McNichols Sports Arena
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McNichols Sports Arena was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Denver, Colorado, best known for hosting professional basketball and hockey games as well as major concerts and events from the 1970s through the 1990s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McNichols Sports Arena canonical | 24 |
| McNichols Civic Center Building | 2 |
| McNichols Sports Arena, Denver | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1069378 — 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: McNichols Sports Arena Context triple: [Denver Nuggets (ABA), homeArena, McNichols Sports Arena]
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Amway Arena
Amway Arena was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Orlando, Florida, best known as the longtime home venue of the NBA’s Orlando Magic before its replacement by the Amway Center.
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Amway Center
Amway Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Orlando, Florida, best known as the home of the NBA’s Orlando Magic and a major venue for concerts and sporting events.
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C.
Denver Auditorium Arena
Denver Auditorium Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in Denver, Colorado, best known as an early home court of the Denver Nuggets basketball franchise.
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Gill Coliseum
Gill Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, primarily serving as the home venue for the university’s basketball and other athletic programs.
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Nynex Arena
Nynex Arena was the original name of the large indoor entertainment and sports venue now known as Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: McNichols Sports Arena Target entity description: McNichols Sports Arena was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Denver, Colorado, best known for hosting professional basketball and hockey games as well as major concerts and events from the 1970s through the 1990s.
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A.
Amway Arena
Amway Arena was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Orlando, Florida, best known as the longtime home venue of the NBA’s Orlando Magic before its replacement by the Amway Center.
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B.
Amway Center
Amway Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Orlando, Florida, best known as the home of the NBA’s Orlando Magic and a major venue for concerts and sporting events.
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C.
Denver Auditorium Arena
Denver Auditorium Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in Denver, Colorado, best known as an early home court of the Denver Nuggets basketball franchise.
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Gill Coliseum
Gill Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, primarily serving as the home venue for the university’s basketball and other athletic programs.
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E.
Nynex Arena
Nynex Arena was the original name of the large indoor entertainment and sports venue now known as Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
demolished building
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indoor arena ⓘ multi-purpose arena ⓘ |
| brokeGround | 1973 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1973 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| demolished | January 1999 ⓘ |
| demolitionDate | 1999 ⓘ |
| formerName | Big Mac ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
AFL games
ⓘ
IHL games ⓘ MISL games ⓘ NBA games ⓘ NCAA basketball tournament games ⓘ NHL games ⓘ WHA games ⓘ family entertainment shows ⓘ major rock concerts ⓘ |
| inception | 1975 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Denver
ⓘ
linked to:
Denver, Colorado
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| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Colorado ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | William H. McNichols Jr. ⓘ |
| notablePeriodOfUse |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ |
| opened | August 1975 ⓘ |
| openedForUse | 1975 ⓘ |
| operator |
City and County of Denver
ⓘ
linked to:
Denver, Colorado
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| ownedBy |
City and County of Denver
ⓘ
linked to:
Denver, Colorado
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| partOf | Denver sports complex near Mile High Stadium ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
professional basketball games
ⓘ
professional ice hockey games ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Pepsi Center ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity |
about 15,000 for hockey
ⓘ
about 16,000 for basketball ⓘ |
| surface |
hardwood court for basketball
ⓘ
ice rink for hockey ⓘ |
| tenant |
Colorado Avalanche
ⓘ
Colorado Rockies (WHA) ⓘ
linked to:
Colorado Rockies (NHL)
Denver Avalanche (MISL) ⓘ Denver Dynamite (AFL) ⓘ Denver Grizzlies (IHL) ⓘ Denver Nuggets ⓘ Denver Nuggets (ABA) ⓘ |
| usedFor |
arena football
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college basketball ⓘ concerts ⓘ figure skating events ⓘ indoor soccer ⓘ |
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: McNichols Sports Arena Description of subject: McNichols Sports Arena was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Denver, Colorado, best known for hosting professional basketball and hockey games as well as major concerts and events from the 1970s through the 1990s.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: McNichols Sports Arena
subject linked to:
1984 NBA All-Star Weekend
linked to: McNichols Sports Arena
linked to: McNichols Sports Arena