Chinese Sunken Garden
E401087
The Chinese Sunken Garden, now known as the Japanese Tea Garden in San Antonio, is a historic landscaped park built in a former limestone quarry featuring ponds, stone bridges, and lush plantings.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chinese Sunken Garden canonical | 2 |
| Chinese Tea Gardens | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3941507 — 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: Chinese Sunken Garden Context triple: [Japanese Tea Garden (San Antonio), formerName, Chinese Sunken Garden]
-
A.
Chinese Scholar’s Garden
The Chinese Scholar’s Garden is a traditional-style Chinese garden in New York City, designed as a contemplative landscape with classical pavilions, rockeries, and water features inspired by Ming Dynasty scholar gardens.
-
B.
Lan Su Chinese Garden
Lan Su Chinese Garden is a classical Suzhou-style Chinese garden in Portland, Oregon, featuring traditional architecture, plants, and cultural exhibits.
-
C.
Humble Administrator's Garden
Humble Administrator's Garden is one of China's most famous classical gardens, renowned for its elegant Ming dynasty design of ponds, pavilions, and landscaped scenery in Suzhou.
-
D.
Lingering Garden
Lingering Garden is a renowned classical Chinese garden in Suzhou, celebrated for its exquisite traditional architecture, intricate rockeries, and harmonious landscape design.
-
E.
Qiuxiapu Garden
Qiuxiapu Garden is a historic classical Chinese garden in Shanghai known for its traditional landscaping, pavilions, and tranquil water features.
- 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: Chinese Sunken Garden Target entity description: The Chinese Sunken Garden, now known as the Japanese Tea Garden in San Antonio, is a historic landscaped park built in a former limestone quarry featuring ponds, stone bridges, and lush plantings.
-
A.
Chinese Scholar’s Garden
The Chinese Scholar’s Garden is a traditional-style Chinese garden in New York City, designed as a contemplative landscape with classical pavilions, rockeries, and water features inspired by Ming Dynasty scholar gardens.
-
B.
Lan Su Chinese Garden
Lan Su Chinese Garden is a classical Suzhou-style Chinese garden in Portland, Oregon, featuring traditional architecture, plants, and cultural exhibits.
-
C.
Humble Administrator's Garden
Humble Administrator's Garden is one of China's most famous classical gardens, renowned for its elegant Ming dynasty design of ponds, pavilions, and landscaped scenery in Suzhou.
-
D.
Lingering Garden
Lingering Garden is a renowned classical Chinese garden in Suzhou, celebrated for its exquisite traditional architecture, intricate rockeries, and harmonious landscape design.
-
E.
Qiuxiapu Garden
Qiuxiapu Garden is a historic classical Chinese garden in Shanghai known for its traditional landscaping, pavilions, and tranquil water features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic garden
ⓘ
landscape architecture site ⓘ public park ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| builtOn | former limestone quarry ⓘ |
| category |
Gardens in Texas
ⓘ
Parks in San Antonio, Texas ⓘ Tourist attractions in San Antonio, Texas ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerlyKnownAs | Chinese Sunken Garden ⓘ |
| formerNameOf |
Japanese Tea Garden (San Antonio)
ⓘ
linked to:
Japanese Tea Garden
|
| hasFeature |
Chinese-style garden elements
ⓘ
Japanese-style garden elements ⓘ arched stone bridge ⓘ bamboo plantings ⓘ floral displays ⓘ island in pond ⓘ koi ponds ⓘ lily ponds ⓘ lush plantings ⓘ ornamental plants ⓘ quarry cliffs ⓘ rock walls ⓘ shade trees ⓘ stone balustrades ⓘ stone bridges ⓘ stone pagoda-like structures ⓘ stone steps ⓘ tea pavilion ⓘ terraced landscaping ⓘ viewing platforms ⓘ walkways ⓘ waterfalls ⓘ winding paths ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | historic site ⓘ |
| hasView |
ponds and waterfalls
ⓘ
quarry walls ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bexar County, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Bexar County
Brackenridge Park ⓘ San Antonio River basin ⓘ
linked to:
San Antonio River
San Antonio, Texas ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
City of San Antonio
ⓘ
linked to:
San Antonio, Texas
|
| originalUseOfSite | limestone quarry ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
City of San Antonio
ⓘ
linked to:
San Antonio, Texas
|
| partOf |
Brackenridge Park system
ⓘ
linked to:
Brackenridge Park
|
| significance |
example of reuse of industrial quarry as public garden
ⓘ
local landmark ⓘ popular tourist destination in San Antonio ⓘ |
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: Chinese Sunken Garden Description of subject: The Chinese Sunken Garden, now known as the Japanese Tea Garden in San Antonio, is a historic landscaped park built in a former limestone quarry featuring ponds, stone bridges, and lush plantings.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Japanese Tea Garden
linked to: Chinese Sunken Garden
subject linked to:
Japanese Tea Garden
subject linked to:
Chinese Sunken Garden