Tea Horse Road
E88010
The Tea Horse Road was an ancient network of trade routes in Southwest China used primarily to transport tea to Tibet and beyond in exchange for horses, linking Chinese, Tibetan, and Southeast Asian cultures.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ancient Tea Horse Road | 1 |
| Ancient Tea Horse Road network | 1 |
| Tea Horse Road canonical | 1 |
| Yunnan–Tibet corridor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T702554 — 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: Tea Horse Road Context triple: [Silk Road routes, relatedConcept, Tea Horse Road]
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A.
Karakoram Highway
The Karakoram Highway is a high-altitude international road linking Pakistan and China through the Karakoram mountain range, renowned as one of the world’s highest paved routes and a key part of the ancient Silk Road corridor.
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B.
Kukum Highway
Kukum Highway is a major roadway in Honiara, the capital city of the Solomon Islands, serving as one of its primary transport arteries.
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C.
Burma Road
The Burma Road was a vital overland supply route used by the Allies during World War II to transport military aid from British-controlled Burma into China, helping sustain Chinese resistance against Japan.
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D.
China National Highway 106
China National Highway 106 is a major north–south trunk road in China that connects Beijing with Guangzhou, passing through several key provinces and cities along its route.
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E.
China National Highway 107
China National Highway 107 is a major north–south trunk road in China that connects Beijing with Shenzhen, passing through several key cities and regions along its route.
- 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: Tea Horse Road Target entity description: The Tea Horse Road was an ancient network of trade routes in Southwest China used primarily to transport tea to Tibet and beyond in exchange for horses, linking Chinese, Tibetan, and Southeast Asian cultures.
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A.
Karakoram Highway
The Karakoram Highway is a high-altitude international road linking Pakistan and China through the Karakoram mountain range, renowned as one of the world’s highest paved routes and a key part of the ancient Silk Road corridor.
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B.
Kukum Highway
Kukum Highway is a major roadway in Honiara, the capital city of the Solomon Islands, serving as one of its primary transport arteries.
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C.
Burma Road
The Burma Road was a vital overland supply route used by the Allies during World War II to transport military aid from British-controlled Burma into China, helping sustain Chinese resistance against Japan.
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D.
China National Highway 106
China National Highway 106 is a major north–south trunk road in China that connects Beijing with Guangzhou, passing through several key provinces and cities along its route.
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E.
China National Highway 107
China National Highway 107 is a major north–south trunk road in China that connects Beijing with Shenzhen, passing through several key cities and regions along its route.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
caravan route
ⓘ
cultural exchange route ⓘ historical trade route network ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Tea Horse Road
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Tea Horse Road
|
| commodity |
brick tea
ⓘ
medicinal herbs ⓘ salt ⓘ textiles ⓘ |
| connects |
Chinese culture
ⓘ
Southeast Asian cultures ⓘ Tibetan culture ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalRole |
facilitated cultural exchange
ⓘ
spread of Buddhism ⓘ spread of tea culture ⓘ |
| declineCause | modern transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| economicRole | facilitated long-distance trade ⓘ |
| exchangedFor | horses ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | important cultural heritage route in China ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Ancient China
ⓘ
surface form:
ancient China
imperial China ⓘ |
| influenced |
borderland economies
ⓘ
ethnic minority cultures in Southwest China ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
Himalayan region
ⓘ
Sichuan Basin ⓘ Tea Horse Road self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Yunnan–Tibet corridor
|
| locatedIn |
Southeast Asia
ⓘ
Southwest China ⓘ Tibet Autonomous Region ⓘ
surface form:
Tibet
|
| partOf | ancient Asian trade networks ⓘ |
| primaryCommodity | tea ⓘ |
| region |
Sichuan Province
ⓘ
surface form:
Sichuan
Tibetan Plateau ⓘ
surface form:
Tibet Plateau
Yunnan Province ⓘ
surface form:
Yunnan
|
| risk |
bandit attacks
ⓘ
harsh climate ⓘ landslides ⓘ |
| terrain |
high-altitude passes
ⓘ
mountainous ⓘ |
| tradeDirection |
horses from Tibet to China
ⓘ
tea from China to Tibet ⓘ |
| transportMode |
caravans
ⓘ
pack animals ⓘ |
| usedFor |
horse trade
ⓘ
tea trade ⓘ |
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: Tea Horse Road Description of subject: The Tea Horse Road was an ancient network of trade routes in Southwest China used primarily to transport tea to Tibet and beyond in exchange for horses, linking Chinese, Tibetan, and Southeast Asian cultures.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ancient Tea Horse Road
this entity surface form:
Yunnan–Tibet corridor
this entity surface form:
Ancient Tea Horse Road network