Laie Hawaii Temple
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The Laie Hawaii Temple is a prominent Latter-day Saint temple on Oʻahu’s North Shore, known for its striking white architecture, lush grounds, and historical significance as the first LDS temple built outside the continental United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Laie Hawaii Temple canonical | 3 |
| Hawaii Temple | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2601629 — 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: Laie Hawaii Temple Context triple: [Polynesian Cultural Center, near, Laie Hawaii Temple]
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A.
Provo Utah Temple
The Provo Utah Temple is a Latter-day Saint temple located in Provo, Utah, known for serving the large local LDS community and nearby Brigham Young University.
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B.
Kirtland Temple
Kirtland Temple is a historic Latter Day Saint temple in Kirtland, Ohio, revered as a sacred site by the Community of Christ and known as the first temple built in the movement.
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C.
Provo City Center Temple
The Provo City Center Temple is a Latter-day Saint temple in downtown Provo, Utah, notable for being reconstructed from the historic Provo Tabernacle after a devastating fire.
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D.
Cardston Alberta Temple
The Cardston Alberta Temple is a historic Latter-day Saint temple in Cardston, Alberta, notable as one of the earliest temples built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints outside the United States.
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E.
Salt Lake Temple
The Salt Lake Temple is a prominent 19th-century granite temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and an iconic religious and architectural symbol of Salt Lake City.
- 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: Laie Hawaii Temple Target entity description: The Laie Hawaii Temple is a prominent Latter-day Saint temple on Oʻahu’s North Shore, known for its striking white architecture, lush grounds, and historical significance as the first LDS temple built outside the continental United States.
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A.
Provo Utah Temple
The Provo Utah Temple is a Latter-day Saint temple located in Provo, Utah, known for serving the large local LDS community and nearby Brigham Young University.
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B.
Kirtland Temple
Kirtland Temple is a historic Latter Day Saint temple in Kirtland, Ohio, revered as a sacred site by the Community of Christ and known as the first temple built in the movement.
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C.
Provo City Center Temple
The Provo City Center Temple is a Latter-day Saint temple in downtown Provo, Utah, notable for being reconstructed from the historic Provo Tabernacle after a devastating fire.
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D.
Cardston Alberta Temple
The Cardston Alberta Temple is a historic Latter-day Saint temple in Cardston, Alberta, notable as one of the earliest temples built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints outside the United States.
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E.
Salt Lake Temple
The Salt Lake Temple is a prominent 19th-century granite temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and an iconic religious and architectural symbol of Salt Lake City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latter-day Saint temple
ⓘ
religious building ⓘ temple ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Laie Hawaii Temple
ⓘ
surface form:
Hawaii Temple
Laie Temple ⓘ |
| architecturalCharacteristic |
flat-roofed design
ⓘ
low horizontal massing ⓘ striking white exterior ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | modern ⓘ |
| completionYear | 1919 ⓘ |
| constructionStartYear | 1915 ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dedicatedBy | Heber J. Grant ⓘ |
| dedicationDate | 1919-11-27 ⓘ |
| firstTempleIn |
Hawaii
ⓘ
Pacific Islands ⓘ |
| firstTempleOutside | continental United States ⓘ |
| groundsOpenToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
exterior friezes depicting scriptural scenes
ⓘ
lush landscaped grounds ⓘ palm-lined walkways ⓘ reflecting pools ⓘ |
| hasPublicVisitorsCenter | yes ⓘ |
| hasTempleDistrict |
Hawaii
ⓘ
Pacific region ⓘ |
| interiorAccessRestrictedTo | worthy Latter-day Saints with temple recommends ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Laie, Oahu, Hawaii
ⓘ
surface form:
Laie, Hawaii
|
| locatedOn |
North Shore of Oʻahu
ⓘ
surface form:
Oʻahu’s North Shore
|
| locatedOnIsland |
Oahu
ⓘ
surface form:
Oʻahu
|
| nearbyAttraction | Polynesian Cultural Center ⓘ |
| nearbyInstitution | Brigham Young University–Hawaii ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive white architecture and tropical setting
ⓘ
pioneering LDS presence in the Pacific ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ⓘ |
| ordinancesPerformed |
baptisms for the dead
ⓘ
endowment ceremonies ⓘ eternal marriage sealings ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Asia-Pacific
ⓘ
Pacific Rim ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
ⓘ
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ⓘ
surface form:
LDS Church
|
| significance |
first LDS temple built outside the continental United States
ⓘ
historically important to Latter-day Saints in the Pacific ⓘ |
| state | Hawaii ⓘ |
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: Laie Hawaii Temple Description of subject: The Laie Hawaii Temple is a prominent Latter-day Saint temple on Oʻahu’s North Shore, known for its striking white architecture, lush grounds, and historical significance as the first LDS temple built outside the continental United States.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hawaii Temple