Liu Gongquan
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Liu Gongquan was a renowned Tang dynasty Chinese calligrapher celebrated for his upright, vigorous regular script that became a major model in later calligraphic tradition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Liu Gongquan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10057550 — 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: Liu Gongquan Context triple: [Yan Zhenqing, teacherOf, Liu Gongquan]
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A.
Yan Zhenqing
Yan Zhenqing was a renowned Tang dynasty statesman, general, and one of China’s most celebrated calligraphers, famed for his vigorous and upright regular script.
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B.
Wang Xianzhi
Wang Xianzhi was a late Tang dynasty rebel leader who, alongside Huang Chao, led a major uprising that severely weakened imperial authority.
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C.
Fude Zhengshen
Fude Zhengshen is a Chinese folk deity revered as a god of wealth and good fortune, often identified with the earth god Tudigong in local religious practice.
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D.
Du Gongbu
Du Gongbu, better known as Du Fu, was a preeminent Tang dynasty Chinese poet renowned for his profound social conscience and masterful, influential verse.
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E.
He Zhizhang
He Zhizhang was a prominent Tang dynasty poet and official known for his refined literary style and contributions to classical Chinese poetry.
- 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: Liu Gongquan Target entity description: Liu Gongquan was a renowned Tang dynasty Chinese calligrapher celebrated for his upright, vigorous regular script that became a major model in later calligraphic tradition.
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A.
Yan Zhenqing
Yan Zhenqing was a renowned Tang dynasty statesman, general, and one of China’s most celebrated calligraphers, famed for his vigorous and upright regular script.
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B.
Wang Xianzhi
Wang Xianzhi was a late Tang dynasty rebel leader who, alongside Huang Chao, led a major uprising that severely weakened imperial authority.
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C.
Fude Zhengshen
Fude Zhengshen is a Chinese folk deity revered as a god of wealth and good fortune, often identified with the earth god Tudigong in local religious practice.
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D.
Du Gongbu
Du Gongbu, better known as Du Fu, was a preeminent Tang dynasty Chinese poet renowned for his profound social conscience and masterful, influential verse.
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E.
He Zhizhang
He Zhizhang was a prominent Tang dynasty poet and official known for his refined literary style and contributions to classical Chinese poetry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese calligrapher
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Tang dynasty person ⓘ human ⓘ |
| artForm | ink brush calligraphy ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Confucian moral ideals in calligraphy ⓘ |
| canonicalRank | one of the great masters of regular script ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | standard of orthodox regular script ⓘ |
| dynasty | Tang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Middle Tang period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Liu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | Chinese calligraphy ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
epigraphic calligraphy
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model calligraphy ⓘ stele inscriptions ⓘ |
| givenName | Gongquan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
austere aesthetic
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moral uprightness associated with his script style ⓘ structural precision ⓘ |
| influenced |
Ming dynasty calligraphy
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Qing dynasty calligraphy ⓘ Song dynasty calligraphy ⓘ later Chinese calligraphers ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Yan Zhenqing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| medium |
paper
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stone stele ⓘ |
| movement | Tang calligraphy ⓘ |
| name | Liu Gongquan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | 柳公權 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notability | major model of regular script in later tradition ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mysterious Tower Stele
NERFINISHED
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Shence Army Stele NERFINISHED ⓘ Xuanmi Pagoda Stele NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
calligrapher
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official ⓘ |
| partOf | history of Chinese calligraphy ⓘ |
| region | Chang'an NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
regular script
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upright script ⓘ vigorous script ⓘ |
| taught | students of imperial academy (calligraphy) ⓘ |
| tradition | Chinese literati culture ⓘ |
| usedFor | model for later calligraphy education ⓘ |
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: Liu Gongquan Description of subject: Liu Gongquan was a renowned Tang dynasty Chinese calligrapher celebrated for his upright, vigorous regular script that became a major model in later calligraphic tradition.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.