Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena
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Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena is a multi-purpose indoor venue in Spokane, Washington, best known as the home of the WHL’s Spokane Chiefs and a host site for major sports and entertainment events.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena canonical | 6 |
| Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Washington | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4404473 — 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: Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Context triple: [Spokane Chiefs, homeArena, Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena]
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A.
Northwest Arena
Northwest Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in Jamestown, New York, known primarily for hosting ice hockey, figure skating, and community events.
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B.
Baxter Arena
Baxter Arena is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue in Omaha, Nebraska, best known as the home arena for the University of Nebraska Omaha’s athletic programs.
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C.
LaBahn Arena
LaBahn Arena is an ice hockey facility in Madison, Wisconsin, best known as the primary home venue for the University of Wisconsin Badgers women’s ice hockey team.
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D.
Uline Arena
Uline Arena is a historic indoor venue in Washington, D.C., best known for hosting early professional basketball games and notable cultural events, including The Beatles’ first U.S. concert.
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Alerus Center
Alerus Center is a large multi-purpose indoor arena and convention facility in Grand Forks, North Dakota, hosting sports events, concerts, and trade shows.
- 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: Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Target entity description: Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena is a multi-purpose indoor venue in Spokane, Washington, best known as the home of the WHL’s Spokane Chiefs and a host site for major sports and entertainment events.
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A.
Northwest Arena
Northwest Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in Jamestown, New York, known primarily for hosting ice hockey, figure skating, and community events.
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B.
Baxter Arena
Baxter Arena is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue in Omaha, Nebraska, best known as the home arena for the University of Nebraska Omaha’s athletic programs.
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C.
LaBahn Arena
LaBahn Arena is an ice hockey facility in Madison, Wisconsin, best known as the primary home venue for the University of Wisconsin Badgers women’s ice hockey team.
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D.
Uline Arena
Uline Arena is a historic indoor venue in Washington, D.C., best known for hosting early professional basketball games and notable cultural events, including The Beatles’ first U.S. concert.
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E.
Alerus Center
Alerus Center is a large multi-purpose indoor arena and convention facility in Grand Forks, North Dakota, hosting sports events, concerts, and trade shows.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entertainment venue
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ice hockey team ⓘ indoor arena ⓘ multi-purpose arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| brokeGround | 1993 ⓘ |
| category |
1995 establishments in Washington (state)
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Indoor arenas in Washington (state) ⓘ Indoor ice hockey venues in Washington (state) ⓘ Music venues in Washington (state) ⓘ Sports venues in Spokane, Washington ⓘ |
| city |
Spokane
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linked to:
Spokane, Washington
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| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| hasMemorialFunction | honors United States military veterans ⓘ |
| hasParking | on-site parking facilities ⓘ |
| hasScoreboard | center-hung scoreboard ⓘ |
| hasSurface | multi-surface ⓘ |
| hasTenants | Spokane Chiefs ⓘ |
| homeArenaOf | Spokane Chiefs ⓘ |
| hosts |
Western Hockey League games
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college basketball games ⓘ concert tours ⓘ conventions ⓘ family entertainment shows ⓘ professional wrestling events ⓘ trade shows ⓘ |
| league | Western Hockey League ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Spokane County, Washington, United States
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Spokane, Washington, United States ⓘ
linked to:
Spokane, Washington
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| namedFor | military veterans ⓘ |
| nearbyFeature |
Downtown Spokane
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linked to:
Spokane, Washington
Spokane River ⓘ |
| opened | 1995 ⓘ |
| operator | Spokane Public Facilities District ⓘ |
| owner | Spokane Public Facilities District ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
basketball
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concerts ⓘ conventions ⓘ family shows ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ |
| publicTransitAccess | Spokane Transit Authority bus service ⓘ |
| replaced | Spokane Coliseum ⓘ |
| seatingCapacityForBasketball | approximately 12,500 ⓘ |
| seatingCapacityForIceHockey | approximately 12,000 ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| website | https://www.spokanearena.com/ ⓘ |
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: Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Description of subject: Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena is a multi-purpose indoor venue in Spokane, Washington, best known as the home of the WHL’s Spokane Chiefs and a host site for major sports and entertainment events.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.