Thunderbird Arena
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Thunderbird Arena is an ice hockey and multi-purpose sports venue located at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thunderbird Arena canonical | 4 |
| UBC Thunderbird Arena | 2 |
| Protrans Arena (within Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5711374 — 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: Thunderbird Arena Context triple: [Thunderbirds, homeVenue, Thunderbird Arena]
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A.
Thompson Arena
Thompson Arena is an ice hockey venue on the campus of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, known for hosting Dartmouth’s collegiate hockey games and other ice events.
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B.
Central Energy Trust Arena
Central Energy Trust Arena is a major multi-purpose sports and events stadium complex located in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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C.
Selland Arena
Selland Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Fresno, California, known for hosting concerts, sporting events, and large community gatherings.
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D.
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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E.
Dale F. Halton Arena
Dale F. Halton Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports venue on the University of North Carolina at Charlotte campus that serves as the home court for the Charlotte 49ers basketball 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: Thunderbird Arena Target entity description: Thunderbird Arena is an ice hockey and multi-purpose sports venue located at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
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A.
Thompson Arena
Thompson Arena is an ice hockey venue on the campus of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, known for hosting Dartmouth’s collegiate hockey games and other ice events.
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B.
Central Energy Trust Arena
Central Energy Trust Arena is a major multi-purpose sports and events stadium complex located in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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C.
Selland Arena
Selland Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Fresno, California, known for hosting concerts, sporting events, and large community gatherings.
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D.
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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E.
Dale F. Halton Arena
Dale F. Halton Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports venue on the University of North Carolina at Charlotte campus that serves as the home court for the Charlotte 49ers basketball teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | indoor arena ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of British Columbia ⓘ |
| category |
Indoor ice hockey venues in Canada
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Sports venues in Vancouver ⓘ University sports venues in Canada ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| hasCity | Vancouver ⓘ |
| hasCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| hasPrimarySport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| hasProvinceOrState | British Columbia ⓘ |
| hasSurface | ice ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
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University of British Columbia ⓘ Vancouver ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
UBC Point Grey campus
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linked to:
UBC Vancouver campus
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| namedAfter | UBC Thunderbirds ⓘ |
| operatedBy | University of British Columbia ⓘ |
| ownedBy | University of British Columbia ⓘ |
| partOf |
UBC Thunderbird sports facilities
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linked to:
UBC Thunderbird Park
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| tenant |
UBC Thunderbirds men's ice hockey team
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UBC Thunderbirds women's ice hockey team ⓘ |
| usedFor |
concerts
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figure skating ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ public skating ⓘ sporting events ⓘ university events ⓘ |
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: Thunderbird Arena Description of subject: Thunderbird Arena is an ice hockey and multi-purpose sports venue located at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Thunderbird Arena
linked to: Thunderbird Arena
UBC Athletics and Recreation facilities
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hasFacility
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Protrans Arena (within Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre)
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linked to: Thunderbird Arena