Silverdome

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The Silverdome was a large multi-purpose stadium in Pontiac, Michigan, best known as the former home of the NFL's Detroit Lions and host to major sporting and entertainment events.

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Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf defunct sports venue
multi-purpose stadium
stadium
alsoKnownAs Silverdome
surface form: Pontiac Silverdome
architecturalStyle domed stadium
city Pontiac
closed 2013
constructionStartDate 1973
country United States of America
surface form: United States
demolished 2018
demolitionStartDate 2017
distanceFromDetroit approximately 30 miles north of downtown Detroit
formerHomeLeague National Football League
formerHomeTeam Detroit Lions
formerName Pontiac Metropolitan Stadium (planning phase)
hostedConcert Led Zeppelin concerts
Michael Jackson concerts
Pink Floyd
surface form: Pink Floyd concerts

The Rolling Stones concerts
U2 concerts
hostedEvent FIFA World Cup 1994 matches
NBA games for Detroit Pistons (temporary)
Super Bowl XVI
WrestleMania III
hostedLeague National Football League games
hostedPromotion World Wrestling Federation events
hostedSport American football
association football (soccer)
basketball
motorsports (indoor)
hostedTeam Detroit Lions home games
location Pontiac, Michigan
notableRecord site of one of the largest indoor crowds for a wrestling event (WrestleMania III)
opened 1975
owner Pontiac, Michigan
surface form: City of Pontiac (historical)
region Oakland County, Michigan NERFINISHED
roofType air-supported dome
seatingCapacity 80000+
seatingCapacityAmericanFootball around 80000
seatingCapacityConcerts over 90000
state Michigan (most of state)
surface form: Michigan
surfaceType artificial turf (various eras)
tenant Detroit Lions
surface form: Detroit Lions (1975–2001)

Detroit Pistons
surface form: Detroit Pistons (part of late 1970s–1980s)

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: Silverdome
Description of subject: The Silverdome was a large multi-purpose stadium in Pontiac, Michigan, best known as the former home of the NFL's Detroit Lions and host to major sporting and entertainment events.

Referenced by (13)

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

Detroit Pistons previousArena Silverdome
Detroit Lions formerHomeStadium Silverdome
this entity surface form: Pontiac Silverdome
Pontiac, Michigan formerHomeOf Silverdome
this entity surface form: Pontiac Silverdome
Pontiac, Michigan contains Silverdome
this entity surface form: Pontiac Silverdome
Chicago Bears–Detroit Lions rivalry formerVenueTeam2Home Silverdome
this entity surface form: Pontiac Silverdome
Pontiac notableStructure Silverdome
this entity surface form: Pontiac Silverdome (former stadium)
Super Bowl XVI stadium Silverdome
this entity surface form: Pontiac Silverdome
Silverdome alsoKnownAs Silverdome
this entity surface form: Pontiac Silverdome
The Palace of Auburn Hills replacedVenueForTeam Silverdome
this entity surface form: Pontiac Silverdome
The Palace of Auburn Hills precededByHomeArena Silverdome
this entity surface form: Pontiac Silverdome
Los Angeles Lakers vs. Detroit Pistons location Silverdome
subject surface form: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Detroit Pistons (1988 NBA Finals)
this entity surface form: Pontiac Silverdome
Michigan Panthers originalHomeStadium Silverdome
this entity surface form: Pontiac Silverdome
WrestleMania III venue Silverdome
this entity surface form: Pontiac Silverdome