BC Place
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BC Place is a large multi-purpose stadium in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, best known as the home of the BC Lions and Vancouver Whitecaps FC and for hosting major sporting and entertainment events.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BC Place canonical | 21 |
| BC Place Stadium | 6 |
| BC Place, Vancouver, Canada | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T405343 — 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: BC Place Context triple: [Vancouver, hasStadium, BC Place]
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A.
Scotiabank Arena
Scotiabank Arena is a major multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue in downtown Toronto, serving as the home arena for the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs and the NBA’s Toronto Raptors.
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B.
Tim Hortons Field
Tim Hortons Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Hamilton, Ontario, best known as the home of the CFL’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats and a venue for major sporting and entertainment events.
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C.
Sun Life Stadium
Sun Life Stadium is a multi-purpose sports venue in Miami Gardens, Florida, best known as the longtime home of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and host of numerous Super Bowls and major events.
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D.
Maple Leaf Gardens
Maple Leaf Gardens is a historic indoor arena in Toronto, Canada, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs and a major venue for professional sports and entertainment events.
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E.
BMO Field
BMO Field is an outdoor sports stadium in Toronto best known as the home of Major League Soccer’s Toronto FC and the Canadian national soccer teams.
- 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: BC Place Target entity description: BC Place is a large multi-purpose stadium in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, best known as the home of the BC Lions and Vancouver Whitecaps FC and for hosting major sporting and entertainment events.
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A.
Scotiabank Arena
Scotiabank Arena is a major multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue in downtown Toronto, serving as the home arena for the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs and the NBA’s Toronto Raptors.
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B.
Tim Hortons Field
Tim Hortons Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Hamilton, Ontario, best known as the home of the CFL’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats and a venue for major sporting and entertainment events.
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C.
Sun Life Stadium
Sun Life Stadium is a multi-purpose sports venue in Miami Gardens, Florida, best known as the longtime home of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and host of numerous Super Bowls and major events.
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D.
Maple Leaf Gardens
Maple Leaf Gardens is a historic indoor arena in Toronto, Canada, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs and a major venue for professional sports and entertainment events.
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E.
BMO Field
BMO Field is an outdoor sports stadium in Toronto best known as the home of Major League Soccer’s Toronto FC and the Canadian national soccer teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multi-purpose stadium
ⓘ
sports venue ⓘ stadium ⓘ |
| category |
Canadian football venues
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Indoor arenas in British Columbia ⓘ Soccer venues in Canada ⓘ Sports venues in Vancouver ⓘ |
| cityLandmark | Vancouver skyline ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
LED lighting system
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large centre-hung video board ⓘ retractable fabric roof ⓘ |
| hasRoofType | retractable roof ⓘ |
| homeVenueOf |
BC Lions
ⓘ
Vancouver Whitecaps FC ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony
ⓘ
2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony ⓘ 2010 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony ⓘ 2010 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony ⓘ 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final ⓘ
linked to:
2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup
CFL Grey Cup games ⓘ
linked to:
Grey Cup
|
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Vancouver ⓘ downtown Vancouver ⓘ
linked to:
Vancouver
|
| locationCity | Vancouver ⓘ |
| locationCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| locationProvince | British Columbia ⓘ |
| nearbyFeature |
False Creek
ⓘ
Rogers Arena ⓘ |
| opened | 1983-06-19 ⓘ |
| openingYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | BC Pavilion Corporation ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Province of British Columbia
ⓘ
linked to:
British Columbia
|
| primaryTenant |
BC Lions
ⓘ
Vancouver Whitecaps FC ⓘ |
| renovated |
2009
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2010 ⓘ 2011 ⓘ |
| roofReplaced | 2010-2011 ⓘ |
| roofType | air-supported roof (original) ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity | approximately 54,500 ⓘ |
| shortName | BC Place ⓘ |
| surface | artificial turf ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Canadian football
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concerts ⓘ exhibitions ⓘ soccer ⓘ special events ⓘ trade shows ⓘ |
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: BC Place Description of subject: BC Place is a large multi-purpose stadium in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, best known as the home of the BC Lions and Vancouver Whitecaps FC and for hosting major sporting and entertainment events.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Stadium–Chinatown SkyTrain station
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