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Yang Jian

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2024
Entity authorityQ1220251 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yang Jian or Jian Yang may refer to:

Historical figures

Emperor Wen of Sui (541–604), personal name Yang Jian, founder and emperor of the Sui dynasty

Yang Jian (Sui prince) (585–618), Sui dynasty prince and Emperor Wen's grandson

Yang Jian (Song dynasty) (died 1121), Song dynasty eunuch politician

Sportspeople

Yang Jian (rower) (born 1981), Chinese rower

Yang Jian (footballer) (born 1988), Chinese footballer

Yang Jian (diver) (born 1994), Chinese diver

Others

Erlang Shen, personal name Yang Jian, a mythological Chinese God

New Gods: Yang Jian, 2022 animation film based on the character of Erlang Shen

Jian Yang (politician) (born c.

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The public source identifies “Yang Jian” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Yang, Jian and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1121, 1981, 1988, 1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Yang, Jian and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1220251. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1121, 1981, 1988 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yang Jian” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.