Spodek arena
E172944
Spodek arena is a distinctive, flying-saucer-shaped multipurpose indoor arena in Katowice, Poland, famous for hosting major sports events, concerts, and esports tournaments.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spodek arena canonical | 3 |
| Spodek arena in Katowice | 1 |
| Spodek sports and entertainment arena | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1517155 — 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: Spodek arena Context triple: [Katowice, knownFor, Spodek arena]
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A.
T-Com Arena
T-Com Arena was the former sponsored name of Bratislava’s main ice hockey and multi-purpose venue now known as Ondrej Nepela Arena.
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B.
Artland Arena
Artland Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and events venue located in Quakenbrück, Germany.
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C.
Viejas Arena
Viejas Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the campus of San Diego State University best known as the primary venue for the university’s major athletic and entertainment events.
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D.
Opole amphitheatre
Opole amphitheatre is a prominent open-air performance venue in Opole, Poland, best known for hosting major music and cultural events.
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E.
Agganis Arena
Agganis Arena is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the home rink of Boston University’s hockey programs.
- 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: Spodek arena Target entity description: Spodek arena is a distinctive, flying-saucer-shaped multipurpose indoor arena in Katowice, Poland, famous for hosting major sports events, concerts, and esports tournaments.
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A.
T-Com Arena
T-Com Arena was the former sponsored name of Bratislava’s main ice hockey and multi-purpose venue now known as Ondrej Nepela Arena.
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B.
Artland Arena
Artland Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and events venue located in Quakenbrück, Germany.
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C.
Viejas Arena
Viejas Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the campus of San Diego State University best known as the primary venue for the university’s major athletic and entertainment events.
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D.
Opole amphitheatre
Opole amphitheatre is a prominent open-air performance venue in Opole, Poland, best known for hosting major music and cultural events.
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E.
Agganis Arena
Agganis Arena is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the home rink of Boston University’s hockey programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concert hall
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indoor arena ⓘ landmark building ⓘ multipurpose arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
futurist architecture
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modernist architecture ⓘ |
| cityLandmarkOf | Katowice ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Poland ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLocation | 50.266°N 19.024°E ⓘ |
| hasHostedEvent |
Intel Extreme Masters esports tournaments
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surface form:
Intel Extreme Masters Katowice
World Championship in League of Legends events in Katowice ⓘ international volleyball tournaments ⓘ major ice hockey matches ⓘ |
| hasPart |
hotel
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ice rink ⓘ office building ⓘ parking lot ⓘ sports hall ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://spodekkatowice.pl/ ⓘ |
| inception | 1971 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Katowice ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Silesian Voivodeship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnStreet | Aleja Korfantego ⓘ |
| maximumCapacity | 12000 ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | saucer ⓘ |
| nativeName | Spodek ⓘ |
| nativeNameLanguage | Polish ⓘ |
| nickname | Spodek arena self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive flying-saucer-shaped roof
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international esports events ⓘ large music concerts ⓘ major sports events ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1971-05-09 ⓘ |
| operator |
Katowice
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surface form:
Katowice city authorities
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| ownedBy |
Katowice
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surface form:
City of Katowice
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| seatingCapacity | 11000 ⓘ |
| shape | flying saucer ⓘ |
| usedFor |
basketball
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concerts ⓘ conferences ⓘ cultural events ⓘ esports tournaments ⓘ handball ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ trade fairs ⓘ volleyball ⓘ |
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: Spodek arena Description of subject: Spodek arena is a distinctive, flying-saucer-shaped multipurpose indoor arena in Katowice, Poland, famous for hosting major sports events, concerts, and esports tournaments.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Spodek sports and entertainment arena
subject surface form:
Spodek
this entity surface form:
Spodek arena in Katowice