Zhou royal house
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The Zhou royal house was the ruling dynasty of ancient China that established the Zhou Dynasty, overseeing a feudal order and shaping early Chinese political and cultural foundations.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zhou royal court | 2 |
| Zhou royal house canonical | 1 |
| royal house of Zhou | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9668056 — 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: Zhou royal house Context triple: [Rebellion of the Three Guards, hasParticipant, Zhou royal house]
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A.
House of Liu
The House of Liu was the imperial clan that founded and ruled China’s Han dynasty, one of the most influential dynasties in Chinese history.
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B.
Sima clan
The Sima clan was a powerful Chinese family that rose to dominance as regents of the Cao Wei state and ultimately founded the Jin dynasty, unifying China in the 3rd century.
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C.
House of Jiang
The House of Jiang was the ruling clan that established and governed the ancient Chinese state of Qi during the Zhou dynasty period.
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D.
House of Zhao
The House of Zhao was the hereditary royal clan that ruled the ancient Chinese state of Zhao during the Warring States period.
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E.
House of Zhao
The House of Zhao was the imperial family that founded and ruled China’s Song dynasty, overseeing a period of major economic, cultural, and technological development.
- 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: Zhou royal house Target entity description: The Zhou royal house was the ruling dynasty of ancient China that established the Zhou Dynasty, overseeing a feudal order and shaping early Chinese political and cultural foundations.
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A.
House of Liu
The House of Liu was the imperial clan that founded and ruled China’s Han dynasty, one of the most influential dynasties in Chinese history.
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B.
Sima clan
The Sima clan was a powerful Chinese family that rose to dominance as regents of the Cao Wei state and ultimately founded the Jin dynasty, unifying China in the 3rd century.
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C.
House of Jiang
The House of Jiang was the ruling clan that established and governed the ancient Chinese state of Qi during the Zhou dynasty period.
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D.
House of Zhao
The House of Zhao was the imperial family that founded and ruled China’s Song dynasty, overseeing a period of major economic, cultural, and technological development.
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E.
House of Zhao
The House of Zhao was the hereditary royal clan that ruled the ancient Chinese state of Zhao during the Warring States period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
royal house
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ruling dynasty ⓘ |
| battle | Battle of Muye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital |
Haojing
NERFINISHED
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Luoyi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalLegacy |
Zhou feudal hierarchy
NERFINISHED
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Zhou rites and music system NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhou ritual system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 256 BCE ⓘ |
| era |
Eastern Zhou
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spring and Autumn period NERFINISHED ⓘ Warring States period NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese (early) cultural sphere ⓘ |
| followed | Shang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Qin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder |
Ji Fa
NERFINISHED
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King Wu of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentForm | feudal monarchy ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Ji Chang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
King Wen of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLegendaryAncestor | Hou Ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Bronze Age China
NERFINISHED
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Iron Age China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Confucianism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Daoism NERFINISHED ⓘ Legalism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedConcept | Mandate of Heaven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Old Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legitimizingDoctrine | Mandate of Heaven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleClanName | Ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableConcept | Mandate of Heaven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overthrew | Shang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | feudal order ⓘ |
| precededBy | Shang royal house NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Guanzhong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yellow River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Chinese folk religion
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ancestor worship ⓘ |
| royalHouseOf | Zhou state NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shaped |
early Chinese cultural foundations
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early Chinese political foundations ⓘ |
| startTime | c. 1046 BCE ⓘ |
| successorState | Qin state NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedTitle | King of Zhou 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: Zhou royal house Description of subject: The Zhou royal house was the ruling dynasty of ancient China that established the Zhou Dynasty, overseeing a feudal order and shaping early Chinese political and cultural foundations.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mao Gong Ding
this entity surface form:
Zhou royal court
this entity surface form:
royal house of Zhou