The Forum
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The Forum is the famed Montreal arena that served as the historic home of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens and hosted numerous iconic hockey and entertainment events.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Forum canonical | 3 |
| The Old Forum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1029547 — 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: The Forum Context triple: [Montreal Forum, hasNickname, The Forum]
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A.
The Forum
The Forum is a historic indoor arena in Inglewood, California, best known for hosting Los Angeles Lakers and Kings games as well as major concerts and entertainment events.
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B.
The Gathering Place
The Gathering Place is a popular nickname for Oahu, the most populous Hawaiian island and home to the state capital, Honolulu.
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C.
Foros
Foros is a coastal resort settlement on the southern shore of Crimea, known for its scenic cliffs, beaches, and the landmark Church of the Resurrection overlooking the Black Sea.
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D.
El Portal
El Portal is a small unincorporated community in Mariposa County, California, serving as a gateway to Yosemite National Park along the Merced River.
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E.
Συμπόσιον
Συμπόσιον is the original Ancient Greek title of Plato’s philosophical dialogue commonly known in English as the Symposium, which explores the nature of love through a series of speeches at a banquet.
- 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: The Forum Target entity description: The Forum is the famed Montreal arena that served as the historic home of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens and hosted numerous iconic hockey and entertainment events.
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A.
The Forum
The Forum is a historic indoor arena in Inglewood, California, best known for hosting Los Angeles Lakers and Kings games as well as major concerts and entertainment events.
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B.
The Gathering Place
The Gathering Place is a popular nickname for Oahu, the most populous Hawaiian island and home to the state capital, Honolulu.
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C.
Foros
Foros is a coastal resort settlement on the southern shore of Crimea, known for its scenic cliffs, beaches, and the landmark Church of the Resurrection overlooking the Black Sea.
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D.
El Portal
El Portal is a small unincorporated community in Mariposa County, California, serving as a gateway to Yosemite National Park along the Merced River.
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E.
Συμπόσιον
Συμπόσιον is the original Ancient Greek title of Plato’s philosophical dialogue commonly known in English as the Symposium, which explores the nature of love through a series of speeches at a banquet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ice hockey venue
ⓘ
indoor arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| address | 2313 Sainte-Catherine Street West, Montreal ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Forum ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | arena ⓘ |
| category |
Defunct National Hockey League venues
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Indoor ice hockey venues in Canada ⓘ Montreal Canadiens ⓘ Sports venues in Montreal ⓘ |
| city | Montreal ⓘ |
| closed | 1996 ⓘ |
| convertedUse |
cinema
ⓘ
entertainment complex ⓘ retail space ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| countryCode | CA ⓘ |
| formerName | The Forum ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | culturally significant sports venue in Canada ⓘ |
| historicSignificance |
historic home of the Montreal Canadiens
ⓘ
site of numerous Stanley Cup victories ⓘ |
| homeArenaOf | Montreal Canadiens ⓘ |
| hostedEventType |
NHL games
ⓘ
Stanley Cup Finals ⓘ
linked to:
NHL playoffs
boxing matches ⓘ concerts ⓘ ice hockey games ⓘ political rallies ⓘ |
| languageRegion |
French-speaking Canada
ⓘ
linked to:
Quebec, Canada
|
| league | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
ⓘ
Montreal ⓘ Quebec ⓘ
linked to:
Quebec, Canada
|
| notableFor |
historic NHL games
ⓘ
iconic hockey events ⓘ major entertainment events ⓘ |
| notableTenant | Montreal Maroons ⓘ |
| opened | 1924 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1924-11-29 ⓘ |
| primaryUse | ice hockey ⓘ |
| region |
Quebec
ⓘ
linked to:
Quebec, Canada
|
| replacedBy | Bell Centre ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity | approximately 17,959 ⓘ |
| seatingCapacityForHockey | approximately 17,959 ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| successorVenue | Bell Centre ⓘ |
| tenant | Montreal Canadiens ⓘ |
| usedFrom | 1924 ⓘ |
| usedUntil | 1996 ⓘ |
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: The Forum Description of subject: The Forum is the famed Montreal arena that served as the historic home of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens and hosted numerous iconic hockey and entertainment events.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.