Gaozu
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Gaozu was the temple name of Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the founder and first emperor of China’s Tang dynasty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gaozu canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10057168 — 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: Gaozu Context triple: [Emperor Gaozu of Tang, reignName, Gaozu]
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Gaozu
Gaozu is the posthumous temple name honoring the influential Cao Wei statesman and strategist Sima Yi, later revered as a dynastic founder figure.
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Emperor Gaozu of Han
Emperor Gaozu of Han was the founder and first emperor of China’s Han dynasty, rising from peasant origins to unify the country after the collapse of the Qin.
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Emperor Wen
Emperor Wen is the posthumous imperial title of Cao Pi, the founding emperor of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period.
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Emperor Wen
Emperor Wen is the posthumous temple name of Hong Taiji, the Qing dynasty ruler who consolidated Manchu power and laid the foundations for the conquest of China.
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Emperor Wen
Emperor Wen is the posthumous temple name honoring Emperor Taizong of the Song dynasty, reflecting his legacy as a key consolidator of early Song rule in China.
- 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: Gaozu Target entity description: Gaozu was the temple name of Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the founder and first emperor of China’s Tang dynasty.
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A.
Gaozu
Gaozu is the posthumous temple name honoring the influential Cao Wei statesman and strategist Sima Yi, later revered as a dynastic founder figure.
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B.
Emperor Gaozu of Han
Emperor Gaozu of Han was the founder and first emperor of China’s Han dynasty, rising from peasant origins to unify the country after the collapse of the Qin.
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C.
Emperor Wen
Emperor Wen is the posthumous imperial title of Cao Pi, the founding emperor of the state of Cao Wei during China’s Three Kingdoms period.
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Emperor Wen
Emperor Wen is the posthumous temple name honoring Emperor Taizong of the Song dynasty, reflecting his legacy as a key consolidator of early Song rule in China.
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Emperor Wen
Emperor Wen is the posthumous temple name of Hong Taiji, the Qing dynasty ruler who consolidated Manchu power and laid the foundations for the conquest of China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
emperor of China
ⓘ
founder of a dynasty ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| abdicatedInFavorOf | Emperor Taizong of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | transition from Sui to Tang ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Chang'an region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 566 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Xianling Mausoleum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capitalEstablished | Chang'an NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryRuled | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| courtesyName | Shude NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Chang'an NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathYear | 635 ⓘ |
| dynastyFounded | Tang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Early Tang period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eraNameUsed | Wude NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Han Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherOf |
Emperor Taizong of Tang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Li Jiancheng NERFINISHED ⓘ Li Yuanji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 7th century ⓘ |
| houseOrClan | Li clan of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| implementedPolicy |
restoration of civil service examinations
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tax reforms continuing Sui systems ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding the Tang dynasty
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stabilizing northern China after Sui collapse ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| militaryRankBeforeEmperor | Sui general ⓘ |
| motherOfTitle | Empress Dowager Dugu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | proclaimed emperor in 618 after rebellion against Sui ⓘ |
| overthrewDynasty | Sui dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| personalName | Li Yuan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Emperor of the Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| posthumousName | Emperor Gaozu of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Emperor Yang of Sui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfRule | East Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regnalTitle | Emperor Gaozu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 626 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 618 ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
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Taoism ⓘ |
| royalHouse | House of Li NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Sui dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Empress Taimu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Emperor Taizong of Tang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| templeName | Gaozu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| templeNameUsedIn | Imperial ancestral rites of Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| title | Grand Commandant under Sui ⓘ |
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: Gaozu Description of subject: Gaozu was the temple name of Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the founder and first emperor of China’s Tang dynasty.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.