Foxboro Stadium
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Foxboro Stadium was a former outdoor sports venue in Foxborough, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of the NFL’s New England Patriots before it was replaced by Gillette Stadium.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Foxboro Stadium canonical | 15 |
| Foxboro Stadium (as Patriots home) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7721 — 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: Foxboro Stadium Context triple: [New England Patriots, formerHomeStadium, Foxboro Stadium]
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A.
Gillette Stadium
Gillette Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue in Foxborough, Massachusetts, best known as the home field of the NFL’s New England Patriots and MLS’s New England Revolution.
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B.
Soldier Field
Soldier Field is a historic outdoor stadium in Chicago best known as the longtime home of the NFL’s Chicago Bears and a prominent venue for major sports and entertainment events.
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C.
Reser Stadium
Reser Stadium is the primary football stadium and home field of the Oregon State Beavers in Corvallis, Oregon.
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D.
Fenway Park
Fenway Park is a historic Major League Baseball stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, renowned as one of the oldest and most iconic ballparks in the United States.
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E.
Everett Memorial Stadium
Everett Memorial Stadium is a multi-purpose athletic venue in Everett, Massachusetts, primarily used for local high school football and other community sporting 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: Foxboro Stadium Target entity description: Foxboro Stadium was a former outdoor sports venue in Foxborough, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of the NFL’s New England Patriots before it was replaced by Gillette Stadium.
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A.
Gillette Stadium
Gillette Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue in Foxborough, Massachusetts, best known as the home field of the NFL’s New England Patriots and MLS’s New England Revolution.
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B.
Soldier Field
Soldier Field is a historic outdoor stadium in Chicago best known as the longtime home of the NFL’s Chicago Bears and a prominent venue for major sports and entertainment events.
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C.
Reser Stadium
Reser Stadium is the primary football stadium and home field of the Oregon State Beavers in Corvallis, Oregon.
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D.
Fenway Park
Fenway Park is a historic Major League Baseball stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, renowned as one of the oldest and most iconic ballparks in the United States.
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E.
Everett Memorial Stadium
Everett Memorial Stadium is a multi-purpose athletic venue in Everett, Massachusetts, primarily used for local high school football and other community sporting events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football venue
ⓘ
defunct sports venue ⓘ stadium ⓘ |
| architectureType | open-air stadium ⓘ |
| capacityApprox | 60000 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| demolished | 2002 ⓘ |
| demolitionReason |
obsolete facilities
ⓘ
replacement by modern stadium ⓘ |
| fieldOrientation | north–south ⓘ |
| formerName |
Schaefer Stadium
ⓘ
Sullivan Stadium ⓘ
linked to:
Schaefer Stadium
|
| hasScoreboardType | end-zone scoreboard ⓘ |
| homeVenueOf |
New England Patriots
ⓘ
New England Revolution ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
AFC Championship Games
ⓘ
linked to:
AFC Championship Game
NFL playoff games ⓘ college football games ⓘ high school football games ⓘ international soccer matches ⓘ |
| leagueHosted |
Major League Soccer
ⓘ
National Football League ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Foxborough, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Greater Boston ⓘ Massachusetts ⓘ New England ⓘ Norfolk County, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Schaefer Brewing Company
ⓘ
Sullivan family ⓘ |
| nearbyFacility |
Patriot Place (later development on adjacent land)
ⓘ
linked to:
Patriot Place
|
| nearbyRoad | U.S. Route 1 ⓘ |
| notableFor | longtime home of the New England Patriots ⓘ |
| opened | 1971 ⓘ |
| otherUse |
association football
ⓘ
concerts ⓘ |
| ownerDuringNFLEra | New England Patriots ownership ⓘ |
| parkingType | surface parking lots ⓘ |
| primaryUse | American football ⓘ |
| region | Northeastern United States ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Gillette Stadium ⓘ |
| replacedEarlierVenue | Alumni Stadium (as primary Patriots home) ⓘ |
| servedAs |
home field for New England Patriots from 1971 to 2001
ⓘ
home field for New England Revolution from 1996 to 2001 ⓘ |
| structureType | concrete and metal bleacher stadium ⓘ |
| surface | natural grass ⓘ |
| tenant |
New England Patriots
ⓘ
New England Revolution ⓘ |
| weatherExposure | outdoor ⓘ |
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: Foxboro Stadium Description of subject: Foxboro Stadium was a former outdoor sports venue in Foxborough, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of the NFL’s New England Patriots before it was replaced by Gillette Stadium.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sullivan family
linked to: Foxboro Stadium
subject linked to:
Founders Cup
subject linked to:
Patriots