Bank of China Building
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The Bank of China Building is a prominent historic skyscraper on Shanghai’s Bund, known for its blend of Art Deco and traditional Chinese architectural elements.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bank of China Building canonical | 2 |
| Bank of China Building, Shanghai | 1 |
| Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Building | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1910599 — 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: Bank of China Building Context triple: [The Bund, hasLandmarkBuilding, Bank of China Building]
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A.
Shanghai Municipal Government building
The Shanghai Municipal Government building is the main administrative headquarters of Shanghai’s city government, located prominently in the city center.
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B.
Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong
Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong is a landmark skyscraper known for its distinctive angular, prism-like design and status as one of the city’s most recognizable modern architectural icons.
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C.
Sing Chong Building
Sing Chong Building is a historic, pagoda-topped commercial structure in San Francisco’s Chinatown that serves as one of the neighborhood’s most recognizable architectural landmarks.
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D.
Jin Mao Tower
Jin Mao Tower is a landmark supertall skyscraper in Shanghai, China, known for its distinctive tiered pagoda-inspired design and prominent role in the city’s Pudong skyline.
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E.
Oriental Pearl Tower
The Oriental Pearl Tower is a distinctive futuristic TV tower and popular tourist attraction in Shanghai, known for its multiple spheres and 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: Bank of China Building Target entity description: The Bank of China Building is a prominent historic skyscraper on Shanghai’s Bund, known for its blend of Art Deco and traditional Chinese architectural elements.
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A.
Shanghai Municipal Government building
The Shanghai Municipal Government building is the main administrative headquarters of Shanghai’s city government, located prominently in the city center.
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B.
Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong
Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong is a landmark skyscraper known for its distinctive angular, prism-like design and status as one of the city’s most recognizable modern architectural icons.
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C.
Sing Chong Building
Sing Chong Building is a historic, pagoda-topped commercial structure in San Francisco’s Chinatown that serves as one of the neighborhood’s most recognizable architectural landmarks.
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D.
Jin Mao Tower
Jin Mao Tower is a landmark supertall skyscraper in Shanghai, China, known for its distinctive tiered pagoda-inspired design and prominent role in the city’s Pudong skyline.
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E.
Oriental Pearl Tower
The Oriental Pearl Tower is a distinctive futuristic TV tower and popular tourist attraction in Shanghai, known for its multiple spheres and panoramic city views.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic building
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landmark ⓘ office building ⓘ skyscraper ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Art Deco
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Chinese architectural style ⓘ |
| category |
Art Deco architecture in Shanghai
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Buildings and structures on The Bund ⓘ Skyscraper office buildings in Shanghai ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| floorCount | high-rise ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalElement |
setback massing
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stone cladding ⓘ symmetrical façade ⓘ traditional Chinese motifs ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
prominent corner site on the Bund
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views of Huangpu River ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic landmark on the Bund ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
China
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Huangpu District ⓘ Shanghai ⓘ The Bund ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blend of Art Deco and traditional Chinese elements
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role in Shanghai’s financial history ⓘ |
| occupant | Bank of China ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Bank of China ⓘ |
| partOf | Bund waterfront skyline ⓘ |
| significance |
example of fusion of Western and Chinese architectural styles
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symbol of early 20th-century financial district in Shanghai ⓘ |
| use |
bank headquarters
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office space ⓘ |
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: Bank of China Building Description of subject: The Bank of China Building is a prominent historic skyscraper on Shanghai’s Bund, known for its blend of Art Deco and traditional Chinese architectural elements.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Building
subject surface form:
Zhongshan Road (Shanghai)
this entity surface form:
Bank of China Building, Shanghai