Sand and Stone Garden
E11525
Sand and Stone Garden is a traditional karesansui (dry landscape) rock garden within the Portland Japanese Garden, featuring carefully raked gravel and strategically placed stones to evoke natural landscapes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sand and Stone Garden canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T54883 — 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: Sand and Stone Garden Context triple: [Portland Japanese Garden, hasFeature, Sand and Stone Garden]
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A.
Windmill Island Gardens
Windmill Island Gardens is a Dutch-themed park in Holland, Michigan, featuring an authentic working windmill, seasonal gardens, and cultural attractions.
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B.
Rose Garden
The Rose Garden is a prominent outdoor space at the White House used for presidential ceremonies, press conferences, and official events.
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C.
The Backs
The Backs is a picturesque area in Cambridge where several historic college buildings back onto landscaped gardens along the River Cam.
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D.
The Botanic Garden
The Botanic Garden is an 18th-century didactic poem by Erasmus Darwin that blends poetic descriptions of plants with early evolutionary ideas and Enlightenment science.
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E.
Lookout Farm
Lookout Farm is the English meaning of “Finca Vigía,” the Cuban hillside estate where Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote several of his major works.
- 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: Sand and Stone Garden Target entity description: Sand and Stone Garden is a traditional karesansui (dry landscape) rock garden within the Portland Japanese Garden, featuring carefully raked gravel and strategically placed stones to evoke natural landscapes.
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A.
Windmill Island Gardens
Windmill Island Gardens is a Dutch-themed park in Holland, Michigan, featuring an authentic working windmill, seasonal gardens, and cultural attractions.
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B.
Rose Garden
The Rose Garden is a prominent outdoor space at the White House used for presidential ceremonies, press conferences, and official events.
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C.
The Backs
The Backs is a picturesque area in Cambridge where several historic college buildings back onto landscaped gardens along the River Cam.
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D.
The Botanic Garden
The Botanic Garden is an 18th-century didactic poem by Erasmus Darwin that blends poetic descriptions of plants with early evolutionary ideas and Enlightenment science.
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E.
Lookout Farm
Lookout Farm is the English meaning of “Finca Vigía,” the Cuban hillside estate where Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote several of his major works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dry landscape garden
ⓘ
karesansui garden ⓘ rock garden ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalContext |
Chan Buddhism
ⓘ
surface form:
Japanese Zen Buddhism
|
| designedToEvokes | natural landscapes ⓘ |
| gardenType | dry garden ⓘ |
| hasAccessibility | viewed from designated paths or viewing areas ⓘ |
| hasDesignElement |
raked linear patterns in gravel
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symbolic representation of mountains ⓘ symbolic representation of water ⓘ |
| hasPart |
carefully raked gravel
ⓘ
strategically placed stones ⓘ |
| intendedUse |
contemplation
ⓘ
meditation ⓘ |
| landscapeAbstraction |
mountains and rivers
ⓘ
seas and islands ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Portland Japanese Garden
ⓘ
Portland, Oregon, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Portland, Oregon
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| maintenanceMethod | hand-raked gravel patterns ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Portland Japanese Garden
ⓘ
surface form:
Portland Japanese Garden organization
|
| partOf | Portland Japanese Garden ⓘ |
| primaryColorPalette | neutral tones ⓘ |
| style |
Japanese garden
ⓘ
Zen garden ⓘ |
| usesMaterial |
gravel
ⓘ
sand ⓘ stone ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Sand and Stone Garden Description of subject: Sand and Stone Garden is a traditional karesansui (dry landscape) rock garden within the Portland Japanese Garden, featuring carefully raked gravel and strategically placed stones to evoke natural landscapes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.