Beijing National Aquatics Center
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The Beijing National Aquatics Center, nicknamed the "Water Cube," is an iconic bubble-walled swimming and diving complex in Beijing renowned for its innovative architecture and role in major international aquatic competitions.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Beijing National Aquatics Center canonical | 17 |
| Water Cube | 5 |
| National Aquatics Center | 2 |
| National Aquatics Center (Water Cube / Ice Cube) | 2 |
| National Aquatics Center (Ice Cube) | 1 |
| National Aquatics Center (Water Cube) | 1 |
| 国家游泳中心 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T685776 — 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: Beijing National Aquatics Center Context triple: [2008 Summer Olympics, mainAquaticsVenue, Beijing National Aquatics Center]
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Beijing National Stadium
Beijing National Stadium, also known as the "Bird's Nest," is a landmark sports arena in Beijing famous for hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics and major international events.
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Shanghai Stadium
Shanghai Stadium is a large multi-purpose sports arena in Shanghai, China, best known for hosting major football matches, athletics events, and concerts.
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C.
Olympic Stadium
Olympic Stadium is Helsinki’s main sports arena and a historic venue best known for hosting the 1952 Summer Olympics and major athletic and cultural events in Finland.
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D.
Olympic Stadium
Olympic Stadium is a large multi-purpose sports and events venue in Montreal, Quebec, best known as the main site of the 1976 Summer Olympics and for its distinctive inclined tower.
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E.
London Aquatics Centre
The London Aquatics Centre is a landmark swimming and diving venue in London, designed by architect Zaha Hadid and now serving as a public aquatic sports facility.
- 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: Beijing National Aquatics Center Target entity description: The Beijing National Aquatics Center, nicknamed the "Water Cube," is an iconic bubble-walled swimming and diving complex in Beijing renowned for its innovative architecture and role in major international aquatic competitions.
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A.
Beijing National Stadium
Beijing National Stadium, also known as the "Bird's Nest," is a landmark sports arena in Beijing famous for hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics and major international events.
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B.
Shanghai Stadium
Shanghai Stadium is a large multi-purpose sports arena in Shanghai, China, best known for hosting major football matches, athletics events, and concerts.
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C.
Olympic Stadium
Olympic Stadium is Helsinki’s main sports arena and a historic venue best known for hosting the 1952 Summer Olympics and major athletic and cultural events in Finland.
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D.
Olympic Stadium
Olympic Stadium is a large multi-purpose sports and events venue in Montreal, Quebec, best known as the main site of the 1976 Summer Olympics and for its distinctive inclined tower.
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E.
London Aquatics Centre
The London Aquatics Centre is a landmark swimming and diving venue in London, designed by architect Zaha Hadid and now serving as a public aquatic sports facility.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic venue
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aquatics center ⓘ indoor arena ⓘ landmark ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| architect |
China Construction Design International
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China State Construction Engineering Corporation ⓘ PTW Architects ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
British high-tech architecture
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surface form:
High-tech architecture
Modern architecture ⓘ |
| builtForEvent | 2008 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| completionDate | January 2008 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | December 2003 ⓘ |
| contains |
Olympic-size swimming pool
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diving pool ⓘ ice sports facilities ⓘ indoor water park ⓘ training pools ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 39.991 latitude, 116.390 longitude ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| floorArea | approximately 80,000 square metres ⓘ |
| hasFacade | bubble-like ETFE cladding ⓘ |
| height | approximately 30 metres ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | major landmark of the 2008 Beijing Olympics ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
2010 FINA Swimming World Cup (Beijing leg)
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various FINA Diving World Series events ⓘ |
| inception | 2003 ⓘ |
| lightingFeature | LED illumination for night-time color effects ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Beijing ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Chaoyang District ⓘ |
| locatedInComplex | Olympic Green ⓘ |
| mainUse |
diving competitions
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swimming competitions ⓘ synchronized swimming competitions ⓘ water polo competitions ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Beijing National Aquatics Center
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
国家游泳中心
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| nativeNameLanguage | zh ⓘ |
| nearby |
Beijing National Stadium
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Olympic Green Tennis Center ⓘ |
| nickname |
Beijing National Aquatics Center
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Water Cube
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| OlympicEventHosted |
diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics ⓘ synchronized swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics ⓘ water polo preliminaries at the 2008 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| openingDate | 28 January 2008 ⓘ |
| owner | Beijing State-owned Assets Management Co., Ltd. ⓘ |
| ParalympicEventHosted | swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics ⓘ |
| projectDesigner |
China State Construction Engineering Corporation
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surface form:
CSCEC International Design
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| renovation |
converted to multi-purpose venue with water park after 2008 Olympics
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partly converted to curling venue for 2022 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| roofShape | flat roof ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity |
17000 during 2008 Olympics
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approximately 6000 in legacy mode ⓘ |
| structuralEngineer |
Ove Arup & Partners
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surface form:
Arup
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| sustainabilityFeature |
ETFE cladding improves thermal insulation
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rainwater collection and reuse system ⓘ |
| usesMaterial |
ETFE
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concrete ⓘ steel ⓘ |
| WinterOlympicEventHosted |
2022 Winter Olympics
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surface form:
curling at the 2022 Winter Olympics
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| WinterParalympicEventHosted | wheelchair curling at the 2022 Winter Paralympics ⓘ |
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: Beijing National Aquatics Center Description of subject: The Beijing National Aquatics Center, nicknamed the "Water Cube," is an iconic bubble-walled swimming and diving complex in Beijing renowned for its innovative architecture and role in major international aquatic competitions.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Water Cube
Beijing National Aquatics Center
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nickname
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Beijing National Aquatics Center
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Water Cube
Beijing National Aquatics Center
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nativeName
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Beijing National Aquatics Center
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
国家游泳中心
this entity surface form:
Water Cube
this entity surface form:
National Aquatics Center (Water Cube / Ice Cube)
this entity surface form:
National Aquatics Center (Ice Cube)
this entity surface form:
National Aquatics Center (Water Cube / Ice Cube)
this entity surface form:
Water Cube
this entity surface form:
Water Cube
subject surface form:
Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics
this entity surface form:
National Aquatics Center
this entity surface form:
National Aquatics Center
this entity surface form:
National Aquatics Center (Water Cube)