Honkan
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Honkan is the main Japanese Gallery building of the Tokyo National Museum, showcasing the history and art of Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Honkan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10056938 — 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: Honkan Context triple: [Tokyo National Museum, hasBuilding, Honkan]
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A.
Azuma House
Azuma House is a minimalist concrete residence in Osaka designed by architect Tadao Ando, renowned for its stark geometry, central open courtyard, and poetic use of light and shadow.
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B.
Kaisa House
Kaisa House is the main library building of the University of Helsinki, known for its modern architecture and role as a central hub for academic study and research.
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C.
Houtu
Houtu is an important earth and fertility deity in Chinese mythology, often revered as a powerful ancestral mother figure associated with the land and its protection.
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D.
Oheka Castle
Oheka Castle is a grand early-20th-century French-style chateau on Long Island, known as one of the largest private residences in the United States and a prominent historic landmark.
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E.
Shuseikan
Shuseikan is a historic industrial complex in Kagoshima, Japan, recognized as one of the earliest centers of modern industrialization in the country and inscribed as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution.
- 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: Honkan Target entity description: Honkan is the main Japanese Gallery building of the Tokyo National Museum, showcasing the history and art of Japan.
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A.
Azuma House
Azuma House is a minimalist concrete residence in Osaka designed by architect Tadao Ando, renowned for its stark geometry, central open courtyard, and poetic use of light and shadow.
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B.
Kaisa House
Kaisa House is the main library building of the University of Helsinki, known for its modern architecture and role as a central hub for academic study and research.
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C.
Houtu
Houtu is an important earth and fertility deity in Chinese mythology, often revered as a powerful ancestral mother figure associated with the land and its protection.
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D.
Oheka Castle
Oheka Castle is a grand early-20th-century French-style chateau on Long Island, known as one of the largest private residences in the United States and a prominent historic landmark.
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E.
Shuseikan
Shuseikan is a historic industrial complex in Kagoshima, Japan, recognized as one of the earliest centers of modern industrialization in the country and inscribed as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art gallery building
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museum building ⓘ |
| architect | Watanabe Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Imperial Crown Style NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
permanent exhibition on the history of Japanese art
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thematic special exhibitions of Japanese art ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Japanese cultural heritage
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history of Japanese art ⓘ |
| exhibitionFocus |
Japanese ceramics
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Japanese lacquerware ⓘ Japanese metalwork ⓘ Japanese painting ⓘ Japanese sculpture ⓘ Japanese swords ⓘ Japanese textiles ⓘ archaeological artifacts from Japan ⓘ ukiyo-e prints ⓘ |
| function |
exhibition of Japanese art
ⓘ
permanent gallery for Japanese art ⓘ |
| galleryLayout | chronological display of Japanese art history ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
museum shop
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rest areas for visitors ⓘ |
| hasBasement | yes ⓘ |
| hasSection |
Jomon to Yayoi period gallery
NERFINISHED
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Kamakura and Muromachi period gallery ⓘ Kofun to Asuka period gallery NERFINISHED ⓘ Modern Japanese art gallery ⓘ Momoyama and Edo period gallery ⓘ Nara and Heian period gallery ⓘ |
| locatedInCity | Taito, Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInPrefecture | Tokyo Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Ueno Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameInEnglish | Japanese Gallery (Honkan) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyBuilding |
Heiseikan
NERFINISHED
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Horyuji Homotsukan NERFINISHED ⓘ Hyokeikan NERFINISHED ⓘ Toyokan (Asian Gallery) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfFloors | 2 ⓘ |
| openedAsGalleryIn | 1938 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Tokyo National Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Tokyo National Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Tokyo National Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfComplex | Tokyo National Museum main campus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorBuildingDestroyedIn | 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reconstructionCompletedIn | 1938 ⓘ |
| yearCompleted | 1938 ⓘ |
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: Honkan Description of subject: Honkan is the main Japanese Gallery building of the Tokyo National Museum, showcasing the history and art of Japan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.