Bank of Iwate Red Brick Building
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The Bank of Iwate Red Brick Building is a historic Western-style brick bank building in Morioka, Japan, noted for its Meiji-era architecture and status as a local cultural landmark.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bank of Iwate Red Brick Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4302779 — 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 Iwate Red Brick Building Context triple: [Morioka, hasLandmark, Bank of Iwate Red Brick Building]
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A.
Bank of Japan Head Office Building
The Bank of Japan Head Office Building is the central headquarters of Japan’s central bank, known for its historic Western-style architecture in Tokyo’s financial district.
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B.
Takasaki City Hall
Takasaki City Hall is the main municipal government building and administrative center serving the city of Takasaki in Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
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C.
Izumo City Hall
Izumo City Hall is the main administrative building and local government headquarters serving the city of Izumo in Shimane Prefecture, Japan.
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D.
Hadano City Hall
Hadano City Hall is the main municipal government building and administrative center serving the city of Hadano in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
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E.
Nagoya City Hall
Nagoya City Hall is the central municipal government building and administrative headquarters of the city of Nagoya, Japan.
- 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 Iwate Red Brick Building Target entity description: The Bank of Iwate Red Brick Building is a historic Western-style brick bank building in Morioka, Japan, noted for its Meiji-era architecture and status as a local cultural landmark.
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A.
Bank of Japan Head Office Building
The Bank of Japan Head Office Building is the central headquarters of Japan’s central bank, known for its historic Western-style architecture in Tokyo’s financial district.
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B.
Takasaki City Hall
Takasaki City Hall is the main municipal government building and administrative center serving the city of Takasaki in Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
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C.
Izumo City Hall
Izumo City Hall is the main administrative building and local government headquarters serving the city of Izumo in Shimane Prefecture, Japan.
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D.
Hadano City Hall
Hadano City Hall is the main municipal government building and administrative center serving the city of Hadano in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
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E.
Nagoya City Hall
Nagoya City Hall is the central municipal government building and administrative headquarters of the city of Nagoya, Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural property
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former bank building ⓘ historic building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Meiji-era architecture
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Western-style architecture ⓘ |
| category |
buildings and structures in Iwate Prefecture
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tourist attractions in Iwate Prefecture ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| era | Meiji period ⓘ |
| hasColor | red ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
museum
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tourist attraction ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
local cultural landmark
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tangible cultural property of Morioka ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Iwate Prefecture
NERFINISHED
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Morioka NERFINISHED ⓘ Tohoku region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| material | brick ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Bank of Iwate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| operator | Bank of Iwate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significance |
example of early modern bank architecture in Japan
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symbol of modernization in Morioka ⓘ |
| usedFor | banking ⓘ |
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 Iwate Red Brick Building Description of subject: The Bank of Iwate Red Brick Building is a historic Western-style brick bank building in Morioka, Japan, noted for its Meiji-era architecture and status as a local cultural landmark.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Morioka