Navin Field
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Navin Field was a historic Major League Baseball stadium in Detroit that served as the longtime home of the city's professional baseball team before being renamed and eventually replaced.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Navin Field canonical | 20 |
| Navin Field (after renaming) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T782603 — 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: Navin Field Context triple: [Detroit Tigers, formerHomeBallpark, Navin Field]
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A.
Nickerson Field
Nickerson Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, now primarily used by Boston University athletics and formerly an early home venue for the New England Patriots (then Boston Patriots).
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B.
Henderson Field
Henderson Field is a strategically vital airfield on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands that became a focal point of intense fighting between Allied and Japanese forces during World War II.
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C.
Valley Children’s Stadium
Valley Children’s Stadium is the on-campus football venue for California State University, Fresno, serving as the home field of the Fresno State Bulldogs.
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Sahlen's Stadium
Sahlen's Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium in Rochester, New York, best known as the longtime home of the Rochester Rhinos and host of major soccer events including the 2013 NWSL Championship.
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O'Kelly–Riddick Stadium
O'Kelly–Riddick Stadium is a college football stadium in Durham, North Carolina, serving as the home field for the North Carolina Central University Eagles.
- 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: Navin Field Target entity description: Navin Field was a historic Major League Baseball stadium in Detroit that served as the longtime home of the city's professional baseball team before being renamed and eventually replaced.
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A.
Nickerson Field
Nickerson Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, now primarily used by Boston University athletics and formerly an early home venue for the New England Patriots (then Boston Patriots).
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B.
Henderson Field
Henderson Field is a strategically vital airfield on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands that became a focal point of intense fighting between Allied and Japanese forces during World War II.
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C.
Valley Children’s Stadium
Valley Children’s Stadium is the on-campus football venue for California State University, Fresno, serving as the home field of the Fresno State Bulldogs.
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D.
Sahlen's Stadium
Sahlen's Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium in Rochester, New York, best known as the longtime home of the Rochester Rhinos and host of major soccer events including the 2013 NWSL Championship.
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E.
O'Kelly–Riddick Stadium
O'Kelly–Riddick Stadium is a college football stadium in Durham, North Carolina, serving as the home field for the North Carolina Central University Eagles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball stadium
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historic site ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| address | Michigan and Trumbull Streets, Detroit ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | classic steel-and-concrete ballpark ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Frank Navin, Detroit Tigers owner and president ⓘ |
| capacity | approximately 23,000 (original configuration) ⓘ |
| category |
Baseball venues in Michigan
ⓘ
Defunct Major League Baseball venues ⓘ Sports venues in Detroit ⓘ |
| city | Detroit ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial | steel and concrete ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| demolishedAsPartOf | Tiger Stadium demolition ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| expandedCapacity | over 50,000 (after later expansions as Briggs Stadium/Tiger Stadium) ⓘ |
| fieldOrientation | home plate at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull ⓘ |
| formerNameOf |
Briggs Stadium
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Tiger Stadium ⓘ |
| historicStatus | considered a classic "jewel box" ballpark ⓘ |
| homeTeam | Detroit Tigers ⓘ |
| hostedLeague | American League ⓘ |
| inauguralSeason | 1912 Detroit Tigers season ⓘ |
| laterName |
Briggs Stadium
ⓘ
Tiger Stadium ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| location |
Detroit, Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Detroit
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| namedAfter | Frank Navin ⓘ |
| notableEvent | hosted Detroit Tigers home games starting in 1912 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being long-time home of the Detroit Tigers ⓘ |
| opened | 1912 ⓘ |
| openingDate | April 20, 1912 ⓘ |
| outfieldFeature | enclosed double-decked grandstands after expansions ⓘ |
| owner | Frank Navin ⓘ |
| predecessor | Bennett Park ⓘ |
| primaryUse | professional baseball ⓘ |
| renamedAs |
Briggs Stadium
ⓘ
Tiger Stadium ⓘ |
| replaced | Bennett Park ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan (most of state)
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| successorVenue | Comerica Park ⓘ |
| surface | natural grass ⓘ |
| tenant | Detroit Tigers ⓘ |
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: Navin Field Description of subject: Navin Field was a historic Major League Baseball stadium in Detroit that served as the longtime home of the city's professional baseball team before being renamed and eventually replaced.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Navin Field