Salt Palace
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The Salt Palace was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Salt Lake City, Utah, that hosted professional basketball, concerts, and other major events before its demolition.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salt Palace canonical | 3 |
| Salt Palace (historic pavilion) | 1 |
| Salt Palace Convention Center | 1 |
| original Salt Palace (Salt Lake City) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T919279 — 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: Salt Palace Context triple: [Utah Stars, homeArena, Salt Palace]
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A.
Khwabgah
Khwabgah is a historic residential complex within the Mughal imperial city of Fatehpur Sikri, traditionally regarded as the private sleeping quarters of Emperor Akbar.
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B.
Grand Staircase
The Grand Staircase is an ornate central staircase within the Massachusetts State House, known for its impressive architecture and ceremonial significance.
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C.
Sheen Palace
Sheen Palace was a medieval royal residence on the River Thames in Surrey that served as a favored home of English monarchs, including Edward III, before later being rebuilt as Richmond Palace.
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D.
Marble Palace
Marble Palace is an 18th-century neoclassical palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, renowned for its richly decorated marble interiors and now used as a branch of the Russian Museum.
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E.
Walter Pyramid
Walter Pyramid is a distinctive blue, pyramid-shaped indoor arena on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, best known as a venue for college basketball and volleyball.
- 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: Salt Palace Target entity description: The Salt Palace was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Salt Lake City, Utah, that hosted professional basketball, concerts, and other major events before its demolition.
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A.
Khwabgah
Khwabgah is a historic residential complex within the Mughal imperial city of Fatehpur Sikri, traditionally regarded as the private sleeping quarters of Emperor Akbar.
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B.
Grand Staircase
The Grand Staircase is an ornate central staircase within the Massachusetts State House, known for its impressive architecture and ceremonial significance.
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C.
Sheen Palace
Sheen Palace was a medieval royal residence on the River Thames in Surrey that served as a favored home of English monarchs, including Edward III, before later being rebuilt as Richmond Palace.
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D.
Marble Palace
Marble Palace is an 18th-century neoclassical palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, renowned for its richly decorated marble interiors and now used as a branch of the Russian Museum.
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E.
Walter Pyramid
Walter Pyramid is a distinctive blue, pyramid-shaped indoor arena on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, best known as a venue for college basketball and volleyball.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
demolished building
ⓘ
indoor arena ⓘ multi-purpose arena ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Salt Palace Arena ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | modernist architecture ⓘ |
| capacity |
approximately 12,000 for basketball
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approximately 13,000 for concerts ⓘ |
| city | Salt Lake City ⓘ |
| constructionCompleted | 1969 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| demolished | 1994 ⓘ |
| demolitionReason | structural and functional obsolescence ⓘ |
| homeVenueOf |
Salt Lake Golden Eagles
ⓘ
Utah Jazz ⓘ Utah Stars ⓘ |
| indoor | true ⓘ |
| leagueAssociation |
American Basketball Association
ⓘ
Central Hockey League ⓘ National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| location |
Salt Lake City, Utah
ⓘ
linked to:
Salt Lake City
|
| multiPurpose | true ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Salt Palace (historic pavilion)
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linked to:
Salt Palace
|
| notableEventHosted |
Utah Jazz NBA home games (1979–1991)
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Utah Stars ABA home games (early 1970s) ⓘ major touring concerts ⓘ |
| opened | 1969 ⓘ |
| operator | Salt Lake County ⓘ |
| owner | Salt Lake County ⓘ |
| primarySport | basketball ⓘ |
| region |
Western United States
ⓘ
linked to:
western United States
|
| replacedBy | Delta Center ⓘ |
| secondarySport |
ice hockey
ⓘ
indoor soccer ⓘ |
| siteSubsequentUse | Salt Palace Convention Center expansion ⓘ |
| state | Utah ⓘ |
| status | demolished ⓘ |
| structureType | enclosed arena ⓘ |
| surfaceType | multi-surface ⓘ |
| usedFor |
concerts
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conventions and events ⓘ ice hockey games ⓘ indoor soccer matches ⓘ professional basketball games ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Salt Palace Description of subject: The Salt Palace was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Salt Lake City, Utah, that hosted professional basketball, concerts, and other major events before its demolition.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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