Glass Palace
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Glass Palace was the original name of Portland’s Memorial Coliseum, a mid-20th-century multi-purpose arena notable for its extensive glass exterior walls.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glass Palace canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1299796 — 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: Glass Palace Context triple: [Memorial Coliseum, formerName, Glass Palace]
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A.
Tower of the Sun
The Tower of the Sun is an iconic avant-garde sculpture by artist Tarō Okamoto that served as the symbolic centerpiece of Expo ’70 in Osaka, Japan.
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B.
Room of the Three Windows
The Room of the Three Windows is a notable Inca ceremonial chamber at Machu Picchu, distinguished by its three trapezoidal windows overlooking the Sacred Plaza and the surrounding mountains.
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C.
Summer Palace
The Summer Palace is a vast, historic imperial garden and palace complex in northwest Beijing, renowned for its lakes, temples, and classical Chinese landscape design.
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D.
The Prism Tower
The Prism Tower is a prominent commercial skyscraper in Dubai’s Business Bay district, known for its modern glass façade and office spaces.
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E.
Palace of Earthly Tranquility
The Palace of Earthly Tranquility is a historic hall within Beijing’s Forbidden City that served as the residence and later ceremonial space of Chinese empresses during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
- 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: Glass Palace Target entity description: Glass Palace was the original name of Portland’s Memorial Coliseum, a mid-20th-century multi-purpose arena notable for its extensive glass exterior walls.
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A.
Tower of the Sun
The Tower of the Sun is an iconic avant-garde sculpture by artist Tarō Okamoto that served as the symbolic centerpiece of Expo ’70 in Osaka, Japan.
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B.
Room of the Three Windows
The Room of the Three Windows is a notable Inca ceremonial chamber at Machu Picchu, distinguished by its three trapezoidal windows overlooking the Sacred Plaza and the surrounding mountains.
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C.
Summer Palace
The Summer Palace is a vast, historic imperial garden and palace complex in northwest Beijing, renowned for its lakes, temples, and classical Chinese landscape design.
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D.
The Prism Tower
The Prism Tower is a prominent commercial skyscraper in Dubai’s Business Bay district, known for its modern glass façade and office spaces.
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E.
Palace of Earthly Tranquility
The Palace of Earthly Tranquility is a historic hall within Beijing’s Forbidden City that served as the residence and later ceremonial space of Chinese empresses during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
indoor arena
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multi-purpose arena ⓘ sports arena ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Portland Memorial Coliseum ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Modernist architecture ⓘ |
| category |
indoor basketball venues in Oregon
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indoor ice hockey venues in Oregon ⓘ sports venues in Portland, Oregon ⓘ |
| city | Portland ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| formerNameOf | Memorial Coliseum ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
rectangular bowl within glass shell
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transparent curtain walls ⓘ |
| location |
Portland
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surface form:
Portland, Oregon
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| material |
glass
ⓘ
steel ⓘ |
| notableFor | extensive glass exterior walls ⓘ |
| partOf | Rose Quarter ⓘ |
| significance | iconic example of International Style arena design ⓘ |
| state | Oregon ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| usedFor |
basketball games
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concerts ⓘ conventions ⓘ exhibitions ⓘ ice hockey 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: Glass Palace Description of subject: Glass Palace was the original name of Portland’s Memorial Coliseum, a mid-20th-century multi-purpose arena notable for its extensive glass exterior walls.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.