King Xuan of Zhou
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King Xuan of Zhou was a monarch of the Western Zhou dynasty in ancient China, known for temporarily revitalizing royal authority and stabilizing the kingdom after a period of decline.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| King Xuan of Zhou canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10495670 — 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: King Xuan of Zhou Context triple: [King You of Zhou, predecessor, King Xuan of Zhou]
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King Xian of Zhou
King Xian of Zhou was a late monarch of China’s Zhou dynasty who ruled during its declining Eastern Zhou period.
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King Ping of Zhou
King Ping of Zhou was an early Eastern Zhou monarch who moved the capital east to Luoyang, marking the decline of royal power and the start of the Eastern Zhou period in ancient China.
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C.
King Ji of Zhou
King Ji of Zhou was an early Zhou dynasty ruler in ancient China, known primarily as the son and successor of the dynasty’s founder, King Wen of Zhou.
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King Cheng of Zhou
King Cheng of Zhou was an early Western Zhou dynasty ruler in ancient China, known for consolidating royal authority and granting hereditary fiefs to regional clans and nobles.
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King You of Zhou
King You of Zhou was the last king of the Western Zhou dynasty, infamous for his misrule and the events that led to the dynasty’s collapse.
- 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: King Xuan of Zhou Target entity description: King Xuan of Zhou was a monarch of the Western Zhou dynasty in ancient China, known for temporarily revitalizing royal authority and stabilizing the kingdom after a period of decline.
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A.
King Xian of Zhou
King Xian of Zhou was a late monarch of China’s Zhou dynasty who ruled during its declining Eastern Zhou period.
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B.
King Ping of Zhou
King Ping of Zhou was an early Eastern Zhou monarch who moved the capital east to Luoyang, marking the decline of royal power and the start of the Eastern Zhou period in ancient China.
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C.
King Ji of Zhou
King Ji of Zhou was an early Zhou dynasty ruler in ancient China, known primarily as the son and successor of the dynasty’s founder, King Wen of Zhou.
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D.
King Cheng of Zhou
King Cheng of Zhou was an early Western Zhou dynasty ruler in ancient China, known for consolidating royal authority and granting hereditary fiefs to regional clans and nobles.
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E.
King You of Zhou
King You of Zhou was the last king of the Western Zhou dynasty, infamous for his misrule and the events that led to the dynasty’s collapse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Zhou
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historical figure ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Mandate of Heaven doctrine ⓘ |
| authorityControl | QID: Q312505 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Zhou royal cemetery (approximate) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital |
Fenghao
NERFINISHED
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Haojing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | King You of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chronologicalPlacement | before the Spring and Autumn period ⓘ |
| country | Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Zhou Chinese ⓘ |
| dynasty | Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Western Zhou period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Zhou Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | King Li of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Jing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentForm | hereditary monarchy ⓘ |
| house | House of Ji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
military campaigns against western and northern tribes
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restoration of the prestige of the Zhou royal house ⓘ revitalizing royal authority of the Zhou kings ⓘ temporarily stabilizing the Zhou kingdom after decline ⓘ |
| language | Old Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Queen Shen of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | zh ⓘ |
| nativeName | 周宣王 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | partial restoration of Zhou central power after the Gong–Li decline ⓘ |
| periodOfRule |
8th century BC
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9th century BC ⓘ |
| personalName | Ji Jing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of the Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posthumousName | Xuan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | King Gong of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Ancient China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | c. 782 BC ⓘ |
| reignName | King Xuan of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignStart | c. 827 BC ⓘ |
| religion | Zhou state religion ⓘ |
| royalTitle | King of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Queen Jiang of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdynasty | Western Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | King You of Zhou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorState | Western Zhou kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| templeName | Xuanwang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleHeld | Son of Heaven 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: King Xuan of Zhou Description of subject: King Xuan of Zhou was a monarch of the Western Zhou dynasty in ancient China, known for temporarily revitalizing royal authority and stabilizing the kingdom after a period of decline.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.