Yangshan Huiji
E944100
Chan Buddhist master
Chinese Buddhist monk
Tang dynasty Buddhist monk
Zen master
founder of a Buddhist school
Yangshan Huiji was a prominent Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist master of the late Tang dynasty, regarded as the founder and namesake of the Guiyang school of Chan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yangshan Huiji canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11673418 — 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: Yangshan Huiji Context triple: [Guiyang school, namedAfter, Yangshan Huiji]
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A.
Gaotangling
Gaotangling is the town that serves as the administrative seat and political center of Wangcheng County in Hunan Province, China.
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B.
Xuefeng Yicun
Xuefeng Yicun was an influential Chinese Chan (Zen) master of the late Tang dynasty, known for helping shape the development of the Chan tradition through his teaching and disciples.
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C.
Yishan
Yishan was a Qing dynasty military commander and noble who led Chinese forces during the First Opium War against Britain.
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D.
Lishan Didan
Lishan Didan is a Jewish Neo-Aramaic language traditionally spoken by Kurdish and Azerbaijani Jews from the regions of northwestern Iran and eastern Turkey.
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E.
Jinshan
Jinshan is a suburban district in the southwest of Shanghai, China, known for its coastal location, industrial zones, and residential communities.
- 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: Yangshan Huiji Target entity description: Yangshan Huiji was a prominent Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist master of the late Tang dynasty, regarded as the founder and namesake of the Guiyang school of Chan.
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A.
Gaotangling
Gaotangling is the town that serves as the administrative seat and political center of Wangcheng County in Hunan Province, China.
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B.
Xuefeng Yicun
Xuefeng Yicun was an influential Chinese Chan (Zen) master of the late Tang dynasty, known for helping shape the development of the Chan tradition through his teaching and disciples.
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C.
Yishan
Yishan was a Qing dynasty military commander and noble who led Chinese forces during the First Opium War against Britain.
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D.
Lishan Didan
Lishan Didan is a Jewish Neo-Aramaic language traditionally spoken by Kurdish and Azerbaijani Jews from the regions of northwestern Iran and eastern Turkey.
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E.
Jinshan
Jinshan is a suburban district in the southwest of Shanghai, China, known for its coastal location, industrial zones, and residential communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chan Buddhist master
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Chinese Buddhist monk ⓘ Tang dynasty Buddhist monk ⓘ Zen master ⓘ founder of a Buddhist school ⓘ |
| activeInDynasty | Tang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activePeriod | late Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Chinese Chan tradition
ⓘ
Guiyang school NERFINISHED ⓘ Zen Buddhism in China ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Chinese Buddhism ⓘ |
| dharmaName | Huiji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eponymOf | Guiyang school NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | unknown ⓘ |
| founderOf | Guiyang school NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicalContext | Chinese mainland ⓘ |
| givenName | Huiji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra | medieval China ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of the Guiyang school of Chan
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later generations of Chan practitioners ⓘ |
| languageOfTeachings | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| nameInChinese | 仰山慧寂 ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableAs | founder and namesake of the Guiyang school of Chan ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a prominent Chan master of the late Tang dynasty
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being regarded as the founder of the Guiyang school ⓘ teaching Chan Buddhism ⓘ |
| occupation |
Buddhist monk
ⓘ
Chan master ⓘ religious teacher ⓘ |
| philosophicalFocus |
Chan meditation practice
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direct realization of Buddha-nature ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Chan Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInBuddhism | patriarch of the Guiyang school ⓘ |
| schoolOfBuddhism |
Chan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guiyang school NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tradition |
Chinese Chan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Zen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOfMonk | Mahāyāna Buddhist monk ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Chan Buddhism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
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: Yangshan Huiji Description of subject: Yangshan Huiji was a prominent Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhist master of the late Tang dynasty, regarded as the founder and namesake of the Guiyang school of Chan.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.