Weathercock House
E148528
Weathercock House is a historic Western-style residence in Kobe, Japan, known for its distinctive weathercock-topped spire and status as a prominent symbol of the Kitano-cho district.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bluff 18 House | 1 |
| Weathercock House canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1280511 — 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: Weathercock House Context triple: [Kitano-cho, hasLandmark, Weathercock House]
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A.
Blackwell House
Blackwell House is a historic 18th-century farmhouse on Roosevelt Island in New York City, recognized as one of the island’s oldest surviving buildings.
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B.
Winfield House
Winfield House is a historic Georgian-style mansion in Regent's Park, London, that serves as the official residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
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C.
York House
York House is a historic wing within the St James's Palace complex in central London, traditionally associated with members of the British royal family.
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D.
Kenwood House
Kenwood House is a historic neoclassical villa on the edge of Hampstead Heath in London, renowned for its impressive art collection and landscaped grounds.
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E.
Henry House
Henry House is a historic home and key landmark on the Manassas National Battlefield in Virginia, associated with major Civil War fighting.
- 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: Weathercock House Target entity description: Weathercock House is a historic Western-style residence in Kobe, Japan, known for its distinctive weathercock-topped spire and status as a prominent symbol of the Kitano-cho district.
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A.
Blackwell House
Blackwell House is a historic 18th-century farmhouse on Roosevelt Island in New York City, recognized as one of the island’s oldest surviving buildings.
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B.
Winfield House
Winfield House is a historic Georgian-style mansion in Regent's Park, London, that serves as the official residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
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C.
York House
York House is a historic wing within the St James's Palace complex in central London, traditionally associated with members of the British royal family.
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D.
Kenwood House
Kenwood House is a historic neoclassical villa on the edge of Hampstead Heath in London, renowned for its impressive art collection and landscaped grounds.
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E.
Henry House
Henry House is a historic home and key landmark on the Manassas National Battlefield in Virginia, associated with major Civil War fighting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western-style residence
ⓘ
cultural property ⓘ historic house ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| era |
Meiji era
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surface form:
Meiji period
|
| hasArchitecturalStyle |
Western-style architecture
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brick construction ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
decorative weather vane
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red brick exterior ⓘ steep gabled roof ⓘ tower ⓘ weathercock-topped spire ⓘ |
| hasView |
Kobe cityscape
ⓘ
Port of Kobe ⓘ
surface form:
Kobe harbor
|
| heritageDesignation |
Important Cultural Properties of Japan
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surface form:
Important Cultural Property of Japan
designated cultural property of Kobe ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chuo-ku, Kobe
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Hyogo Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Japan ⓘ Kitano-cho district ⓘ Kobe, Hyogo, Japan ⓘ
surface form:
Kobe
|
| notableFor |
being one of the best-known Western-style houses in Kobe
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distinctive weathercock ornament ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| partOf |
Kitano Ijinkan area
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surface form:
Ijinkan (foreign residences) area of Kobe
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| symbolOf |
Kitano-cho district
ⓘ
Kobe as a port city ⓘ |
| usedFor |
museum
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
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: Weathercock House Description of subject: Weathercock House is a historic Western-style residence in Kobe, Japan, known for its distinctive weathercock-topped spire and status as a prominent symbol of the Kitano-cho district.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bluff 18 House