Houston Astrodome
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The Houston Astrodome is a historic domed sports stadium in Houston, Texas, famed for hosting major events such as the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Astrodome | 21 |
| Houston Astrodome canonical | 18 |
| NRG Astrodome | 4 |
| Houston Astrodome, Houston, Texas, United States | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T288663 — 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: Houston Astrodome Context triple: [Billie Jean King, venueOfBattleOfTheSexes, Houston Astrodome]
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Chicago Stadium
Chicago Stadium was a historic indoor sports arena in Chicago best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls and the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks before its demolition in the 1990s.
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Reliant Stadium
Reliant Stadium, now known as NRG Stadium, is a multi-purpose, retractable-roof sports venue in Houston, Texas, best known as the home of the NFL’s Houston Texans and host of major events including multiple Super Bowls.
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Cable Dahmer Arena
Cable Dahmer Arena is a multi-purpose indoor venue in Independence, Missouri, hosting professional sports events, concerts, and other large-scale entertainment activities.
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Nynex Arena
Nynex Arena was the original name of the large indoor entertainment and sports venue now known as Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.
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American Airlines Center
American Airlines Center is a major multi-purpose arena in Dallas, Texas, best known as the home venue for the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and the NHL’s Dallas Stars and for hosting large concerts and events.
- 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: Houston Astrodome Target entity description: The Houston Astrodome is a historic domed sports stadium in Houston, Texas, famed for hosting major events such as the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
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A.
Chicago Stadium
Chicago Stadium was a historic indoor sports arena in Chicago best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls and the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks before its demolition in the 1990s.
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B.
Reliant Stadium
Reliant Stadium, now known as NRG Stadium, is a multi-purpose, retractable-roof sports venue in Houston, Texas, best known as the home of the NFL’s Houston Texans and host of major events including multiple Super Bowls.
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C.
Cable Dahmer Arena
Cable Dahmer Arena is a multi-purpose indoor venue in Independence, Missouri, hosting professional sports events, concerts, and other large-scale entertainment activities.
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D.
Nynex Arena
Nynex Arena was the original name of the large indoor entertainment and sports venue now known as Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.
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E.
American Airlines Center
American Airlines Center is a major multi-purpose arena in Dallas, Texas, best known as the home venue for the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and the NHL’s Dallas Stars and for hosting large concerts and events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
domed stadium
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landmark ⓘ multi-purpose stadium ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| addedToNationalRegisterOfHistoricPlaces | 2014 ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | domed stadium ⓘ |
| brokeGround | 1962 ⓘ |
| closedToBaseball | 1999 ⓘ |
| closedToEvents | 2008 ⓘ |
| closedToFootball | 1996 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| designatedHoustonLandmark | 2017 ⓘ |
| designedBy |
Hermon Lloyd & W. B. Morgan, and Wilson, Morris, Crain and Anderson
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linked to:
Hermon Lloyd & W. B. Morgan
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| formerName | Harris County Domed Stadium ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLatitude | 29.6847 ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLongitude | -95.4107 ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
1968 MLB All-Star Game
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1973 Battle of the Sexes tennis match ⓘ
linked to:
Battle of the Sexes tennis match
Astros postseason games ⓘ Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ⓘ Houston Oilers playoff games ⓘ Major League Baseball games ⓘ National Football League games ⓘ WrestleMania X-Seven fan events ⓘ boxing matches ⓘ college football games ⓘ concerts ⓘ political rallies ⓘ religious gatherings ⓘ tennis matches ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Houston
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Texas ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Houston Astros ⓘ |
| nicknamed |
Astrodome
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linked to:
Houston Astrodome
Eighth Wonder of the World ⓘ |
| notableEventParticipant |
Billie Jean King
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Bobby Riggs ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first major domed sports stadium
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innovative indoor climate control ⓘ pioneering artificial turf in professional sports ⓘ |
| opened |
1965
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April 9, 1965 ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Harris County ⓘ |
| partOf |
NRG Park
ⓘ
linked to:
NRG Stadium
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| primaryTenant |
Houston Astros
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Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ⓘ Houston Oilers ⓘ |
| roofType | fixed dome ⓘ |
| seatingCapacityBaseball | approximately 54,000 ⓘ |
| seatingCapacityFootball | approximately 62,000 ⓘ |
| structuralEngineer | Walter P. Moore ⓘ |
| surface | AstroTurf ⓘ |
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: Houston Astrodome Description of subject: The Houston Astrodome is a historic domed sports stadium in Houston, Texas, famed for hosting major events such as the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
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