Silverdome

E171133

defunct sports venue multi-purpose stadium stadium

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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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Pontiac Silverdome	11
Pontiac Silverdome (former stadium)	1
Silverdome canonical	1

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.