Customs House
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Customs House is a historic neoclassical waterfront building on Shanghai’s Bund, long serving as a key symbol of the city’s colonial-era commercial and maritime trade.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Customs House canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1910597 — 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: Customs House Context triple: [The Bund, hasLandmarkBuilding, Customs House]
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A.
United States Custom House
The United States Custom House is a historic federal building in New York City that once served as the primary customs collection point for the bustling port, reflecting the city’s central role in American trade and finance.
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B.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
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C.
Central Wharf
Central Wharf is a historic waterfront pier in Salem, Massachusetts, that served as a key hub for the city’s early American maritime trade and commerce.
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D.
Central Wharf
Central Wharf is a historic waterfront area in downtown Boston that hosts attractions such as the New England Aquarium and offers access to harbor views and maritime activities.
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E.
Old Post Office Pavilion
The Old Post Office Pavilion is a historic late-19th-century federal building and former post office in Washington, D.C., known for its Romanesque Revival architecture and prominent clock tower offering panoramic city views.
- 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: Customs House Target entity description: Customs House is a historic neoclassical waterfront building on Shanghai’s Bund, long serving as a key symbol of the city’s colonial-era commercial and maritime trade.
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A.
United States Custom House
The United States Custom House is a historic federal building in New York City that once served as the primary customs collection point for the bustling port, reflecting the city’s central role in American trade and finance.
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B.
Adams Building
The Adams Building is one of the main Library of Congress buildings in Washington, D.C., housing extensive research collections and reading rooms.
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C.
Central Wharf
Central Wharf is a historic waterfront pier in Salem, Massachusetts, that served as a key hub for the city’s early American maritime trade and commerce.
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D.
Central Wharf
Central Wharf is a historic waterfront area in downtown Boston that hosts attractions such as the New England Aquarium and offers access to harbor views and maritime activities.
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E.
Old Post Office Pavilion
The Old Post Office Pavilion is a historic late-19th-century federal building and former post office in Washington, D.C., known for its Romanesque Revival architecture and prominent clock tower offering panoramic city views.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
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customs house ⓘ historic site ⓘ |
| architecturalFeature |
clock tower
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colonnade ⓘ symmetrical façade ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Shanghai’s international trade history
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colonial-era commercial activity on The Bund ⓘ |
| category |
government buildings in Shanghai
ⓘ
neoclassical buildings in Shanghai ⓘ waterfront buildings in Shanghai ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalRole | iconic image in representations of The Bund ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century Shanghai ⓘ |
| facing | Pudong across the Huangpu River ⓘ |
| function |
customs administration
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maritime trade control ⓘ |
| hasView |
Huangpu River
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surface form:
Huangpu River shipping lanes
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| heritage |
symbol of Shanghai’s colonial-era commercial trade
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symbol of Shanghai’s maritime trade ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Huangpu District, Shanghai ⓘ |
| locatedOn | east side of Zhongshan Road (The Bund) ⓘ |
| location |
The Bund
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surface form:
The Bund, Shanghai
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| locationCity | Shanghai ⓘ |
| locationCountry | China ⓘ |
| material |
reinforced concrete
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stone ⓘ |
| overlooks | Huangpu River ⓘ |
| partOf |
The Bund
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surface form:
The Bund waterfront historic ensemble
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| significance |
key symbol of Shanghai’s waterfront skyline
ⓘ
landmark of Shanghai’s foreign concessions era ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Shanghai’s integration into global maritime trade networks
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Shanghai’s role as a treaty port ⓘ |
| urbanContext | historic financial and commercial district of Shanghai ⓘ |
| use |
customs offices
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government offices ⓘ |
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: Customs House Description of subject: Customs House is a historic neoclassical waterfront building on Shanghai’s Bund, long serving as a key symbol of the city’s colonial-era commercial and maritime trade.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.