Muzhou Daoming
E941545
Muzhou Daoming was a prominent Tang dynasty Chan (Zen) master of the Yunmen school, known for his sharp, unconventional teaching style and influential role in the development of Chinese Zen Buddhism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Muzhou Daoming canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11673124 — 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: Muzhou Daoming Context triple: [Yunmen Wenyan, teacher, Muzhou Daoming]
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A.
Xian Tong
Xian Tong was the era name used during the reign of Emperor Yizong of the Tang dynasty in China.
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B.
Wu Men
Wu Men, also known as the Meridian Gate, is the grand southern entrance and main ceremonial gate of Beijing’s Forbidden City.
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C.
Heze Shenhui
Heze Shenhui was an influential early Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist monk known for vigorously promoting the Southern School associated with Huineng and shaping the later development of Chan doctrine.
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D.
Mao Ling
Mao Ling is the mausoleum complex that serves as the imperial tomb of the Ming dynasty Chenghua Emperor in China.
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E.
Ma Sichun
Ma Sichun is a Chinese actress known for her acclaimed film and television roles, including winning the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress.
- 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: Muzhou Daoming Target entity description: Muzhou Daoming was a prominent Tang dynasty Chan (Zen) master of the Yunmen school, known for his sharp, unconventional teaching style and influential role in the development of Chinese Zen Buddhism.
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A.
Xian Tong
Xian Tong was the era name used during the reign of Emperor Yizong of the Tang dynasty in China.
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B.
Wu Men
Wu Men, also known as the Meridian Gate, is the grand southern entrance and main ceremonial gate of Beijing’s Forbidden City.
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C.
Heze Shenhui
Heze Shenhui was an influential early Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist monk known for vigorously promoting the Southern School associated with Huineng and shaping the later development of Chan doctrine.
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D.
Mao Ling
Mao Ling is the mausoleum complex that serves as the imperial tomb of the Ming dynasty Chenghua Emperor in China.
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E.
Ma Sichun
Ma Sichun is a Chinese actress known for her acclaimed film and television roles, including winning the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist monk
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Chan master ⓘ Tang dynasty person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Yunmen school of Chan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Chinese Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Tang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | classical Chan period ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of Chinese Chan Buddhism
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later Yunmen school monks ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influential role in Chinese Zen Buddhism
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sharp teaching style ⓘ unconventional teaching methods ⓘ |
| language | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| movement | Chinese Zen Buddhism ⓘ |
| notablePeriod | late Tang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
Chan teacher
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Zen master ⓘ |
| philosophicalDiscipline |
Buddhist philosophy
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Chan practice ⓘ |
| region | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousOrder | Buddhist monastic community ⓘ |
| role | Chan lineage teacher ⓘ |
| school | Yunmen school NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teachingStyle |
abrupt
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direct ⓘ paradoxical ⓘ |
| tradition |
Chan Buddhism
NERFINISHED
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Zen Buddhism 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: Muzhou Daoming Description of subject: Muzhou Daoming was a prominent Tang dynasty Chan (Zen) master of the Yunmen school, known for his sharp, unconventional teaching style and influential role in the development of Chinese Zen Buddhism.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.