Checkerdome
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National Basketball Association team
National Hockey League team
college basketball team
entertainment venue
indoor arena
sports arena
Checkerdome was the popular nickname for the St. Louis Arena, a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in St. Louis, Missouri.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Checkerdome | 4 |
| Checkerdome canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2781898 — 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: Checkerdome Context triple: [St. Louis Arena, alsoKnownAs, Checkerdome]
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A.
Kwintsheul
Kwintsheul is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland, known for its greenhouse horticulture and location within the Westland region.
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B.
The Den
The Den is the official student cheering section for UCLA athletics, known for its energetic support at Bruins games, including women's basketball.
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C.
Holthees
Holthees is a small village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, known for its rural character and historic church.
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D.
Bramble
Bramble is a modern classic gin-based cocktail typically made with lemon juice, sugar syrup, and blackberry liqueur, served over crushed ice.
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E.
Overhoeks
Overhoeks is a modern waterfront district in Amsterdam known for its contemporary architecture, cultural venues, and redevelopment of former industrial land along the IJ river.
- 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: Checkerdome Target entity description: Checkerdome was the popular nickname for the St. Louis Arena, a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in St. Louis, Missouri.
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A.
Kwintsheul
Kwintsheul is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland, known for its greenhouse horticulture and location within the Westland region.
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B.
The Den
The Den is the official student cheering section for UCLA athletics, known for its energetic support at Bruins games, including women's basketball.
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C.
Holthees
Holthees is a small village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, known for its rural character and historic church.
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D.
Bramble
Bramble is a modern classic gin-based cocktail typically made with lemon juice, sugar syrup, and blackberry liqueur, served over crushed ice.
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E.
Overhoeks
Overhoeks is a modern waterfront district in Amsterdam known for its contemporary architecture, cultural venues, and redevelopment of former industrial land along the IJ river.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
National Basketball Association team
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National Hockey League team ⓘ college basketball team ⓘ entertainment venue ⓘ entertainment venue ⓘ indoor arena ⓘ indoor arena ⓘ sports arena ⓘ sports arena ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Barn
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Checkerdome ⓘ The Arena ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Art Deco ⓘ |
| city |
St. Louis
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linked to:
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| demolished | 1999-01-01 ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
NBA games
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NHL games ⓘ college basketball games ⓘ concerts ⓘ professional wrestling events ⓘ |
| location |
St. Louis, Missouri
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
|
| namedAfter | checkerboard-pattern roof advertising design ⓘ |
| nicknameOf | St. Louis Arena ⓘ |
| nicknamePeriod |
1980s
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late 1970s ⓘ |
| opened | 1929-01-01 ⓘ |
| owner |
City of St. Louis
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linked to:
Saint Louis City
|
| primaryUse |
basketball
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concerts ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ |
| renovated | 1967-01-01 ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity | 18000 ⓘ |
| state | Missouri ⓘ |
| surface | multi-surface ⓘ |
| tenant |
Saint Louis Billikens men's basketball
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linked to:
Saint Louis Billikens
St. Louis Blues ⓘ St. Louis Hawks ⓘ
linked to:
Atlanta Hawks
|
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: Checkerdome Description of subject: Checkerdome was the popular nickname for the St. Louis Arena, a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in St. Louis, Missouri.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Checkerdome
linked to: Checkerdome
linked to: Checkerdome
linked to: Checkerdome
1978 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship with Kentucky
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finalFourVenue
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The Checkerdome
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linked to: Checkerdome