Compaq Center
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Compaq Center was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Houston, Texas, best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Houston Rockets before its conversion into a megachurch facility.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Compaq Center canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2422102 — 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: Compaq Center Context triple: [Houston Rockets, formerArena, Compaq Center]
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A.
Compaq Center at San Jose
Compaq Center at San Jose was a major indoor sports and entertainment arena in San Jose, California, that served as the longtime home of the NHL’s San Jose Sharks.
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B.
MetroTech Center
MetroTech Center is a major business and academic complex in Brooklyn that houses office towers, university facilities, and public spaces forming a key technology and innovation hub.
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C.
Capital One Hall
Capital One Hall is a modern performing arts and events venue in Tysons, Virginia, hosting concerts, theater productions, and community performances.
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D.
Voorhees Computing Center
Voorhees Computing Center is a major academic computing and technology hub on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus, housing computer labs, networking infrastructure, and related IT services for students and faculty.
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E.
Sullivan Center
The Sullivan Center is a historic Chicago building renowned for its Louis Sullivan–designed architecture and prominent role as a former department store, now housing retail and educational spaces.
- 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: Compaq Center Target entity description: Compaq Center was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Houston, Texas, best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Houston Rockets before its conversion into a megachurch facility.
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A.
Compaq Center at San Jose
Compaq Center at San Jose was a major indoor sports and entertainment arena in San Jose, California, that served as the longtime home of the NHL’s San Jose Sharks.
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B.
MetroTech Center
MetroTech Center is a major business and academic complex in Brooklyn that houses office towers, university facilities, and public spaces forming a key technology and innovation hub.
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C.
Capital One Hall
Capital One Hall is a modern performing arts and events venue in Tysons, Virginia, hosting concerts, theater productions, and community performances.
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D.
Voorhees Computing Center
Voorhees Computing Center is a major academic computing and technology hub on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus, housing computer labs, networking infrastructure, and related IT services for students and faculty.
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E.
Sullivan Center
The Sullivan Center is a historic Chicago building renowned for its Louis Sullivan–designed architecture and prominent role as a former department store, now housing retail and educational spaces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building in Houston
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former NBA arena ⓘ indoor arena ⓘ multi-purpose arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| category |
Defunct indoor arenas in Texas
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Former National Basketball Association venues ⓘ Megachurches in the United States ⓘ Sports venues in Houston ⓘ |
| city | Houston ⓘ |
| closedAsSportsArena | 2003 ⓘ |
| convertedTo | megachurch facility ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| currentUse | Lakewood Church ⓘ |
| formerFunction |
home arena of the Houston Aeros
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home arena of the Houston Comets ⓘ home arena of the Houston Rockets ⓘ |
| formerName | The Summit ⓘ |
| hasReligiousAffiliation | non-denominational Christian (via Lakewood Church) ⓘ |
| leaseTo | Lakewood Church ⓘ |
| location |
Houston, Texas
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linked to:
Houston, Texas, United States
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| notableFor | being longtime home of the NBA’s Houston Rockets ⓘ |
| opened | 1975 ⓘ |
| openedAs | The Summit ⓘ |
| operator | Lakewood Church ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
City of Houston (historically)
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linked to:
Houston, Texas, United States
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| primaryTenant |
Houston Aeros
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Houston Comets ⓘ Houston Rockets ⓘ |
| renamed |
1998
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Compaq Center ⓘ |
| renovated | 1989 ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Toyota Center ⓘ |
| sponsoredBy | Compaq ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| surface | hardwood court (for basketball) ⓘ |
| tenantEnd |
Houston Aeros 2003
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Houston Comets 2003 ⓘ Houston Rockets 2003 ⓘ |
| tenantStart |
Houston Aeros 1994
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Houston Comets 1997 ⓘ Houston Rockets 1975 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
basketball
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concerts ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ professional wrestling events ⓘ religious services ⓘ |
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: Compaq Center Description of subject: Compaq Center was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Houston, Texas, best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Houston Rockets before its conversion into a megachurch facility.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.