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Standard accounts record Jing Ke’s failed assassination attempt on the King of Qin

This Fact stores the received attempt as evidence of resistance to Qin’s rise, not as a successful tyrannicide. Failed assassination is not a rights statute. In the causal graph this event strengthens Protection of Minority Rights, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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The king survived. This Fact stores the received attempt as evidence of resistance to Qin’s rise, not as a successful tyrannicide.

Context

Failed assassination is not a rights statute. It is a dated resistance event in the received narrative.

Qin Shi Huang is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Resistance paths can be improving in intent and still fail.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Qin Shi Huang

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.2 · verified

    Court act under the First Emperor as received or as excavated. Later books and museums publish it.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactStandard accounts record Jing Ke’s failed assassination attempt on the King of Qin
    2. strengthensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.2 · Effect from 1 January 1961 · verified

    Resistance paths can be improving in intent and still fail.

    • Having a say in government

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.09 (weight 0.2 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.09 (weight 0.2 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Qin Shi HuangEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site MuseumEmperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Shiji records Jing Ke’s attempt to kill Zheng of Qin on behalf of Yan before unification.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorQin Shi Huang
  2. contributed toFactStandard accounts record Jing Ke’s failed assassination attempt on the King of Qin
  3. strengthensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Standard accounts record Jing Ke’s failed assassination attempt on the King of Qin. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cn-jing-ke-assassination-attempt

https://factrail.ai/facts/cn-jing-ke-assassination-attempt

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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