Kaiyuan Temple
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Kaiyuan Temple is a historic and architecturally significant Buddhist temple in Quanzhou, Fujian, renowned as one of the largest and oldest temples in southeastern China.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kaiyuan Monastery | 1 |
| Kaiyuan Temple canonical | 1 |
| Kaiyuan Temple site | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4283342 — 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: Kaiyuan Temple Context triple: [Quanzhou, hasFamousSite, Kaiyuan Temple]
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A.
White Horse Temple
White Horse Temple is traditionally regarded as the first Buddhist temple in China and an important cradle of Chinese Buddhism, located near Luoyang in Henan Province.
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B.
Tianning Temple
Tianning Temple is a historic and renowned Buddhist temple complex in Changzhou, China, famous for its towering pagoda and significant religious and cultural heritage.
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C.
Guiyuan Temple
Guiyuan Temple is a historic and renowned Buddhist temple in Wuhan, China, known for its rich cultural heritage and significant religious influence.
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D.
Nankunshen Daitian Temple
Nankunshen Daitian Temple is a major and historic Taoist temple complex in Tainan, Taiwan, renowned as one of the most important centers of Wang Ye (royal lord) worship.
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E.
Longshan Temple
Longshan Temple is a historic and richly decorated Buddhist and folk religion temple in Taipei, Taiwan, renowned as one of the city’s most important religious and cultural sites.
- 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: Kaiyuan Temple Target entity description: Kaiyuan Temple is a historic and architecturally significant Buddhist temple in Quanzhou, Fujian, renowned as one of the largest and oldest temples in southeastern China.
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A.
White Horse Temple
White Horse Temple is traditionally regarded as the first Buddhist temple in China and an important cradle of Chinese Buddhism, located near Luoyang in Henan Province.
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B.
Tianning Temple
Tianning Temple is a historic and renowned Buddhist temple complex in Changzhou, China, famous for its towering pagoda and significant religious and cultural heritage.
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C.
Guiyuan Temple
Guiyuan Temple is a historic and renowned Buddhist temple in Wuhan, China, known for its rich cultural heritage and significant religious influence.
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D.
Nankunshen Daitian Temple
Nankunshen Daitian Temple is a major and historic Taoist temple complex in Tainan, Taiwan, renowned as one of the most important centers of Wang Ye (royal lord) worship.
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E.
Longshan Temple
Longshan Temple is a historic and richly decorated Buddhist and folk religion temple in Taipei, Taiwan, renowned as one of the city’s most important religious and cultural sites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist temple
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historic site ⓘ religious building ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Maritime Silk Road
ⓘ
linked to:
Indian Ocean trade network
Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China ⓘ
linked to:
Historic Cities of China
|
| country | China ⓘ |
| denomination | Chan Buddhism ⓘ |
| founded | Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| foundedInCentury | 7th century ⓘ |
| foundedInReign | Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ⓘ |
| function |
monastic complex
ⓘ
place of worship ⓘ tourist destination ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle |
Song dynasty architecture
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Tang dynasty architecture ⓘ
linked to:
Tang dynasty
traditional Chinese architecture ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Heavenly Kings Hall
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Mahavira Hall ⓘ ancient trees ⓘ central axis layout ⓘ inscribed tablets ⓘ main hall ⓘ stone carvings ⓘ stone pagodas ⓘ twin pagodas ⓘ wooden sculptures ⓘ |
| hasNotableStructure |
Bell tower
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Drum tower ⓘ East Pagoda ⓘ Heavenly Kings Hall ⓘ Mahavira Hall ⓘ West Pagoda ⓘ stone pillars with Hindu reliefs ⓘ sutra repository ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level in China ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Fujian Province
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linked to:
Fujian
Quanzhou ⓘ southeastern China ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Hindu-style relief carvings
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architectural value ⓘ blend of Chinese and foreign artistic elements ⓘ historic significance ⓘ stone pagodas ⓘ |
| originalName | Lotus Temple ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
one of the largest temples in Fujian
ⓘ
one of the oldest Buddhist temples in southeastern China ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageContext | part of the serial property "Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China" ⓘ |
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: Kaiyuan Temple Description of subject: Kaiyuan Temple is a historic and architecturally significant Buddhist temple in Quanzhou, Fujian, renowned as one of the largest and oldest temples in southeastern China.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kaiyuan Temple
linked to: Kaiyuan Temple