Parliament House, Wellington

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government building heritage building parliament building

Parliament House, Wellington is the main Edwardian neoclassical building of the New Zealand Parliament complex, housing the debating chamber and key parliamentary offices in the capital city.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Parliament House, Wellington canonical	12
New Zealand House of Representatives debating chamber	1
New Zealand Parliament House	1
New Zealand Parliament complex	1
Old wooden Parliament House, Wellington	1
Parliament House	1
Parliament House (New Zealand)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T823117 — 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: Parliament House, Wellington
Context triple: [New Zealand Parliament, meetsIn, Parliament House, Wellington]

A. Government House, Wellington
Government House, Wellington is the official residence of the monarch’s representative, the Governor-General of New Zealand, and a key venue for state and ceremonial events in the country’s capital.
B. Government House, Auckland
Government House, Auckland is the official residence of the monarch’s representative in New Zealand, serving as a key venue for state ceremonies and official functions.
C. Parliament House, Sydney
Parliament House, Sydney is the historic building complex on Macquarie Street that serves as the meeting place and administrative home of the Parliament of New South Wales.
D. Parliament House, Melbourne
Parliament House, Melbourne is a historic 19th-century building that long served as the seat of the Parliament of Victoria and, for a time, housed the federal Parliament of Australia before the capital moved to Canberra.
E. Parliament House, Canberra
Parliament House, Canberra is the principal seat of the Parliament of Australia and a landmark government building located on Capital Hill in the nation’s capital.
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: Parliament House, Wellington
Target entity description: Parliament House, Wellington is the main Edwardian neoclassical building of the New Zealand Parliament complex, housing the debating chamber and key parliamentary offices in the capital city.

A. Government House, Wellington
Government House, Wellington is the official residence of the monarch’s representative, the Governor-General of New Zealand, and a key venue for state and ceremonial events in the country’s capital.
B. Government House, Auckland
Government House, Auckland is the official residence of the monarch’s representative in New Zealand, serving as a key venue for state ceremonies and official functions.
C. Parliament House, Sydney
Parliament House, Sydney is the historic building complex on Macquarie Street that serves as the meeting place and administrative home of the Parliament of New South Wales.
D. Parliament House, Melbourne
Parliament House, Melbourne is a historic 19th-century building that long served as the seat of the Parliament of Victoria and, for a time, housed the federal Parliament of Australia before the capital moved to Canberra.
E. Parliament House, Canberra
Parliament House, Canberra is the principal seat of the Parliament of Australia and a landmark government building located on Capital Hill in the nation’s capital.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	government building ⓘ heritage building ⓘ parliament building ⓘ
adjacentTo	Parliamentary Library, Wellington ⓘ The Beehive (Executive Wing) ⓘ linked to: Beehive (Executive Wing of Parliament)
architect	John Campbell ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Edwardian neoclassical ⓘ neoclassical architecture ⓘ
city	Wellington ⓘ
coArchitect	Claude Paton ⓘ
constructionStartDate	1914 ⓘ
country	New Zealand ⓘ
function	seat of the New Zealand Parliament ⓘ
hasCoordinateLatitude	-41.278 ⓘ
hasCoordinateLongitude	174.777 ⓘ
hasFeature	Corinthian columns ⓘ Speaker’s apartment (historic) ⓘ committee rooms ⓘ grand central portico ⓘ internal courtyard ⓘ main staircase ⓘ marble entrance hall ⓘ symmetrical façade ⓘ
heritageRegister	New Zealand Heritage List ⓘ
heritageStatus	Category I historic place ⓘ
houses	New Zealand House of Representatives debating chamber ⓘ linked to: Parliament House, Wellington Prime Minister’s offices (parliamentary) ⓘ Speaker of the House offices ⓘ government and opposition parliamentary offices ⓘ
inaugurationDate	1922 ⓘ
locatedIn	New Zealand Parliament complex ⓘ linked to: Parliament House, Wellington Parliament Grounds, Wellington ⓘ Wellington ⓘ Wellington Central ⓘ
materialUsed	Oamaru stone cladding ⓘ concrete ⓘ granite base ⓘ
openedForUse	1918 ⓘ
operatedBy	Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives ⓘ
ownedBy	New Zealand Government ⓘ linked to: New Zealand government
partOf	New Zealand Parliament Buildings ⓘ New Zealand Parliament complex ⓘ linked to: New Zealand Parliament Buildings
region	Wellington Region ⓘ
replaced	Old wooden Parliament House, Wellington ⓘ linked to: Parliament House, Wellington
usedBy	New Zealand House of Representatives ⓘ
usedFor	official state events ⓘ parliamentary debates ⓘ select committee meetings ⓘ

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