The Arena
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The Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in Philadelphia that hosted boxing, wrestling, basketball, and various other events throughout much of the 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Arena canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4998556 — 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: The Arena Context triple: [Philadelphia Arena, alsoKnownAs, The Arena]
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A.
The Arena
The Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in St. Louis, Missouri, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s St. Louis Blues before its demolition in 1999.
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B.
Arenas
Arenas is a Spanish-origin surname most notably associated with former NBA All-Star basketball player Gilbert Arenas.
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C.
Arena 2000
Arena 2000 is a modern multi-purpose indoor ice hockey arena in Yaroslavl, Russia, best known as the home venue of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey club.
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D.
Legacy Arena
Legacy Arena is a large indoor sports and entertainment venue in Birmingham, Alabama, hosting basketball games, concerts, and other major events.
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E.
First Arena
First Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in downtown Elmira, New York, best known as the home rink for local ice hockey and community events.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: The Arena Target entity description: The Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in Philadelphia that hosted boxing, wrestling, basketball, and various other events throughout much of the 20th century.
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A.
The Arena
The Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in St. Louis, Missouri, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s St. Louis Blues before its demolition in 1999.
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B.
Arenas
Arenas is a Spanish-origin surname most notably associated with former NBA All-Star basketball player Gilbert Arenas.
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C.
Arena 2000
Arena 2000 is a modern multi-purpose indoor ice hockey arena in Yaroslavl, Russia, best known as the home venue of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey club.
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D.
Legacy Arena
Legacy Arena is a large indoor sports and entertainment venue in Birmingham, Alabama, hosting basketball games, concerts, and other major events.
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E.
First Arena
First Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in downtown Elmira, New York, best known as the home rink for local ice hockey and community events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entertainment venue
ⓘ
indoor arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| capacityCategory | mid‑sized arena ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| demolitionDate | 1983 ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| formerName | Philadelphia Arena ⓘ |
| hasSurface | indoor multi‑purpose floor ⓘ |
| heritage | historic sports venue in Philadelphia ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia ⓘ West Philadelphia ⓘ |
| notableFor |
hosting major boxing cards in Philadelphia
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hosting professional wrestling events in mid‑20th century ⓘ serving as an early home of the Philadelphia Warriors ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1920 ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Greater Philadelphia area
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linked to:
greater Philadelphia area
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| replacedBy |
Philadelphia Civic Center
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Spectrum (Philadelphia) ⓘ
linked to:
Spectrum
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| sport |
basketball
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boxing ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ wrestling ⓘ |
| status | demolished ⓘ |
| tenant |
Philadelphia Arrows
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Philadelphia Bulldogs (ice hockey) ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia Bulldogs
Philadelphia Falcons (ice hockey) ⓘ Philadelphia Ramblers ⓘ Philadelphia Ramblers (EHL) ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia Firebirds
Philadelphia Rockets ⓘ Philadelphia Sphas ⓘ Philadelphia Warriors ⓘ Philadelphia Warriors (BAA/NBA) ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia Warriors
|
| timePeriodOfProminence |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ |
| usedFor |
basketball
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boxing ⓘ boxing world title fights ⓘ circus events ⓘ concerts ⓘ conventions ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ political rallies ⓘ professional wrestling ⓘ roller derby ⓘ tennis ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: The Arena Description of subject: The Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in Philadelphia that hosted boxing, wrestling, basketball, and various other events throughout much of the 20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.