California Memorial Stadium
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California Memorial Stadium is the historic on-campus football stadium of the University of California, Berkeley, known as the home of the California Golden Bears.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T76798 — 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: California Memorial Stadium Context triple: [Oski the Bear, associatedWith, California Memorial Stadium]
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A.
Schaefer Stadium
Schaefer Stadium was an outdoor football stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of the New England Patriots before the construction of Gillette Stadium.
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B.
Arrowhead Stadium
Arrowhead Stadium is a major outdoor football stadium best known as the home of the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs and for its exceptionally loud game-day atmosphere.
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C.
Haas Pavilion
Haas Pavilion is an indoor sports arena on the University of California, Berkeley campus that primarily hosts the Golden Bears’ basketball and other athletic events.
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D.
Reser Stadium
Reser Stadium is the primary football stadium and home field of the Oregon State Beavers in Corvallis, Oregon.
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E.
Nickerson Field
Nickerson Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, now primarily used by Boston University athletics and formerly an early home venue for the New England Patriots (then Boston Patriots).
- 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: California Memorial Stadium Target entity description: California Memorial Stadium is the historic on-campus football stadium of the University of California, Berkeley, known as the home of the California Golden Bears.
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A.
Schaefer Stadium
Schaefer Stadium was an outdoor football stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of the New England Patriots before the construction of Gillette Stadium.
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B.
Arrowhead Stadium
Arrowhead Stadium is a major outdoor football stadium best known as the home of the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs and for its exceptionally loud game-day atmosphere.
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C.
Haas Pavilion
Haas Pavilion is an indoor sports arena on the University of California, Berkeley campus that primarily hosts the Golden Bears’ basketball and other athletic events.
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D.
Reser Stadium
Reser Stadium is the primary football stadium and home field of the Oregon State Beavers in Corvallis, Oregon.
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E.
Nickerson Field
Nickerson Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, now primarily used by Boston University athletics and formerly an early home venue for the New England Patriots (then Boston Patriots).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college football stadium
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memorial ⓘ outdoor sports venue ⓘ |
| architect | John Galen Howard ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| builtNear | Hayward Fault ⓘ |
| builtOn | Berkeley Hills ⓘ |
| city | Berkeley ⓘ |
| commemorates | fallen service members from the University of California ⓘ |
| conference | Pac-12 Conference ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| hasEventType | rivalry games against Stanford (Big Game) ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
press box on the west side
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student section known as The Bench ⓘ tight bowl configuration ⓘ views of the San Francisco Bay ⓘ |
| hasFieldOrientation | north–south ⓘ |
| hasNickname |
Cal Memorial Stadium
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Memorial Stadium ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransitAccess | served by AC Transit ⓘ |
| hasRenovationGoal |
improve seismic safety
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modernize athletic facilities ⓘ upgrade fan amenities ⓘ |
| hasScoreboard | video scoreboard ⓘ |
| hasStructuralDesign | seismically retrofitted structure ⓘ |
| homeStadiumOf |
California Golden Bears football
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surface form:
California Golden Bears football team
|
| isOutdoor | true ⓘ |
| league |
Football Bowl Subdivision
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surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
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| locatedIn |
Berkeley
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surface form:
Berkeley, California
|
| locatedOnCampusOf | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| namedFor | University of California students and alumni killed in World War I ⓘ |
| nearbyInstitution | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ⓘ |
| nearbyLandmark |
California Memorial Stadium
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
California Memorial Stadium East Rim hiking area
Strawberry Canyon ⓘ |
| opened | 1923 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| ownedBy | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| partOf | UC Berkeley athletics facilities ⓘ |
| primaryTenant |
California Golden Bears football
ⓘ
surface form:
California Golden Bears
|
| renovated | 2010–2012 ⓘ |
| reopenedAfterRenovation | 2012 ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity | approximately 63,000 ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| surfaceType | natural grass ⓘ |
| usedFor |
NCAA college football games
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concerts ⓘ special events ⓘ university commencement ceremonies ⓘ |
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: California Memorial Stadium Description of subject: California Memorial Stadium is the historic on-campus football stadium of the University of California, Berkeley, known as the home of the California Golden Bears.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
California Memorial Stadium sports complex
California Memorial Stadium
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nearbyLandmark
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California Memorial Stadium
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
California Memorial Stadium East Rim hiking area
subject surface form:
The Play (1982 college football)
subject surface form:
John Galen Howard
this entity surface form:
California Memorial Stadium, University of California, Berkeley
this entity surface form:
California Memorial Stadium–Edwards Stadium athletic complex