Wo Fat Building
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The Wo Fat Building is a historic Chinese-style commercial structure in Honolulu’s Chinatown, long associated with the neighborhood’s cultural and social life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wo Fat Building canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T734907 — 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: Wo Fat Building Context triple: [Chinatown (Honolulu), hasLandmark, Wo Fat Building]
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A.
Sing Chong Building
Sing Chong Building is a historic, pagoda-topped commercial structure in San Francisco’s Chinatown that serves as one of the neighborhood’s most recognizable architectural landmarks.
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B.
Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong
Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong is a landmark skyscraper known for its distinctive angular, prism-like design and status as one of the city’s most recognizable modern architectural icons.
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C.
Tin How Temple
Tin How Temple is a historic Taoist temple in San Francisco’s Chinatown, dedicated to the sea goddess Mazu and known as one of the oldest Chinese temples in the United States.
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D.
Canton Tower
Canton Tower is a landmark supertall observation and telecommunications tower in Guangzhou, China, known for its distinctive twisting design and panoramic city views.
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E.
Sing Fat Building
The Sing Fat Building is a historic, pagoda-style commercial structure in San Francisco’s Chinatown that exemplifies the neighborhood’s iconic Chinese-inspired architecture.
- 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: Wo Fat Building Target entity description: The Wo Fat Building is a historic Chinese-style commercial structure in Honolulu’s Chinatown, long associated with the neighborhood’s cultural and social life.
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A.
Sing Chong Building
Sing Chong Building is a historic, pagoda-topped commercial structure in San Francisco’s Chinatown that serves as one of the neighborhood’s most recognizable architectural landmarks.
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B.
Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong
Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong is a landmark skyscraper known for its distinctive angular, prism-like design and status as one of the city’s most recognizable modern architectural icons.
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C.
Tin How Temple
Tin How Temple is a historic Taoist temple in San Francisco’s Chinatown, dedicated to the sea goddess Mazu and known as one of the oldest Chinese temples in the United States.
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D.
Canton Tower
Canton Tower is a landmark supertall observation and telecommunications tower in Guangzhou, China, known for its distinctive twisting design and panoramic city views.
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E.
Sing Fat Building
The Sing Fat Building is a historic, pagoda-style commercial structure in San Francisco’s Chinatown that exemplifies the neighborhood’s iconic Chinese-inspired architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese-style building
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commercial building ⓘ historic building ⓘ landmark ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Chinatown cultural life
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Chinatown social life ⓘ Chinese American community in Honolulu ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
important site in Chinatown’s history
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symbol of Chinese heritage in Honolulu ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle | Chinese ⓘ |
| hasCity | Honolulu ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
commercial use
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restaurant space ⓘ social gathering place ⓘ |
| hasIsland | Oahu ⓘ |
| hasNeighborhood | Chinatown ⓘ |
| hasState | Hawaii ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic structure ⓘ |
| isInHistoricArea |
Chinatown, Honolulu
ⓘ
surface form:
Honolulu Chinatown
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| locatedIn |
Chinatown, Honolulu
ⓘ
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Honolulu, Hawaii
Oahu ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| namedAfter | Wo Fat Restaurant ⓘ |
| partOf |
Chinatown, Honolulu
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surface form:
Honolulu Chinatown Historic District
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| roleInCommunity |
cultural hub
ⓘ
social hub ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial activities
ⓘ
community events ⓘ dining ⓘ |
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: Wo Fat Building Description of subject: The Wo Fat Building is a historic Chinese-style commercial structure in Honolulu’s Chinatown, long associated with the neighborhood’s cultural and social life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chinatown (Honolulu)