Philadelphia Arena
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Philadelphia Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in Philadelphia that hosted professional basketball games, boxing matches, and various other events during much of the 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philadelphia Arena canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T951033 — 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)
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Target entity: Philadelphia Arena Context triple: [Philadelphia Warriors, homeArena, Philadelphia Arena]
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Philips Arena
Philips Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, best known as a former home venue for the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers and the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks.
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Boston Garden
Boston Garden was a famed indoor sports and entertainment arena in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Boston Celtics and the NHL’s Boston Bruins.
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C.
Ball Arena
Ball Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Denver that hosts major professional basketball and hockey games as well as concerts and other large events.
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D.
Gainbridge Fieldhouse
Gainbridge Fieldhouse is a major indoor arena in downtown Indianapolis best known as the home of the NBA’s Indiana Pacers and WNBA’s Indiana Fever.
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E.
Capital One Arena
Capital One Arena is a major indoor sports and entertainment venue in Washington, D.C., best known as the home of the NHL’s Washington Capitals.
- 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: Philadelphia Arena Target entity description: Philadelphia Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in Philadelphia that hosted professional basketball games, boxing matches, and various other events during much of the 20th century.
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A.
Philips Arena
Philips Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, best known as a former home venue for the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers and the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks.
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B.
Boston Garden
Boston Garden was a famed indoor sports and entertainment arena in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Boston Celtics and the NHL’s Boston Bruins.
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C.
Ball Arena
Ball Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Denver that hosts major professional basketball and hockey games as well as concerts and other large events.
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D.
Gainbridge Fieldhouse
Gainbridge Fieldhouse is a major indoor arena in downtown Indianapolis best known as the home of the NBA’s Indiana Pacers and WNBA’s Indiana Fever.
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E.
Capital One Arena
Capital One Arena is a major indoor sports and entertainment venue in Washington, D.C., best known as the home of the NHL’s Washington Capitals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entertainment venue
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indoor arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Philadelphia Auditorium
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linked to:
Philadelphia Civic Center
The Arena ⓘ |
| category |
Basketball venues in Pennsylvania
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Boxing venues in Pennsylvania ⓘ Defunct indoor arenas in the United States ⓘ Defunct sports venues in Philadelphia ⓘ Indoor ice hockey venues in Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| city | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| demolished | 1983 ⓘ |
| historic | true ⓘ |
| hostedEventType |
boxing matches
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circus performances ⓘ concerts ⓘ ice hockey games ⓘ political rallies ⓘ professional basketball games ⓘ wrestling events ⓘ |
| location | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| notableFor |
hosting American Hockey League games
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hosting early NBA games ⓘ hosting professional boxing title bouts ⓘ |
| opened | 1920 ⓘ |
| operationalPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
basketball
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boxing ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ professional wrestling ⓘ |
| servedMetropolitanArea | Delaware Valley ⓘ |
| sport |
basketball
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boxing ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ wrestling ⓘ |
| state | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| tenant |
La Salle Explorers men’s basketball
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linked to:
La Salle Explorers men's basketball
Philadelphia Blazers ⓘ Philadelphia Bulldogs ⓘ Philadelphia Falcons ⓘ Philadelphia Firebirds ⓘ Philadelphia Ramblers ⓘ Philadelphia Rockets ⓘ Philadelphia Sphas ⓘ Philadelphia Tapers ⓘ Philadelphia Warriors ⓘ Temple Owls men’s basketball ⓘ
linked to:
Temple Owls men's basketball
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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: Philadelphia Arena Description of subject: Philadelphia Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in Philadelphia that hosted professional basketball games, boxing matches, and various other events during much of the 20th century.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.