The Big O
E105905
The Big O is Montreal’s distinctive, oval-shaped Olympic Stadium, best known for its massive concrete structure and once-ambitious inclined tower.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Big O canonical | 3 |
| The Big Owe | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T891338 — 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: The Big O Context triple: [Olympic Stadium (Montreal), nickname, The Big O]
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A.
The Big O
The Big O is a popular nickname for the city of Omaha, Nebraska, often used to evoke its energetic urban character and regional significance.
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B.
Point Omega
Point Omega is a short, meditative novel by Don DeLillo that explores themes of time, war, and consciousness through the encounter between a reclusive war theorist and a young filmmaker in the desert.
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C.
The Box
The Box is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spaceship and time machine from the British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
The Other Man
The Other Man is a 2008 psychological thriller film about a husband who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about his wife's secret lover.
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E.
The Eyeopener
The Eyeopener is an independent student-run newspaper serving the Toronto Metropolitan University community with campus news, commentary, and features.
- 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: The Big O Target entity description: The Big O is Montreal’s distinctive, oval-shaped Olympic Stadium, best known for its massive concrete structure and once-ambitious inclined tower.
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A.
The Big O
The Big O is a popular nickname for the city of Omaha, Nebraska, often used to evoke its energetic urban character and regional significance.
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B.
Point Omega
Point Omega is a short, meditative novel by Don DeLillo that explores themes of time, war, and consciousness through the encounter between a reclusive war theorist and a young filmmaker in the desert.
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C.
The Box
The Box is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spaceship and time machine from the British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
The Other Man
The Other Man is a 2008 psychological thriller film about a husband who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about his wife's secret lover.
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E.
The Eyeopener
The Eyeopener is an independent student-run newspaper serving the Toronto Metropolitan University community with campus news, commentary, and features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic stadium
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landmark ⓘ sports venue ⓘ stadium ⓘ |
| architect |
Luc Durand
ⓘ
Roger Taillibert ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Modernist architecture ⓘ |
| capacity | approximately 56,000 ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1976 ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1973 ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 45.5596°N 73.5519°W ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| formerHomeVenueOf |
Montreal Alouettes
ⓘ
Washington Nationals ⓘ
surface form:
Montreal Expos
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| hasPart |
Montreal Tower
ⓘ
athletics track (original Olympic configuration) ⓘ baseball field (later configuration) ⓘ retractable roof structure ⓘ |
| inception | 1970 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Montreal ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Quebec, Canada
ⓘ
surface form:
Quebec
|
| locatedInNeighborhood |
Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
ⓘ
surface form:
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
|
| materialUsed | reinforced concrete ⓘ |
| nickname |
The Big O
self-link
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The Big O self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Big Owe
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| notableFor |
cost overruns and maintenance issues
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distinctive oval shape ⓘ massive concrete structure ⓘ |
| officialName | Olympic Stadium ⓘ |
| opened | 1976 ⓘ |
| openedForEvent | 1976 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| operator |
Société de développement et de mise en valeur du Parc olympique
ⓘ
surface form:
Parc Olympique (Régie des installations olympiques)
|
| owner | Government of Quebec ⓘ |
| partOf |
Stade olympique de Montréal
ⓘ
surface form:
Olympic Park, Montreal
|
| primaryUse | multi-purpose stadium ⓘ |
| roofStatus | often inoperable and problematic ⓘ |
| roofType | retractable (original design) ⓘ |
| shape | oval ⓘ |
| towerClaim | one of the tallest inclined towers in the world ⓘ |
| towerFeature | inclined tower ⓘ |
| towerHeight | approximately 165 metres ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Canadian football games
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Olympic athletics events ⓘ Olympic closing ceremony ⓘ Olympic opening ceremony ⓘ baseball games ⓘ concerts ⓘ soccer matches ⓘ trade shows and exhibitions ⓘ |
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: The Big O Description of subject: The Big O is Montreal’s distinctive, oval-shaped Olympic Stadium, best known for its massive concrete structure and once-ambitious inclined tower.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Olympic Stadium (Montreal)
subject surface form:
Olympic Stadium (Montreal)
this entity surface form:
The Big Owe
this entity surface form:
The Big Owe