The Bund
E38100
The Bund is Shanghai’s historic waterfront promenade along the Huangpu River, famed for its colonial-era architecture and iconic skyline views.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Bund canonical | 20 |
| the Bund | 4 |
| The Bund, Shanghai | 3 |
| Shanghai Bund waterfront area | 1 |
| Shanghai Stock Exchange historical buildings on the Bund | 1 |
| The Bund area | 1 |
| The Bund promenade | 1 |
| The Bund waterfront | 1 |
| The Bund waterfront historic ensemble | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T276308 — 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: The Bund Context triple: [Shanghai, hasPart, The Bund]
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A.
Herald Square
Herald Square is a bustling commercial and transportation hub in Midtown Manhattan, best known for its flagship Macy’s department store and as a focal point of New York City’s retail and holiday festivities.
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B.
Union Square
Union Square is a major commercial and cultural hub in downtown San Francisco, known for its upscale shopping, theaters, hotels, and vibrant urban plaza.
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C.
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial and entertainment hub in Midtown Manhattan, famous for its bright billboards, Broadway theaters, and New Year’s Eve ball drop.
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D.
4 Times Square
4 Times Square is a prominent skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan known for its early adoption of green building technologies and its large illuminated signage in Times Square.
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E.
RCA Building
The RCA Building, now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza or 30 Rock, is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the centerpiece of New York City's Rockefeller Center complex.
- 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: The Bund Target entity description: The Bund is Shanghai’s historic waterfront promenade along the Huangpu River, famed for its colonial-era architecture and iconic skyline views.
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A.
Herald Square
Herald Square is a bustling commercial and transportation hub in Midtown Manhattan, best known for its flagship Macy’s department store and as a focal point of New York City’s retail and holiday festivities.
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B.
Union Square
Union Square is a major commercial and cultural hub in downtown San Francisco, known for its upscale shopping, theaters, hotels, and vibrant urban plaza.
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C.
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial and entertainment hub in Midtown Manhattan, famous for its bright billboards, Broadway theaters, and New Year’s Eve ball drop.
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D.
4 Times Square
4 Times Square is a prominent skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan known for its early adoption of green building technologies and its large illuminated signage in Times Square.
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E.
RCA Building
The RCA Building, now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza or 30 Rock, is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that serves as the centerpiece of New York City's Rockefeller Center complex.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic district
ⓘ
street ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ waterfront promenade ⓘ |
| ChineseName | 外滩 ⓘ |
| ChinesePinyinName | Wàitān ⓘ |
| city | Shanghai ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| faces | Lujiazui ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle |
Art Deco
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Beaux-Arts ⓘ Gothic Revival architecture ⓘ Neoclassical architecture ⓘ Italian Renaissance Revival ⓘ
surface form:
Renaissance Revival architecture
|
| hasFeature |
historic embankment
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night illumination ⓘ riverside promenade ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Monument to the People's Heroes
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surface form:
Monument to the People’s Heroes
Waibaidu Bridge ⓘ |
| hasLandmarkBuilding |
Bank of China Building
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Customs House ⓘ HSBC Building ⓘ Peace Hotel ⓘ Bank of China Building ⓘ
surface form:
Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Building
|
| hasTransportAccess |
Shanghai Metro Line 10
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Shanghai Metro Line 2 ⓘ |
| heritageSignificance |
icon of Shanghai’s modern identity
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symbol of Shanghai’s colonial history ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| knownFor |
colonial-era architecture
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historic waterfront views ⓘ iconic skyline views ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| length | approximately 1.5 kilometers ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
China
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Huangpu District ⓘ Shanghai ⓘ |
| nearMetroStation | East Nanjing Road Station ⓘ |
| overlooks | Pudong skyline ⓘ |
| popularActivity |
nighttime skyline viewing
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photography ⓘ riverfront walking ⓘ |
| runsAlong | Huangpu River ⓘ |
| streetName | Zhongshan Road ⓘ |
| tourismCategory | top attraction in Shanghai ⓘ |
| wasMajorFinancialCenterFor |
foreign banks
ⓘ
insurance companies ⓘ trading houses ⓘ |
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: The Bund Description of subject: The Bund is Shanghai’s historic waterfront promenade along the Huangpu River, famed for its colonial-era architecture and iconic skyline views.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Bund, Shanghai
this entity surface form:
the Bund
this entity surface form:
the Bund
this entity surface form:
the Bund
this entity surface form:
Shanghai Stock Exchange historical buildings on the Bund
subject surface form:
Customs House (Shanghai)
this entity surface form:
The Bund, Shanghai
subject surface form:
Customs House (Shanghai)
this entity surface form:
The Bund waterfront historic ensemble
subject surface form:
HSBC Building (Shanghai)
subject surface form:
HSBC Building (Shanghai)
subject surface form:
Bank of China Building (Shanghai)
this entity surface form:
the Bund
this entity surface form:
Shanghai Bund waterfront area
subject surface form:
Zhongshan Road (Shanghai)
subject surface form:
Zhongshan Road (Shanghai)
this entity surface form:
The Bund area
subject surface form:
Zhongshan Road (Shanghai)
this entity surface form:
The Bund promenade
this entity surface form:
The Bund waterfront
this entity surface form:
The Bund, Shanghai