HSBC Building
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The HSBC Building is a historic neoclassical former bank headquarters on Shanghai’s Bund, renowned as one of the most iconic colonial-era structures in the city.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HSBC Building canonical | 2 |
| HSBC Building on the Bund | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1910598 — 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: HSBC Building Context triple: [The Bund, hasLandmarkBuilding, HSBC Building]
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A.
HSBC Tower
HSBC Tower is a prominent skyscraper in London’s Canary Wharf financial district that serves as one of the global headquarters of HSBC.
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B.
HSBC Main Building, Hong Kong
The HSBC Main Building in Hong Kong is a landmark high-tech skyscraper and former tallest building in the city, renowned for its innovative modular design and open atrium by architect Norman Foster.
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C.
Prudential Tower
Prudential Tower is a prominent skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its observation deck and role as a key feature of the city’s skyline.
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D.
JP Morgan Chase Tower London
JP Morgan Chase Tower London is a prominent office skyscraper in Canary Wharf that serves as a major London base for the global financial services firm JPMorgan Chase.
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E.
Exchange Tower
Exchange Tower is a prominent office skyscraper in Toronto’s financial district that serves as the headquarters of the Toronto Stock Exchange.
- 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: HSBC Building Target entity description: The HSBC Building is a historic neoclassical former bank headquarters on Shanghai’s Bund, renowned as one of the most iconic colonial-era structures in the city.
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A.
HSBC Tower
HSBC Tower is a prominent skyscraper in London’s Canary Wharf financial district that serves as one of the global headquarters of HSBC.
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B.
HSBC Main Building, Hong Kong
The HSBC Main Building in Hong Kong is a landmark high-tech skyscraper and former tallest building in the city, renowned for its innovative modular design and open atrium by architect Norman Foster.
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C.
Prudential Tower
Prudential Tower is a prominent skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its observation deck and role as a key feature of the city’s skyline.
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D.
JP Morgan Chase Tower London
JP Morgan Chase Tower London is a prominent office skyscraper in Canary Wharf that serves as a major London base for the global financial services firm JPMorgan Chase.
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E.
Exchange Tower
Exchange Tower is a prominent office skyscraper in Toronto’s financial district that serves as the headquarters of the Toronto Stock Exchange.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
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former bank headquarters ⓘ historic building ⓘ landmark ⓘ neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Neoclassical ⓘ |
| city | Shanghai ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| era | colonial era in Shanghai ⓘ |
| formerFunction | bank headquarters ⓘ |
| formerOccupant |
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
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surface form:
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
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| hasCulturalValue |
architectural heritage of Shanghai
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historical symbol of international finance in Shanghai ⓘ |
| heritage | colonial-era architecture ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
China
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Huangpu District ⓘ Shanghai ⓘ The Bund ⓘ |
| notableFor |
grand neoclassical façade
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iconic presence on the Shanghai Bund ⓘ symbol of foreign banking presence in old Shanghai ⓘ |
| partOf | historic waterfront district of the Bund ⓘ |
| significance |
important element of the Bund skyline
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one of the most iconic colonial-era structures in Shanghai ⓘ |
| street | The Bund ⓘ |
| use | commercial building ⓘ |
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: HSBC Building Description of subject: The HSBC Building is a historic neoclassical former bank headquarters on Shanghai’s Bund, renowned as one of the most iconic colonial-era structures in the city.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
HSBC Building on the Bund