XL Center Arena
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XL Center Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue located in downtown Hartford, Connecticut.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| XL Center Arena canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1570312 — 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: XL Center Arena Context triple: [XL Center, hasAlternateName, XL Center Arena]
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A.
Uline Arena
Uline Arena is a historic indoor venue in Washington, D.C., best known for hosting early professional basketball games and notable cultural events, including The Beatles’ first U.S. concert.
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B.
Wintrust Arena
Wintrust Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in Chicago that serves as the home court for DePaul University basketball and hosts concerts, conventions, and other large events.
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C.
Gateway Center Arena
Gateway Center Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue located in College Park, Georgia.
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D.
Nynex Arena
Nynex Arena was the original name of the large indoor entertainment and sports venue now known as Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.
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E.
Comerica Center
Comerica Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Frisco, Texas, known for hosting professional hockey, basketball, concerts, and community events.
- 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: XL Center Arena Target entity description: XL Center Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue located in downtown Hartford, Connecticut.
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A.
Uline Arena
Uline Arena is a historic indoor venue in Washington, D.C., best known for hosting early professional basketball games and notable cultural events, including The Beatles’ first U.S. concert.
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B.
Wintrust Arena
Wintrust Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in Chicago that serves as the home court for DePaul University basketball and hosts concerts, conventions, and other large events.
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C.
Gateway Center Arena
Gateway Center Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue located in College Park, Georgia.
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D.
Nynex Arena
Nynex Arena was the original name of the large indoor entertainment and sports venue now known as Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.
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E.
Comerica Center
Comerica Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Frisco, Texas, known for hosting professional hockey, basketball, concerts, and community events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
indoor arena
ⓘ
multi-purpose arena ⓘ |
| category |
Indoor arenas in Connecticut
ⓘ
Music venues in Connecticut ⓘ Sports venues in Hartford, Connecticut ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerName | Hartford Civic Center ⓘ |
| formerTenant |
Hartford Wolf Pack
ⓘ
surface form:
Connecticut Whale (AHL)
New England Whalers ⓘ
surface form:
Hartford Whalers
Hartford Wolf Pack ⓘ New England Whalers ⓘ |
| function |
hosts NCAA basketball tournaments
ⓘ
hosts boxing and mixed martial arts events ⓘ hosts ice shows ⓘ hosts professional wrestling events ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
club seats
ⓘ
concession stands ⓘ locker rooms ⓘ luxury suites ⓘ press facilities ⓘ |
| hasSurface |
basketball court
ⓘ
ice rink ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Downtown Hartford business district
ⓘ
surface form:
Downtown Hartford
|
| location |
Hartford, Connecticut, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Hartford, Connecticut
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| nearbyLandmark |
Bushnell Park
ⓘ
Connecticut State Capitol ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1975-01-09 ⓘ |
| operator | Connecticut Convention & Sports Bureau (through management contracts over time) ⓘ |
| owner |
Hartford
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Hartford
|
| partOf |
Hartford Civic Center
ⓘ
surface form:
Hartford Civic Center complex
|
| primaryUse |
basketball games
ⓘ
concerts ⓘ conventions and trade shows ⓘ family entertainment events ⓘ ice hockey games ⓘ |
| publicTransitAccess | served by CTtransit bus routes ⓘ |
| renovationDate |
1980
ⓘ
2014 ⓘ |
| roofType | enclosed ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity |
approximately 15,000 for ice hockey
ⓘ
approximately 16,000 for basketball ⓘ approximately 16,000 for concerts ⓘ |
| sponsor | XL Group ⓘ |
| state | Connecticut ⓘ |
| tenant |
UConn Huskies men’s basketball (partial home schedule)
ⓘ
UConn Huskies men's ice hockey ⓘ
surface form:
UConn Huskies men’s ice hockey
UConn Huskies women’s basketball (partial home schedule) ⓘ |
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: XL Center Arena Description of subject: XL Center Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue located in downtown Hartford, Connecticut.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.