Briggs Stadium
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Briggs Stadium was a historic Major League Baseball park in Detroit, best known as the longtime home of the Detroit Tigers before it was renamed Tiger Stadium.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Briggs Stadium canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T782604 — 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: Briggs Stadium Context triple: [Detroit Tigers, formerHomeBallpark, Briggs Stadium]
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Rice Stadium
Rice Stadium is a historic outdoor football stadium in Houston, Texas, best known as the longtime home of Rice University’s football team and as the site of President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 “Moon speech.”
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Nickerson Field
Nickerson Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, now primarily used by Boston University athletics and formerly an early home venue for the New England Patriots (then Boston Patriots).
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Schaefer Stadium
Schaefer Stadium was an outdoor football stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of the New England Patriots before the construction of Gillette Stadium.
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Autzen Stadium
Autzen Stadium is the University of Oregon’s outdoor football stadium in Eugene, renowned for its loud game-day atmosphere and as the home field of the Oregon Ducks.
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E.
McDonald Jones Stadium
McDonald Jones Stadium is a major multi-purpose sports venue in Newcastle, New South Wales, best known as the home ground of the Newcastle Knights (NRL) and Newcastle Jets (A-League).
- 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: Briggs Stadium Target entity description: Briggs Stadium was a historic Major League Baseball park in Detroit, best known as the longtime home of the Detroit Tigers before it was renamed Tiger Stadium.
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A.
Rice Stadium
Rice Stadium is a historic outdoor football stadium in Houston, Texas, best known as the longtime home of Rice University’s football team and as the site of President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 “Moon speech.”
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B.
Nickerson Field
Nickerson Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, now primarily used by Boston University athletics and formerly an early home venue for the New England Patriots (then Boston Patriots).
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C.
Schaefer Stadium
Schaefer Stadium was an outdoor football stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of the New England Patriots before the construction of Gillette Stadium.
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D.
Autzen Stadium
Autzen Stadium is the University of Oregon’s outdoor football stadium in Eugene, renowned for its loud game-day atmosphere and as the home field of the Oregon Ducks.
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E.
McDonald Jones Stadium
McDonald Jones Stadium is a major multi-purpose sports venue in Newcastle, New South Wales, best known as the home ground of the Newcastle Knights (NRL) and Newcastle Jets (A-League).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball stadium
ⓘ
sports venue ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Navin Field
ⓘ
Tiger Stadium ⓘ |
| architecturalType | steel-and-concrete ballpark ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor | longtime home of the Detroit Tigers ⓘ |
| capacityType | seated spectators ⓘ |
| category |
Baseball venues in Michigan
ⓘ
Defunct Major League Baseball venues ⓘ Sports venues in Detroit ⓘ |
| city | Detroit ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | 20th-century baseball stadiums ⓘ |
| formerName | Navin Field ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Tiger Stadium ⓘ |
| historicDesignation | historic Major League Baseball park ⓘ |
| homeTeam | Detroit Tigers ⓘ |
| laterNameOf | Briggs Stadium self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| league | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| locatedInNeighborhood | Corktown ⓘ |
| location |
Detroit
ⓘ
Michigan ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| namedAfter | Walter O. Briggs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
double-decked grandstands
ⓘ
historic baseball events ⓘ intimate sightlines ⓘ |
| notableUse |
Detroit Tigers home games
ⓘ
Major League Baseball games ⓘ |
| openedAs | Navin Field ⓘ |
| owner | Walter O. Briggs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Major League Baseball venues in Detroit ⓘ |
| predecessor | Navin Field ⓘ |
| primaryUse | professional baseball ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| status | demolished ⓘ |
| successorName | Tiger Stadium ⓘ |
| surface | natural grass ⓘ |
| tenant | Detroit Tigers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
All-Star Games
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World Series ⓘ
surface form:
World Series games
|
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: Briggs Stadium Description of subject: Briggs Stadium was a historic Major League Baseball park in Detroit, best known as the longtime home of the Detroit Tigers before it was renamed Tiger Stadium.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tiger Stadium