Wáng Yí 王沂 (Yuán, fl. 1314–1362), zì Sīlǔ 思魯. Family origin from Yúnzhōng 雲中; relocated to Zhēndìng 真定 (Héběi). Father Wáng Yuánfù 王元父 reached Chéngshìláng and jiān Huángchí shuìwù; the family stele was composed by Mǎ Zǔcháng 馬祖常. Wáng Yí passed the jìnshì exam in Yányòu 2 (1315), the same year as Mǎ Zǔcháng. Held office sequentially as Línhuái xiànyǐn; assistant prefect of Yīyáng 伊陽 (Sōngzhōu) in 1317 (whence the collection-title Yībīn jí KR4d0500, from the line “綸巾羽服臥伊濱”); Guóshǐyuàn biānxiūguān by Zhìshùn 3 (1332); Guózǐ xué bóshì under Yuántǒng 3 (1335); examiner under Yuántǒng (in which year he was the zuǒkǎoshì who passed Yú Què 余闕); Hànlín dàizhì and Xuānwéngé duty by Zhìyuán 6 (1340); rising to Lǐbù shàngshàngshū by the completion of the SòngLiáoJīn histories in Zhìzhèng 5 (1345) where he is listed as zǒngcáiguān. The catalog meta does not give a Yuánshǐ biography because there is none — the Sìkù tíyào reconstructs his career from internal cross-references in the Yībīn jí itself. By Zhìzhèng 22 (1362), aged over 70, he was still alive and writing under the rebel siege of Nánpíng (poems Rényín jìyì, Línkòu bījìng cānghuáng nándù, etc.). The collection had been lost; the WYG editors reconstructed it from the Yǒnglè dàdiǎn into 24 juǎn.