House of a Thousand Orifices
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House of a Thousand Orifices is the colloquial nickname for Jardine House, a landmark Hong Kong skyscraper distinguished by its grid of circular windows.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| House of a Thousand Orifices canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12823107 — 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: House of a Thousand Orifices Context triple: [Jardine House, nickname, House of a Thousand Orifices]
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A.
The Hole
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B.
The Door in the Floor
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C.
Thing from Below
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D.
Cathedral of Erotic Misery
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E.
The Great Indoors
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- 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: House of a Thousand Orifices Target entity description: House of a Thousand Orifices is the colloquial nickname for Jardine House, a landmark Hong Kong skyscraper distinguished by its grid of circular windows.
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A.
The Hole
The Hole is a 2001 British psychological horror-thriller film about a group of private school students who become trapped in an underground bunker.
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B.
The Door in the Floor
The Door in the Floor is a 2004 drama film based on John Irving’s novel "A Widow for One Year," exploring grief, infidelity, and loss in an affluent New England setting.
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C.
Thing from Below
Thing from Below is a Shaman-class legendary minion from Hearthstone’s Whispers of the Old Gods expansion, known for its powerful cost-reduction effect tied to summoning Totems.
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D.
Cathedral of Erotic Misery
Cathedral of Erotic Misery is an alternate name for Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau, an influential and immersive Dada/Constructivist sculptural environment built inside his home in Hanover.
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E.
The Great Indoors
The Great Indoors is an American sitcom starring Joel McHale as a magazine reporter who must adapt to managing a team of millennial digital journalists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | nickname ⓘ |
| appliedTo |
office building
ⓘ
skyscraper ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hong Kong skyline
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jardine Matheson headquarters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colloquialNameFor | Jardine House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| distinguishedBy |
grid of circular windows
ⓘ
round windows on facade ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole | iconic nickname in Hong Kong popular culture ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature | numerous circular window openings ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central, Hong Kong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hong Kong, China ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
|
| refersTo | Jardine House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refersToBuildingArchitect | Palmer & Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refersToBuildingCompletedIn | 1972 ⓘ |
| refersToBuildingCurrentName | Jardine House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refersToBuildingDistrict | Central and Western District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refersToBuildingFloorCount | 52 ⓘ |
| refersToBuildingHeight | approximately 178 metres ⓘ |
| refersToBuildingOriginalName | Connaught Centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refersToBuildingOwner | Hongkong Land NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refersToBuildingRegion | Hong Kong Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refersToBuildingUse | commercial offices ⓘ |
| usedAs | informal nickname ⓘ |
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: House of a Thousand Orifices Description of subject: House of a Thousand Orifices is the colloquial nickname for Jardine House, a landmark Hong Kong skyscraper distinguished by its grid of circular windows.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.