Washington Coliseum
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Washington Coliseum is a historic indoor arena in Washington, D.C., best known for hosting major sporting events, concerts, and notably the Beatles’ first U.S. concert in 1964.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Washington Coliseum canonical | 3 |
| Washington Coliseum, Washington, D.C. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3512792 — 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: Washington Coliseum Context triple: [Uline Arena, alsoKnownAs, Washington Coliseum]
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A.
Pacific Coliseum
Pacific Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Vancouver, Canada, best known for hosting figure skating and short track speed skating events during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a historic multi-purpose stadium in Los Angeles best known for hosting major events including the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics and serving as a longtime home for prominent college and professional sports teams.
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Seattle Center Coliseum
Seattle Center Coliseum, later known as KeyArena, was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Seattle best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Seattle SuperSonics and a major venue for sports and entertainment events.
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Exhibition Stadium
Exhibition Stadium was a multi-purpose outdoor sports venue in Toronto, Canada, best known as the original home of the Toronto Blue Jays before the opening of the SkyDome (now Rogers Centre).
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Multnomah Stadium
Multnomah Stadium was the historic name of the long-standing sports venue in Portland, Oregon now known as Providence Park, which has hosted baseball, football, and soccer events for over a century.
- 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: Washington Coliseum Target entity description: Washington Coliseum is a historic indoor arena in Washington, D.C., best known for hosting major sporting events, concerts, and notably the Beatles’ first U.S. concert in 1964.
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A.
Pacific Coliseum
Pacific Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Vancouver, Canada, best known for hosting figure skating and short track speed skating events during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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B.
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a historic multi-purpose stadium in Los Angeles best known for hosting major events including the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics and serving as a longtime home for prominent college and professional sports teams.
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C.
Seattle Center Coliseum
Seattle Center Coliseum, later known as KeyArena, was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Seattle best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Seattle SuperSonics and a major venue for sports and entertainment events.
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D.
Exhibition Stadium
Exhibition Stadium was a multi-purpose outdoor sports venue in Toronto, Canada, best known as the original home of the Toronto Blue Jays before the opening of the SkyDome (now Rogers Centre).
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E.
Multnomah Stadium
Multnomah Stadium was the historic name of the long-standing sports venue in Portland, Oregon now known as Providence Park, which has hosted baseball, football, and soccer events for over a century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concert venue
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historic building ⓘ indoor arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| address | 3rd and M Streets NE, Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Uline Ice Arena
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Washington Coliseum ⓘ |
| architect | George T. Santmyers ⓘ |
| capacity |
approximately 8,000 to 9,000 for hockey and basketball
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over 9,000 for concerts and boxing ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| eraOfProminence |
1940s
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1950s ⓘ 1960s ⓘ |
| hasNearbyStation | NoMa–Gallaudet U station ⓘ |
| historicSignificance |
early major indoor arena in Washington, D.C.
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site of landmark rock and roll concert ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
boxing matches
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circus performances ⓘ political rallies ⓘ professional wrestling events ⓘ religious gatherings ⓘ |
| hostedTeam |
Washington Capitols
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Washington Lions ⓘ |
| hostedTeamSport |
basketball
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ice hockey ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
District of Columbia
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United States capital ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Miguel L. Uline ⓘ |
| nearbyTransitSystem | Washington Metro ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Near Northeast, Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| notableEvent | The Beatles’ first full U.S. concert ⓘ |
| notableEventDate | February 11, 1964 ⓘ |
| notablePerformer | The Beatles ⓘ |
| opened | 1941 ⓘ |
| originalName | Uline Arena ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
basketball venue
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boxing venue ⓘ concert hall ⓘ ice hockey venue ⓘ |
| redevelopedAs | mixed-use commercial space ⓘ |
| redevelopedUse |
entertainment space
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office space ⓘ retail space ⓘ |
| roofType | arched roof ⓘ |
| structureType | reinforced concrete building ⓘ |
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: Washington Coliseum Description of subject: Washington Coliseum is a historic indoor arena in Washington, D.C., best known for hosting major sporting events, concerts, and notably the Beatles’ first U.S. concert in 1964.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Washington Coliseum