Sam Poo Kong
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Sam Poo Kong is a historic Chinese temple complex in Semarang, Indonesia, revered as a cultural and religious site linked to the legendary admiral Zheng He.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Poo Kong canonical | 3 |
| Sam Po Kong | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T515477 — 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: Sam Poo Kong Context triple: [Semarang, hasLandmark, Sam Poo Kong]
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A.
Wing Lei
Wing Lei is an upscale Chinese fine-dining restaurant at Wynn Las Vegas, renowned for its elegant décor and refined Cantonese cuisine.
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B.
Foo Kok Keong
Foo Kok Keong is a former Malaysian badminton player renowned for his fighting spirit and contributions to Malaysia’s international badminton success in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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C.
Hannibal Chau
Hannibal Chau is a flamboyant black-market dealer in kaiju organs from the film "Pacific Rim," known for his eccentric style and shady charisma.
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D.
Son of Kong
Son of Kong is a 1933 adventure-fantasy film that continues the King Kong story by following a return expedition to Skull Island, where the protagonists encounter Kong’s gentler albino offspring.
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E.
Samil Undong
Samil Undong is the Korean name for the March 1st Movement, a major 1919 nationwide protest against Japanese colonial rule in Korea.
- 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: Sam Poo Kong Target entity description: Sam Poo Kong is a historic Chinese temple complex in Semarang, Indonesia, revered as a cultural and religious site linked to the legendary admiral Zheng He.
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A.
Wing Lei
Wing Lei is an upscale Chinese fine-dining restaurant at Wynn Las Vegas, renowned for its elegant décor and refined Cantonese cuisine.
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B.
Foo Kok Keong
Foo Kok Keong is a former Malaysian badminton player renowned for his fighting spirit and contributions to Malaysia’s international badminton success in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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C.
Hannibal Chau
Hannibal Chau is a flamboyant black-market dealer in kaiju organs from the film "Pacific Rim," known for his eccentric style and shady charisma.
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D.
Son of Kong
Son of Kong is a 1933 adventure-fantasy film that continues the King Kong story by following a return expedition to Skull Island, where the protagonists encounter Kong’s gentler albino offspring.
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E.
Samil Undong
Samil Undong is the Korean name for the March 1st Movement, a major 1919 nationwide protest against Japanese colonial rule in Korea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese temple complex
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cultural heritage site ⓘ historic site ⓘ religious site ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Chinese temple architecture
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Javanese architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Zheng He
ⓘ
surface form:
Admiral Zheng He
Chinese Indonesian culture ⓘ Chinese Muslim community in Semarang ⓘ |
| city | Semarang ⓘ |
| colorScheme |
gold
ⓘ
red ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | symbol of Chinese–Javanese cultural fusion ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Zheng He ⓘ |
| festival |
Cap Go Meh celebrations
ⓘ
Chinese New Year celebrations ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Gedung Batu Temple
ⓘ
Klenteng Sam Poo Kong ⓘ Sam Poo Kong Temple ⓘ
surface form:
Sam Po Kong Temple
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| hasLegend | Zheng He prayed at this site during his voyage ⓘ |
| hasPart |
altars
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cave-like sanctuary ⓘ courtyard ⓘ main temple building ⓘ pavilions ⓘ statue of Zheng He ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | local cultural heritage of Semarang ⓘ |
| linkedToEvent | voyages of Zheng He to Java ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Java
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surface form:
Central Java
Indonesia ⓘ Semarang ⓘ |
| mainDeityOrFigure | Zheng He ⓘ |
| material |
brick
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wood ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sanbao ⓘ |
| periodOfOrigin | early 15th century ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Buddhism
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Chinese folk religion ⓘ Confucianism ⓘ Taoism ⓘ |
| roofType | multi-tiered Chinese roof ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cultural festivals
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pilgrimage ⓘ tourism ⓘ worship ⓘ |
| visitorActivity |
burning incense
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offering prayers ⓘ photography ⓘ |
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: Sam Poo Kong Description of subject: Sam Poo Kong is a historic Chinese temple complex in Semarang, Indonesia, revered as a cultural and religious site linked to the legendary admiral Zheng He.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sam Po Kong