Cao Teng
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Cao Teng was a high-ranking eunuch official of the Eastern Han dynasty and the paternal grandfather of the warlord Cao Cao.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cao Teng canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9247215 — 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: Cao Teng Context triple: [Cao Cao, grandfather, Cao Teng]
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A.
Cao Wei
Cao Wei was a powerful Chinese state founded by the Cao family that ruled northern China during the Three Kingdoms period following the fall of the Han dynasty.
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B.
Cao Zhang
Cao Zhang was a military general and prince of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known as a son of warlord Cao Cao and a brother of the first Wei emperor, Cao Pi.
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C.
Wei Wenhou
Wei Wenhou was an early Warring States-period ruler credited with transforming the State of Wei into a powerful, reform-oriented kingdom in ancient China.
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D.
Sun Liang
Sun Liang was a young emperor of Eastern Wu during China’s Three Kingdoms period, whose short and turbulent reign was dominated by powerful regents.
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E.
Lü Bu
Lü Bu was a famed but notoriously treacherous warlord and warrior of the late Eastern Han dynasty, celebrated for his unmatched martial prowess and often depicted as the mightiest fighter of the Three Kingdoms era.
- 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: Cao Teng Target entity description: Cao Teng was a high-ranking eunuch official of the Eastern Han dynasty and the paternal grandfather of the warlord Cao Cao.
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A.
Cao Wei
Cao Wei was a powerful Chinese state founded by the Cao family that ruled northern China during the Three Kingdoms period following the fall of the Han dynasty.
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B.
Cao Zhang
Cao Zhang was a military general and prince of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period, known as a son of warlord Cao Cao and a brother of the first Wei emperor, Cao Pi.
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C.
Wei Wenhou
Wei Wenhou was an early Warring States-period ruler credited with transforming the State of Wei into a powerful, reform-oriented kingdom in ancient China.
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D.
Sun Liang
Sun Liang was a young emperor of Eastern Wu during China’s Three Kingdoms period, whose short and turbulent reign was dominated by powerful regents.
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E.
Lü Bu
Lü Bu was a famed but notoriously treacherous warlord and warrior of the late Eastern Han dynasty, celebrated for his unmatched martial prowess and often depicted as the mightiest fighter of the Three Kingdoms era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Han dynasty person
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eunuch ⓘ official ⓘ person ⓘ |
| country | Eastern Han dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynastyServed | Eastern Han dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Han Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | 2nd century ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| grandfatherOf | Cao Cao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Eastern Han dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFrom | Chinese historical records ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| name | Cao Teng NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a powerful eunuch at the Eastern Han court
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being the paternal grandfather of Cao Cao ⓘ |
| occupation |
court official
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eunuch ⓘ |
| partOf | Eastern Han bureaucracy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| paternalGrandfatherOf | Cao Cao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | high-ranking eunuch official ⓘ |
| region | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Cao Cao NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Han imperial court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStatus | court eunuch elite ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity | Chinese imperial court ⓘ |
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: Cao Teng Description of subject: Cao Teng was a high-ranking eunuch official of the Eastern Han dynasty and the paternal grandfather of the warlord Cao Cao.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.