Blyth Memorial Arena
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Blyth Memorial Arena was the primary ice hockey and figure skating venue built in Squaw Valley, California, for the 1960 Winter Olympics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Blyth Memorial Arena canonical | 2 |
| A. C. Blyth Arena | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T774293 — 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: Blyth Memorial Arena Context triple: [1960 Winter Olympics, stadium, Blyth Memorial Arena]
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A.
Thompson–Boling Arena
Thompson–Boling Arena is a large multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue located on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville.
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B.
Bright-Landry Hockey Center
Bright-Landry Hockey Center is an ice hockey arena at Harvard University that serves as the home venue for the Harvard Crimson men's and women's ice hockey teams.
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C.
Matthew Knight Arena
Matthew Knight Arena is a modern indoor sports and entertainment venue in Eugene, Oregon, serving as the home court for the University of Oregon Ducks basketball teams.
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D.
Tate Rink
Tate Rink is an ice hockey arena at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, serving as the home venue for Army's men's and women's hockey teams.
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E.
Uline Arena
Uline Arena is a historic indoor venue in Washington, D.C., best known for hosting early professional basketball games and notable cultural events, including The Beatles’ first U.S. concert.
- 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: Blyth Memorial Arena Target entity description: Blyth Memorial Arena was the primary ice hockey and figure skating venue built in Squaw Valley, California, for the 1960 Winter Olympics.
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A.
Thompson–Boling Arena
Thompson–Boling Arena is a large multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue located on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville.
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B.
Bright-Landry Hockey Center
Bright-Landry Hockey Center is an ice hockey arena at Harvard University that serves as the home venue for the Harvard Crimson men's and women's ice hockey teams.
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C.
Matthew Knight Arena
Matthew Knight Arena is a modern indoor sports and entertainment venue in Eugene, Oregon, serving as the home court for the University of Oregon Ducks basketball teams.
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D.
Tate Rink
Tate Rink is an ice hockey arena at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, serving as the home venue for Army's men's and women's hockey teams.
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E.
Uline Arena
Uline Arena is a historic indoor venue in Washington, D.C., best known for hosting early professional basketball games and notable cultural events, including The Beatles’ first U.S. concert.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic venue
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figure skating venue ⓘ ice hockey venue ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| architecturalFeature | open-air design with temporary enclosing walls ⓘ |
| capacity | approximately 8500 spectators ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| demolished | 1983 ⓘ |
| demolishedAfter | roof collapse ⓘ |
| event | 1960 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
1960 Winter Olympics closing ceremony
ⓘ
linked to:
1960 Winter Olympics
1960 Winter Olympics opening ceremony ⓘ
linked to:
1960 Winter Olympics
figure skating competitions at the 1960 Winter Olympics ⓘ ice hockey tournament at the 1960 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| locatedInMountainRange | Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| location |
Squaw Valley, California
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linked to:
Olympic Valley
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| namedAfter | Alexander Cochrane Blyth ⓘ |
| openedFor | 1960 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| partOf |
Squaw Valley Olympic complex
ⓘ
linked to:
Squaw Valley
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| primaryVenueFor |
figure skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics
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linked to:
1960 Winter Olympics
ice hockey at the 1960 Winter Olympics ⓘ
linked to:
Olympic men's ice hockey tournament
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| region |
Placer County, California
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linked to:
Placer County
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| replacedBy | parking lot at Squaw Valley ⓘ |
| roofCollapsed | 1983 ⓘ |
| status | no longer extant ⓘ |
| surface | ice rink ⓘ |
| usedFor |
closing ceremony
ⓘ
figure skating ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ opening ceremony ⓘ |
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: Blyth Memorial Arena Description of subject: Blyth Memorial Arena was the primary ice hockey and figure skating venue built in Squaw Valley, California, for the 1960 Winter Olympics.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Blyth Memorial Arena