrial and historical city in northeastern China and the capital of Liaoning Province.
- 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: Taiyuan Target entity description: Taiyuan is the capital and largest city of Shanxi Province in northern China, known as an important industrial and transportation hub with a long imperial history.
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A.
Shijiazhuang
Shijiazhuang is the capital and largest city of Hebei Province in northern China, known as a major industrial and transportation hub.
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B.
Tianjin
Tianjin is a major port city and industrial hub in northern China, located near Beijing along the Bohai Sea.
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C.
Beijing
Beijing is the capital city of China, a major political, cultural, and economic center known for its rich history and rapid modern development.
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D.
Lanzhou
Lanzhou is a major city in northwestern China and the capital of Gansu Province, known historically as a key hub on the ancient Silk Road.
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E.
Shenyang
Shenyang is a major industrial and historical city in northeastern China and the capital of Liaoning Province.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Taiyuan Description of subject: Taiyuan is the capital and largest city of Shanxi Province in northern China, known as an important industrial and transportation hub with a long imperial history.
Referenced by (78)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
this entity surface form:
Taiyuan metropolitan area
this entity surface form:
downtown Taiyuan
this entity surface form:
Taiyuan metropolitan area
this entity surface form:
Taiyuan city
this entity surface form:
Shanxi merchants (as Taiyuan)
this entity surface form:
Taiyuan, Shanxi Province