Garden of Virtue and Harmony
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The Garden of Virtue and Harmony is a historic theater and courtyard complex within Beijing’s Summer Palace, renowned as an imperial venue for traditional Chinese opera and court entertainment.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Garden of Virtue and Harmony canonical | 5 |
| Garden of Nurtured Harmony | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T685710 — 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: Garden of Virtue and Harmony Context triple: [Summer Palace, hasPart, Garden of Virtue and Harmony]
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A.
Imperial Garden
Imperial Garden is the ornate, historically significant royal garden located at the northern end of Beijing’s Forbidden City, featuring classical Chinese landscaping, pavilions, and ancient cypress trees.
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B.
The Gardens
The Gardens was the original name of Maple Leaf Gardens, the historic Toronto arena famed as the longtime home of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs and a major venue for sports and entertainment events.
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C.
Hall of Preserving Harmony
The Hall of Preserving Harmony is one of the principal ceremonial halls in Beijing’s Forbidden City, historically used for imperial banquets, rehearsals, and key state rituals during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
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D.
Yu Garden
Yu Garden is a famous classical Chinese garden in Shanghai renowned for its traditional Ming-era architecture, ponds, rockeries, and pavilions.
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E.
The Garden
The Garden is the famous nickname for Boston Garden, the historic indoor arena in Boston that hosted the NBA’s Celtics, the NHL’s Bruins, and numerous iconic sports and entertainment events.
- 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: Garden of Virtue and Harmony Target entity description: The Garden of Virtue and Harmony is a historic theater and courtyard complex within Beijing’s Summer Palace, renowned as an imperial venue for traditional Chinese opera and court entertainment.
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A.
Imperial Garden
Imperial Garden is the ornate, historically significant royal garden located at the northern end of Beijing’s Forbidden City, featuring classical Chinese landscaping, pavilions, and ancient cypress trees.
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B.
The Gardens
The Gardens was the original name of Maple Leaf Gardens, the historic Toronto arena famed as the longtime home of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs and a major venue for sports and entertainment events.
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C.
Hall of Preserving Harmony
The Hall of Preserving Harmony is one of the principal ceremonial halls in Beijing’s Forbidden City, historically used for imperial banquets, rehearsals, and key state rituals during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
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D.
Yu Garden
Yu Garden is a famous classical Chinese garden in Shanghai renowned for its traditional Ming-era architecture, ponds, rockeries, and pavilions.
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E.
The Garden
The Garden is the famous nickname for Madison Square Garden, the iconic multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City known for major sports, concerts, and entertainment events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
courtyard complex
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historic theater complex ⓘ imperial theater ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Dehe Garden Theater ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | traditional Chinese palace architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| category |
Chinese imperial architecture
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Summer Palace structures ⓘ theatres in Beijing ⓘ |
| city | Beijing ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | important site for Qing dynasty court performances ⓘ |
| designedFor |
Empress Dowager Cixi’s opera performances
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acoustic performance of opera ⓘ |
| function | entertainment for the imperial court ⓘ |
| genreOfPerformances | Chinese opera ⓘ |
| hasAudience | imperial family and court officials ⓘ |
| hasCourtyardType | enclosed courtyard ⓘ |
| hasDecoration |
elaborate painted beams and brackets
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imperial motifs and symbols ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
audience hall
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courtyard ⓘ ornamental architectural decorations ⓘ theater stage ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
imperial viewing hall opposite the stage
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three-story stage building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
UNESCO World Heritage Site component
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surface form:
UNESCO World Heritage component
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| heritageStatus | imperial venue ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformances | Chinese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Beijing
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China ⓘ Haidian District ⓘ
surface form:
Haidian District, Beijing
Summer Palace ⓘ |
| material |
brick
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wood ⓘ |
| near |
Kunming Lake
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Longevity Hill ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Summer Palace
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surface form:
Summer Palace complex
UNESCO World Heritage Site Summer Palace ⓘ |
| period |
Qing dynasty
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surface form:
late Qing dynasty
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| roofType | tiled roof ⓘ |
| significance | represents imperial patronage of Chinese opera ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| use |
court entertainment
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traditional Chinese opera performances ⓘ |
| visitorActivity |
cultural tourism
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sightseeing ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Garden of Virtue and Harmony Description of subject: The Garden of Virtue and Harmony is a historic theater and courtyard complex within Beijing’s Summer Palace, renowned as an imperial venue for traditional Chinese opera and court entertainment.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Summer Palace
subject surface form:
Summer Palace
this entity surface form:
Garden of Nurtured Harmony
subject surface form:
Summer Palace
this entity surface form:
Garden of Nurtured Harmony