Xinhai (辛亥)
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Xinhai (辛亥) is the traditional Chinese cyclical year designation corresponding to 1911, the year in which the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the Qing dynasty and ended imperial rule in China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Xinhai (辛亥) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11895804 — 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: Xinhai (辛亥) Context triple: [Xinhai Revolution, calendarYear, Xinhai (辛亥)]
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A.
Taiping Xingguo
Taiping Xingguo was an era name used during the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Song dynasty, marking a specific period in early Song imperial history.
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B.
Cai E
Cai E was a prominent early 20th-century Chinese revolutionary and military leader best known for opposing Yuan Shikai’s attempt to restore the monarchy.
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C.
Huang Xing
Huang Xing was a prominent Chinese revolutionary leader and close ally of Sun Yat-sen who played a key role in overthrowing the Qing dynasty and founding the Republic of China.
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D.
Sun Yixian
Sun Yixian, better known as Sun Yat-sen, was a Chinese revolutionary leader and founding father of the Republic of China who played a key role in overthrowing the Qing dynasty.
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E.
Yíhéyuán
Yíhéyuán is the famed imperial garden complex in Beijing known in English as the Summer Palace, celebrated for its vast lake, ornate palaces, and classical Chinese landscape design.
- 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: Xinhai (辛亥) Target entity description: Xinhai (辛亥) is the traditional Chinese cyclical year designation corresponding to 1911, the year in which the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the Qing dynasty and ended imperial rule in China.
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A.
Taiping Xingguo
Taiping Xingguo was an era name used during the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Song dynasty, marking a specific period in early Song imperial history.
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B.
Cai E
Cai E was a prominent early 20th-century Chinese revolutionary and military leader best known for opposing Yuan Shikai’s attempt to restore the monarchy.
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C.
Huang Xing
Huang Xing was a prominent Chinese revolutionary leader and close ally of Sun Yat-sen who played a key role in overthrowing the Qing dynasty and founding the Republic of China.
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D.
Sun Yixian
Sun Yixian, better known as Sun Yat-sen, was a Chinese revolutionary leader and founding father of the Republic of China who played a key role in overthrowing the Qing dynasty.
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E.
Yíhéyuán
Yíhéyuán is the famed imperial garden complex in Beijing known in English as the Summer Palace, celebrated for its vast lake, ornate palaces, and classical Chinese landscape design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese cyclical year designation
ⓘ
sexagenary cycle year ⓘ |
| appliesToLunisolarYearThatOverlaps | 1911 Gregorian year ⓘ |
| associatedHistoricalEvent | Xinhai Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynastyChange | fall of the Qing dynasty GENERATED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEndOf | imperial rule in China GENERATED ⓘ |
| associatedZodiacAnimal | Pig GENERATED ⓘ |
| calendarRegion |
China
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
historical Japan ⓘ historical Korea ⓘ historical Vietnam ⓘ |
| calendarSystem | lunisolar ⓘ |
| category |
Chinese calendar terms
ⓘ
Sexagenary cycle years ⓘ |
| Chinese characters | 辛亥 ⓘ |
| correspondsToGregorianYear | 1911 ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Chinese culture
ⓘ
East Asian calendars ⓘ |
| EarthlyBranch | Hai ⓘ |
| EarthlyBranchChinese | 亥 ⓘ |
| EarthlyBranchElement | water ⓘ |
| EarthlyBranchYinYang | yin ⓘ |
| follows | Gengxu ⓘ |
| hasElement | metal yin ⓘ |
| HeavenlyStem | Xin ⓘ |
| HeavenlyStemChinese | 辛 ⓘ |
| HeavenlyStemElement | metal ⓘ |
| HeavenlyStemYinYang | yin ⓘ |
| ISOYearCodeExample | 1911-辛亥 ⓘ |
| language | Chinese ⓘ |
| linkedEventNameOrigin | Xinhai Revolution named after the year designation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableGregorianOccurrences |
1851
GENERATED
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1911 GENERATED ⓘ 1971 GENERATED ⓘ 2031 GENERATED ⓘ |
| occursEvery | 60 years ⓘ |
| positionInSexagenaryCycle | 48 ⓘ |
| precedes | Renzi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanizationPinyin | Xīnhài NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanizationWadeGiles | Hsin-hai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
day designation
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hour designation ⓘ year designation ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Chinese sexagenary cycle
ⓘ
traditional Chinese calendar ⓘ |
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: Xinhai (辛亥) Description of subject: Xinhai (辛亥) is the traditional Chinese cyclical year designation corresponding to 1911, the year in which the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the Qing dynasty and ended imperial rule in China.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.