Shea’s Performing Arts Center
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Shea’s Performing Arts Center is a historic theater and major performing arts venue in downtown Buffalo, New York, known for hosting Broadway productions, concerts, and other live events.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shea's Performing Arts Center | 2 |
| Shea’s Performing Arts Center canonical | 2 |
| Shea's Buffalo Theatre | 1 |
| Shea’s Performing Arts Center, Inc. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1024381 — 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: Shea’s Performing Arts Center Context triple: [Buffalo, hasCulturalInstitution, Shea’s Performing Arts Center]
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A.
Marcus Performing Arts Center
The Marcus Performing Arts Center is a major performing arts venue in downtown Milwaukee that hosts theater, music, dance, and other cultural events.
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B.
Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts
The Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts is a historic cultural venue and theater complex that hosts concerts, plays, films, and community events in downtown Muskegon, Michigan.
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C.
Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts is a major historic performing arts venue and cultural hub in downtown Hartford, Connecticut, known for hosting Broadway tours, concerts, and community events.
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D.
Carson Center for the Performing Arts
The Carson Center for the Performing Arts is a regional performing arts venue and cultural hub in Paducah, Kentucky, hosting concerts, theater, and community events.
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E.
F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts
The F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts is a historic theater and cultural venue in downtown Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, hosting concerts, theater productions, films, and community events.
- 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: Shea’s Performing Arts Center Target entity description: Shea’s Performing Arts Center is a historic theater and major performing arts venue in downtown Buffalo, New York, known for hosting Broadway productions, concerts, and other live events.
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A.
Marcus Performing Arts Center
The Marcus Performing Arts Center is a major performing arts venue in downtown Milwaukee that hosts theater, music, dance, and other cultural events.
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B.
Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts
The Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts is a historic cultural venue and theater complex that hosts concerts, plays, films, and community events in downtown Muskegon, Michigan.
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C.
Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts is a major historic performing arts venue and cultural hub in downtown Hartford, Connecticut, known for hosting Broadway tours, concerts, and community events.
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D.
Carson Center for the Performing Arts
The Carson Center for the Performing Arts is a regional performing arts venue and cultural hub in Paducah, Kentucky, hosting concerts, theater, and community events.
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E.
F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts
The F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts is a historic theater and cultural venue in downtown Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, hosting concerts, theater productions, films, and community events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic building
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performing arts center ⓘ theater ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Neo-Spanish Baroque
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linked to:
Spanish Baroque Revival
Spanish Baroque ⓘ |
| category |
Performing arts centers in New York (state)
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Theatres in Buffalo, New York ⓘ Tourist attractions in Buffalo, New York ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| hasPart |
Mezzanine
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Mighty Wurlitzer theater organ ⓘ
linked to:
Wurlitzer theatre organ
balcony ⓘ box office ⓘ lobby ⓘ main auditorium ⓘ marquee ⓘ orchestra level ⓘ proscenium stage ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Register of Historic Places listing
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linked to:
National Register of Historic Places
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| inception | 1926 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Buffalo, New York
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linked to:
Buffalo
downtown Buffalo ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Erie County, New York ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Main Street ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Michael Shea ⓘ |
| notableEventType |
Broadway touring productions
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comedy shows ⓘ concerts ⓘ family shows ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
grand lobby
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lavish interior decoration ⓘ ornate ceiling ⓘ |
| numberOfSeats | about 3000 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1926 ⓘ |
| operator |
Shea’s Performing Arts Center, Inc.
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linked to:
Shea’s Performing Arts Center
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| originalFunction | movie palace ⓘ |
| ownedBy | nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| partOf | Theatre District, Buffalo ⓘ |
| publicTransitAccess | Buffalo Metro Rail ⓘ |
| significantPeriod |
golden age of movie palaces
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vaudeville era ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 646 Main Street ⓘ |
| use |
concerts
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live theater ⓘ performing arts ⓘ touring Broadway productions ⓘ |
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: Shea’s Performing Arts Center Description of subject: Shea’s Performing Arts Center is a historic theater and major performing arts venue in downtown Buffalo, New York, known for hosting Broadway productions, concerts, and other live events.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Shea’s Performing Arts Center