Cobo Center
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Cobo Center is a major convention and exhibition venue in downtown Detroit, Michigan, best known for hosting large-scale events including the North American International Auto Show.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cobo Center canonical | 9 |
| Cobo Hall | 6 |
| Cobo Arena | 3 |
| Cobo Conference/Exhibition Center | 1 |
| Cobo Hall, Detroit | 1 |
| Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T694468 — 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: Cobo Center Context triple: [North American International Auto Show, locatedIn, Cobo Center]
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A.
Van Andel Arena
Van Andel Arena is a major multi-purpose indoor venue in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, best known as the primary ice hockey arena and event center for the region.
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B.
McCormick Place
McCormick Place is a massive convention center complex in Chicago and one of the largest and most prominent exhibition facilities in North America.
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C.
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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D.
Nynex Arena
Nynex Arena was the original name of the large indoor entertainment and sports venue now known as Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.
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E.
Renaissance Center
The Renaissance Center is a prominent complex of interconnected skyscrapers on Detroit's riverfront that serves as a major commercial, hotel, and office hub and a symbol of the city's downtown revitalization.
- 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: Cobo Center Target entity description: Cobo Center is a major convention and exhibition venue in downtown Detroit, Michigan, best known for hosting large-scale events including the North American International Auto Show.
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A.
Van Andel Arena
Van Andel Arena is a major multi-purpose indoor venue in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, best known as the primary ice hockey arena and event center for the region.
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B.
McCormick Place
McCormick Place is a massive convention center complex in Chicago and one of the largest and most prominent exhibition facilities in North America.
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C.
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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D.
Nynex Arena
Nynex Arena was the original name of the large indoor entertainment and sports venue now known as Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.
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E.
Renaissance Center
The Renaissance Center is a prominent complex of interconnected skyscrapers on Detroit's riverfront that serves as a major commercial, hotel, and office hub and a symbol of the city's downtown revitalization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
convention center
ⓘ
exhibition hall ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Detroit River
ⓘ
Joe Louis Arena (historically) ⓘ
linked to:
Joe Louis Arena
|
| category |
Buildings and structures in Detroit
ⓘ
Convention centers in Michigan ⓘ Tourist attractions in Detroit ⓘ |
| city | Detroit ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1955 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| exhibitSpace | approximately 700,000 square feet ⓘ |
| floorArea | approximately 2,400,000 square feet ⓘ |
| formerName |
Cobo Hall
ⓘ
linked to:
Cobo Center
|
| function |
conventions
ⓘ
exhibitions ⓘ meetings ⓘ special events ⓘ trade shows ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
ballroom
ⓘ
large exhibition halls ⓘ meeting rooms ⓘ riverfront views ⓘ |
| hasStation | Cobo Center station (Detroit People Mover) ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
Detroit Autorama
ⓘ
North American International Auto Show ⓘ Youmacon ⓘ |
| knownFor | North American International Auto Show ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
downtown Detroit
ⓘ
linked to:
Downtown Detroit
|
| location |
Detroit, Michigan, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Detroit
|
| namedAfter |
Albert Cobo
ⓘ
Albert E. Cobo ⓘ |
| near |
GM Renaissance Center
ⓘ
linked to:
Renaissance Center
Hart Plaza ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1960 ⓘ |
| operator | Detroit Regional Convention Facility Authority ⓘ |
| owner |
City of Detroit
ⓘ
linked to:
Detroit
|
| publicTransit | Detroit People Mover ⓘ |
| regionServed | Metro Detroit ⓘ |
| renovation | major renovation completed in the 2010s ⓘ |
| renovationCost | approximately $279 million ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan (most of state)
|
| website | https://www.cobocenter.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: Cobo Center Description of subject: Cobo Center is a major convention and exhibition venue in downtown Detroit, Michigan, best known for hosting large-scale events including the North American International Auto Show.
Referenced by (21)
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