Cardboard Cathedral
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Cardboard Cathedral is an innovative temporary Anglican cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, designed by architect Shigeru Ban using cardboard tubes and other lightweight materials after the 2011 earthquake.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cardboard Cathedral canonical | 3 |
| Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10705847 — 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: Cardboard Cathedral Context triple: [Shigeru Ban, notableWork, Cardboard Cathedral]
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A.
Church of Spiritual Technology
The Church of Spiritual Technology is a Scientology-affiliated organization that controls and preserves the religion’s copyrights, trademarks, and archival materials.
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B.
Burning Man Project
Burning Man Project is the nonprofit organization that oversees and stewards the annual Burning Man event and its broader global arts and community initiatives.
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C.
Church of the Papal Mainframe
The Church of the Papal Mainframe is a powerful future religious-military organization in the Doctor Who universe that combines faith with advanced technology and security operations.
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D.
Pylons Project
Pylons Project is an open-source organization that develops and maintains Python web frameworks and related tools, including the Pyramid framework.
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E.
Goat Church
Goat Church is a prominent historic Catholic church in Sopron, Hungary, known for its Gothic architecture and richly decorated interior.
- 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: Cardboard Cathedral Target entity description: Cardboard Cathedral is an innovative temporary Anglican cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, designed by architect Shigeru Ban using cardboard tubes and other lightweight materials after the 2011 earthquake.
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A.
Church of Spiritual Technology
The Church of Spiritual Technology is a Scientology-affiliated organization that controls and preserves the religion’s copyrights, trademarks, and archival materials.
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B.
Burning Man Project
Burning Man Project is the nonprofit organization that oversees and stewards the annual Burning Man event and its broader global arts and community initiatives.
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C.
Church of the Papal Mainframe
The Church of the Papal Mainframe is a powerful future religious-military organization in the Doctor Who universe that combines faith with advanced technology and security operations.
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D.
Pylons Project
Pylons Project is an open-source organization that develops and maintains Python web frameworks and related tools, including the Pyramid framework.
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E.
Goat Church
Goat Church is a prominent historic Catholic church in Sopron, Hungary, known for its Gothic architecture and richly decorated interior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican cathedral
ⓘ
church building ⓘ temporary building ⓘ |
| address | 234 Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Transitional Anglican Cathedral
ⓘ
Transitional Cathedral ⓘ |
| architect | Shigeru Ban ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
contemporary architecture
ⓘ
disaster relief architecture ⓘ |
| awarded |
2014 Canterbury Architecture Award (Interior Architecture)
ⓘ
2014 Canterbury Architecture Award (Public Architecture) ⓘ
linked to:
New Zealand Institute of Architects awards
|
| builtFollowing | 2011 Christchurch earthquake ⓘ |
| city |
Christchurch
ⓘ
linked to:
Christchurch, New Zealand
|
| client | Anglican Diocese of Christchurch ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 2012 ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| denomination | Anglican ⓘ |
| designedBy | Shigeru Ban ⓘ |
| designedFor | earthquake resilience ⓘ |
| diocese | Anglican Diocese of Christchurch ⓘ |
| function | cathedral church of the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch (temporary) ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
A-frame structure
ⓘ
stained-glass window with image of original ChristChurch Cathedral rose window ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.cardboardcathedral.org.nz/ ⓘ |
| height | 21 m ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | non-heritage temporary structure ⓘ |
| inception | 2013 ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia ⓘ |
| latitude | -43.533 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Christchurch
ⓘ
linked to:
Christchurch, New Zealand
Christchurch Central City ⓘ
linked to:
Christchurch central business district
|
| locatedOn | Latimer Square ⓘ |
| longitude | 172.642 ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
cardboard tubes
ⓘ
polycarbonate ⓘ shipping containers ⓘ steel ⓘ timber ⓘ |
| opened | 2013-08-06 ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Anglican Diocese of Christchurch ⓘ |
| purpose | temporary replacement for ChristChurch Cathedral ⓘ |
| region | Canterbury Region ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity | 700 ⓘ |
| structuralSystem | cardboard tube frames with timber and steel reinforcement ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| usedFor |
community events
ⓘ
concerts ⓘ worship services ⓘ |
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: Cardboard Cathedral Description of subject: Cardboard Cathedral is an innovative temporary Anglican cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, designed by architect Shigeru Ban using cardboard tubes and other lightweight materials after the 2011 earthquake.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cardboard Cathedral