Richmond Coliseum

E147921

defunct sports venue indoor arena multi-purpose arena

Richmond Coliseum was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Richmond, Virginia, known for hosting professional basketball games, concerts, and large-scale events from the early 1970s until its closure.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Richmond Coliseum canonical	1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	defunct sports venue ⓘ indoor arena ⓘ multi-purpose arena ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Modernist architecture ⓘ
closureDate	2019 ⓘ
constructionStartDate	1969 ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
demolitionPlanned	true ⓘ
hasShape	octagonal ⓘ
hostedEvent	Atlantic 10 Conference men’s basketball tournament games ⓘ Colonial Athletic Association men’s basketball tournament ⓘ NCAA men’s basketball tournament games ⓘ Southern Conference men’s basketball tournament ⓘ WCW events ⓘ WWE events ⓘ major touring concerts ⓘ
inception	1971 ⓘ
leagueOfTenant	American Basketball Association ⓘ American Hockey League ⓘ
locatedIn	Richmond, Virginia ⓘ
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory	Virginia ⓘ surface form: Commonwealth of Virginia
locatedInTimeZone	Eastern Time Zone ⓘ
nearbyLandmark	Richmond Convention Center ⓘ downtown Richmond ⓘ
openingDate	1971 ⓘ
operator	City of Richmond ⓘ
owner	City of Richmond ⓘ
primaryUse	basketball venue ⓘ concert venue ⓘ indoor sports venue ⓘ
publicTransitAccess	GRTC bus service ⓘ
reasonForClosure	age and maintenance costs ⓘ
replacedByProject	Navy Hill redevelopment proposal ⓘ
roofType	domed roof ⓘ
seatingCapacity	13000 ⓘ 13000 (basketball) ⓘ 13000 (concerts, approximate) ⓘ
status	closed ⓘ
tenant	Colonial Athletic Association ⓘ surface form: Colonial Athletic Association men’s basketball tournament Atlanta Gladiators ⓘ surface form: Richmond Renegades Richmond RiverDogs ⓘ Richmond Robins ⓘ Richmond Speed ⓘ Virginia Squires ⓘ
usedFor	college basketball games ⓘ concerts ⓘ conventions ⓘ family shows ⓘ ice hockey games ⓘ large-scale events ⓘ professional basketball games ⓘ professional wrestling events ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Richmond Coliseum
Description of subject: Richmond Coliseum was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Richmond, Virginia, known for hosting professional basketball games, concerts, and large-scale events from the early 1970s until its closure.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Virginia Squires → homeArena → Richmond Coliseum ⓘ