Famen Temple
E191605
Famen Temple is an ancient and historically significant Buddhist temple in China, renowned for housing relics believed to be finger bones of the Buddha.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Famen Temple canonical | 13 |
| Famen Temple Cultural Scenic Area | 1 |
| Famen Temple Museum | 1 |
| Famen Temple complex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1695701 — 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: Famen Temple Context triple: [Shaanxi Province, hasFamousSite, Famen Temple]
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A.
Sojiwan temple
Sojiwan Temple is a 9th-century Buddhist temple near Prambanan in Central Java, Indonesia, notable for its reliefs and association with the Medang (Mataram) Kingdom.
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B.
Temple of Amada
The Temple of Amada is an ancient Egyptian temple in Nubia, renowned as one of the region’s oldest surviving temples and noted for its finely preserved reliefs and inscriptions.
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C.
Temple of Taffa
The Temple of Taffa is an ancient Egyptian temple from Nubia that was relocated and preserved as part of UNESCO’s international effort to save monuments threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
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D.
Susa Shrine
Susa Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Japan dedicated to the storm god Susanoo, revered as one of the country’s ancient and significant religious sites.
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E.
Sambisari temple
Sambisari Temple is a 9th-century Hindu Shiva temple buried for centuries under volcanic ash near Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and later excavated and restored as an important archaeological site of the Medang Kingdom.
- 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: Famen Temple Target entity description: Famen Temple is an ancient and historically significant Buddhist temple in China, renowned for housing relics believed to be finger bones of the Buddha.
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A.
Sojiwan temple
Sojiwan Temple is a 9th-century Buddhist temple near Prambanan in Central Java, Indonesia, notable for its reliefs and association with the Medang (Mataram) Kingdom.
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B.
Temple of Amada
The Temple of Amada is an ancient Egyptian temple in Nubia, renowned as one of the region’s oldest surviving temples and noted for its finely preserved reliefs and inscriptions.
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C.
Temple of Taffa
The Temple of Taffa is an ancient Egyptian temple from Nubia that was relocated and preserved as part of UNESCO’s international effort to save monuments threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
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D.
Susa Shrine
Susa Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Japan dedicated to the storm god Susanoo, revered as one of the country’s ancient and significant religious sites.
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E.
Sambisari temple
Sambisari Temple is a 9th-century Hindu Shiva temple buried for centuries under volcanic ash near Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and later excavated and restored as an important archaeological site of the Medang Kingdom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist temple
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religious site ⓘ |
| administrativeDivision | Fufeng County, Baoji, Shaanxi, China ⓘ |
| affiliation | Chinese Buddhism ⓘ |
| architectureStyle | traditional Chinese Buddhist architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty |
Ming dynasty
ⓘ
Northern Zhou dynasty ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Zhou
Qing dynasty ⓘ Tang dynasty ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
important center for the worship of Buddha relics
ⓘ
important site in Chinese Buddhist history ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Shakyamuni Buddha ⓘ |
| discoveredFeature | large cache of Tang dynasty relics ⓘ |
| excavationOccurredInCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| foundedInPeriod |
Eastern Han dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Han dynasty
|
| hasEvent |
Buddhist ceremonies
ⓘ
pilgrimage activities ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Buddhist museum
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large plaza ⓘ monastic complex ⓘ pagoda ⓘ underground crypt ⓘ |
| hasMuseum |
Famen Temple Museum
ⓘ
linked to:
Famen Temple
|
| hasNameInChinese | 法门寺 ⓘ |
| hasRelic |
finger bone relic of the Buddha
ⓘ
sarira ⓘ |
| hasStructure | Famen Temple Pagoda ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | major historical and cultural site protected at the national level in China ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Buddhist relics
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housing relics believed to be finger bones of the Buddha ⓘ important pilgrimage site ⓘ underground palace ⓘ |
| linkedTo | spread of Buddhism in China ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Baoji
ⓘ
Fufeng County ⓘ Guanzhong region ⓘ Shaanxi Province ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | Gate of Dharma Temple ⓘ |
| nearCity | Xi'an ⓘ |
| pilgrimageImportance | one of the important Buddha relic sites in China ⓘ |
| reconstructedInCentury |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| region | northwest China ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| tourismType |
cultural tourism destination
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religious tourism destination ⓘ |
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: Famen Temple Description of subject: Famen Temple is an ancient and historically significant Buddhist temple in China, renowned for housing relics believed to be finger bones of the Buddha.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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