Kunming, China
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Kunming, China is a major city in southwest China that served as a key World War II air base and supply hub, notably for the American Volunteer Group known as the Flying Tigers.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kunming | 51 |
| Kunming, China canonical | 5 |
| Kunming urban area | 1 |
| Kunming, Yunnan, China | 1 |
| Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in China | 1 |
| 春城 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T701663 — 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: Kunming, China Context triple: [Flying Tigers, baseOfOperations, Kunming, China]
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Cathay City
Cathay City is Cathay Pacific’s purpose-built corporate headquarters complex located near Hong Kong International Airport, housing the airline’s main offices, training facilities, and support operations.
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Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province in southwestern China, known for its spicy cuisine, giant panda conservation centers, and long history as a major cultural and economic hub.
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X’ian, China
Xi’an is a major historic city in central China, best known as the ancient capital of several dynasties and home to the famed Terracotta Army.
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Chongqing
Chongqing is a vast inland metropolis in southwestern China known for its steep hilly terrain, spicy hotpot cuisine, and role as a major industrial and transportation hub along the upper Yangtze River.
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E.
Nanjing
Nanjing is a major city in eastern China, historically significant as a former national capital and cultural center, and now an important political, economic, and educational hub on the Yangtze River.
- 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: Kunming, China Target entity description: Kunming, China is a major city in southwest China that served as a key World War II air base and supply hub, notably for the American Volunteer Group known as the Flying Tigers.
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A.
Cathay City
Cathay City is Cathay Pacific’s purpose-built corporate headquarters complex located near Hong Kong International Airport, housing the airline’s main offices, training facilities, and support operations.
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B.
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province in southwestern China, known for its spicy cuisine, giant panda conservation centers, and long history as a major cultural and economic hub.
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C.
X’ian, China
Xi’an is a major historic city in central China, best known as the ancient capital of several dynasties and home to the famed Terracotta Army.
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D.
Chongqing
Chongqing is a vast inland metropolis in southwestern China known for its steep hilly terrain, spicy hotpot cuisine, and role as a major industrial and transportation hub along the upper Yangtze River.
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E.
Nanjing
Nanjing is a major city in eastern China, historically significant as a former national capital and cultural center, and now an important political, economic, and educational hub on the Yangtze River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Kunming, China Description of subject: Kunming, China is a major city in southwest China that served as a key World War II air base and supply hub, notably for the American Volunteer Group known as the Flying Tigers.
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kunming
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Kunming
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Kunming
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Kunming
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Kunming
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Kunming
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Kunming
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春城
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Kunming urban area
this entity surface form:
Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in China