Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Building
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The Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Building is a historic neoclassical landmark on Shanghai’s Bund, originally built in the 1920s as the headquarters of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HSBC Building, Shanghai | 1 |
| Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Building canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9022120 — 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: Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Building Context triple: [Wàitān, containsLandmarkBuilding, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Building]
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A.
Bank of China Tower Pudong
Bank of China Tower Pudong is a prominent modern skyscraper in Shanghai’s Pudong district, recognized as part of the city’s iconic financial skyline.
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B.
Shanghai Centre
Shanghai Centre is a prominent mixed-use skyscraper complex in central Shanghai, known for its offices, luxury apartments, retail spaces, and the Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
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C.
Oriental Pearl Tower
The Oriental Pearl Tower is a distinctive futuristic TV tower and popular tourist attraction in Shanghai, known for its multiple spheres and panoramic city views.
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D.
Shanghai International Finance Centre
Shanghai International Finance Centre is a major skyscraper complex and financial hub located in Shanghai’s Lujiazui district, known for its prominent office, retail, and commercial spaces.
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E.
Jin Mao Tower
Jin Mao Tower is a landmark supertall skyscraper in Shanghai, China, known for its distinctive tiered pagoda-inspired design and prominent role in the city’s Pudong skyline.
- 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: Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Building Target entity description: The Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Building is a historic neoclassical landmark on Shanghai’s Bund, originally built in the 1920s as the headquarters of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
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A.
Bank of China Tower Pudong
Bank of China Tower Pudong is a prominent modern skyscraper in Shanghai’s Pudong district, recognized as part of the city’s iconic financial skyline.
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B.
Shanghai Centre
Shanghai Centre is a prominent mixed-use skyscraper complex in central Shanghai, known for its offices, luxury apartments, retail spaces, and the Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
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C.
Oriental Pearl Tower
The Oriental Pearl Tower is a distinctive futuristic TV tower and popular tourist attraction in Shanghai, known for its multiple spheres and panoramic city views.
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D.
Shanghai International Finance Centre
Shanghai International Finance Centre is a major skyscraper complex and financial hub located in Shanghai’s Lujiazui district, known for its prominent office, retail, and commercial spaces.
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E.
Jin Mao Tower
Jin Mao Tower is a landmark supertall skyscraper in Shanghai, China, known for its distinctive tiered pagoda-inspired design and prominent role in the city’s Pudong skyline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bank headquarters
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building ⓘ landmark ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| city | Shanghai ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1920s ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1920s ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| currentFunction | offices of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank ⓘ |
| district | Huangpu District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerOccupant | Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUse |
commercial
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financial services ⓘ office space ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic landmark ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
China
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Huangpu District NERFINISHED ⓘ Shanghai ⓘ The Bund NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | China Standard Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Huangpu River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Zhongshan Road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
historic banking hall
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neoclassical façade ⓘ role in Shanghai’s financial history ⓘ |
| occupant | Shanghai Pudong Development Bank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalFunction | headquarters of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation ⓘ |
| partOf | Bund waterfront skyline ⓘ |
| region |
eastern China
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surface form:
East China
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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: Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Building Description of subject: The Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Building is a historic neoclassical landmark on Shanghai’s Bund, originally built in the 1920s as the headquarters of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Zhongshan Road (Shanghai)
this entity surface form:
HSBC Building, Shanghai