Paper Church in Kobe
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Paper Church in Kobe is a temporary, humanitarian church structure in Kobe, Japan, designed by architect Shigeru Ban using paper tubes as an innovative, low-cost response to the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paper Church in Kobe canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10705849 — 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: Paper Church in Kobe Context triple: [Shigeru Ban, notableWork, Paper Church in Kobe]
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A.
Urakami Cathedral
Urakami Cathedral is a prominent Roman Catholic church in Nagasaki, Japan, historically significant as a center of Japanese Christianity and heavily damaged by the atomic bombing in 1945.
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B.
Kobe City Hall
Kobe City Hall is the main administrative government complex of Kobe, Japan, housing the city’s municipal offices and serving as a central landmark in the Chuo-ku district.
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C.
Gokurakubō (Paradise Hall)
Gokurakubō (Paradise Hall) is a historic Buddhist worship hall within the ancient Gangō-ji temple complex in Nara, Japan.
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D.
Kobe Portopia Hotel
Kobe Portopia Hotel is a large, full-service luxury hotel and conference complex located on Port Island in Kobe, Japan.
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E.
Rikuzentakata
Rikuzentakata is a coastal city in northeastern Japan that was heavily devastated by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and is known for its extensive reconstruction efforts.
- 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: Paper Church in Kobe Target entity description: Paper Church in Kobe is a temporary, humanitarian church structure in Kobe, Japan, designed by architect Shigeru Ban using paper tubes as an innovative, low-cost response to the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake.
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A.
Urakami Cathedral
Urakami Cathedral is a prominent Roman Catholic church in Nagasaki, Japan, historically significant as a center of Japanese Christianity and heavily damaged by the atomic bombing in 1945.
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B.
Kobe City Hall
Kobe City Hall is the main administrative government complex of Kobe, Japan, housing the city’s municipal offices and serving as a central landmark in the Chuo-ku district.
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C.
Gokurakubō (Paradise Hall)
Gokurakubō (Paradise Hall) is a historic Buddhist worship hall within the ancient Gangō-ji temple complex in Nara, Japan.
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D.
Kobe Portopia Hotel
Kobe Portopia Hotel is a large, full-service luxury hotel and conference complex located on Port Island in Kobe, Japan.
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E.
Rikuzentakata
Rikuzentakata is a coastal city in northeastern Japan that was heavily devastated by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and is known for its extensive reconstruction efforts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
disaster relief structure
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humanitarian architecture project ⓘ temporary church building ⓘ |
| architect | Shigeru Ban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | recognition in architectural community for humanitarian design ⓘ |
| constructionCostCharacteristic | low-cost ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| denomination | Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedAs |
easily assembled structure
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easily disassembled structure ⓘ |
| designedFor |
earthquake survivors
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local community of Kobe ⓘ |
| designedWith |
emphasis on recyclability
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emphasis on speed of construction ⓘ |
| floorMaterial | wood ⓘ |
| hasArchitect | Shigeru Ban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle |
emergency architecture
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minimalist architecture ⓘ |
| hasClient | local Catholic parish in Kobe ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | symbol of recovery after Great Hanshin earthquake ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
community support center
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place of worship ⓘ |
| hasMediaType | building ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
innovative use of paper as structural material
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low-cost construction ⓘ rapid assembly ⓘ use of recyclable materials ⓘ |
| inception | 1995 ⓘ |
| influencedBy | humanitarian design principles ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Shigeru Ban paper architecture projects ⓘ |
| isPrototypeFor | later paper tube disaster relief buildings ⓘ |
| isTemporaryStructure | true ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Hyōgo Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Kobe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
cardboard
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fabric membrane ⓘ paper tubes ⓘ wood ⓘ |
| notableFor |
integration of sustainability and disaster relief
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pioneering use of paper tubes in architecture ⓘ |
| purpose |
community gathering place
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disaster relief ⓘ temporary worship space ⓘ |
| reasonForConstruction | response to 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| roofMaterial | fabric membrane ⓘ |
| significantEvent | Great Hanshin earthquake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structuralSystem | paper tube frame ⓘ |
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: Paper Church in Kobe Description of subject: Paper Church in Kobe is a temporary, humanitarian church structure in Kobe, Japan, designed by architect Shigeru Ban using paper tubes as an innovative, low-cost response to the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.