Montreal Forum
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The Montreal Forum was a historic indoor arena in Montreal, Quebec, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens and a legendary venue in professional hockey history.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Montreal Forum canonical | 33 |
| Montreal Forum site | 2 |
| Montreal Forum building | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T109007 — 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: Montreal Forum Context triple: [1993 NHL All-Star Game, arena, Montreal Forum]
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Maple Leaf Gardens
Maple Leaf Gardens is a historic indoor arena in Toronto, Canada, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs and a major venue for professional sports and entertainment events.
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B.
Thompson–Boling Arena
Thompson–Boling Arena is a large multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue located on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville.
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C.
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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D.
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden is a famous multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City known for hosting major sports events, concerts, and entertainment spectacles.
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TD Garden
TD Garden is a major multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the home venue of the NBA's Boston Celtics and the NHL's Boston Bruins.
- 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: Montreal Forum Target entity description: The Montreal Forum was a historic indoor arena in Montreal, Quebec, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens and a legendary venue in professional hockey history.
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A.
Maple Leaf Gardens
Maple Leaf Gardens is a historic indoor arena in Toronto, Canada, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs and a major venue for professional sports and entertainment events.
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B.
Thompson–Boling Arena
Thompson–Boling Arena is a large multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue located on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville.
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C.
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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D.
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden is a famous multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City known for hosting major sports events, concerts, and entertainment spectacles.
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E.
TD Garden
TD Garden is a major multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the home venue of the NBA's Boston Celtics and the NHL's Boston Bruins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former building
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historic site ⓘ ice hockey venue ⓘ indoor arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| address | 2313 Sainte-Catherine Street West ⓘ |
| alsoHostedEventType |
concerts
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figure skating shows ⓘ political rallies ⓘ |
| alsoHostedSport |
basketball
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boxing ⓘ wrestling ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | early 20th-century arena ⓘ |
| capacityForConcerts | up to about 18000 ⓘ |
| capacityForHockey | 17500 ⓘ |
| cityBlock | Atwater Avenue and Sainte-Catherine Street West ⓘ |
| closed | 1996-03-11 ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| currentUse |
cinema
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entertainment complex ⓘ restaurants ⓘ retail space ⓘ |
| demolished | 1998 ⓘ |
| functionedAs | multi-purpose arena ⓘ |
| hasNickname |
The Forum
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The Old Forum ⓘ
linked to:
The Forum
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| heritageStatus | important cultural landmark in Montreal ⓘ |
| homeTeamFrom |
Montreal Canadiens, 1926
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linked to:
Montreal Canadiens
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| homeTeamUntil |
Montreal Canadiens, 1996
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linked to:
Montreal Canadiens
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| leagueOfPrimaryTenant | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
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Montreal ⓘ Quebec ⓘ
linked to:
Quebec, Canada
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| neighborhood | Shaughnessy Village ⓘ |
| notableFor |
historic home of the Montreal Canadiens
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legendary atmosphere for professional hockey ⓘ site of numerous Stanley Cup victories ⓘ |
| opened | 1924-11-29 ⓘ |
| operator |
Montreal Canadiens (historical)
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linked to:
Montreal Canadiens
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| originalName | Montreal Forum ⓘ |
| owner |
Montreal Canadiens (historical)
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linked to:
Montreal Canadiens
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| primaryTenant | Montreal Canadiens ⓘ |
| renovated |
1968
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1998 ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Bell Centre ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity | 17500 ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| surface | ice ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Montreal Forum Description of subject: The Montreal Forum was a historic indoor arena in Montreal, Quebec, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens and a legendary venue in professional hockey history.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
NHL All-Star Game 1993
subject linked to:
Richard Riot of 1955 in Montreal
linked to: Montreal Forum
linked to: Montreal Forum
linked to: Montreal Forum
subject linked to:
National Hockey League season 1978–79