Arthur M. Wirtz
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Arthur M. Wirtz was an American businessman and sports executive best known for building a major empire in arena management and professional hockey ownership, including the Chicago Blackhawks.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arthur Wirtz | 3 |
| Arthur M. Wirtz canonical | 2 |
| Arthur Michael Wirtz | 1 |
| Bill Wirtz | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1578715 — 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: Arthur M. Wirtz Context triple: [Wirtz Corporation, foundedBy, Arthur M. Wirtz]
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A.
Albert Warner
Albert Warner was an American film executive and one of the four Warner brothers who co-founded the major Hollywood studio Warner Bros.
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B.
George Strauss
George Strauss was a British Labour politician who served for many years as a Member of Parliament and held senior government roles in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Sidney Sheinberg
Sidney Sheinberg was an influential American entertainment executive best known for his long tenure as president and COO of MCA/Universal Studios and for helping launch the career of director Steven Spielberg.
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D.
Louis B. Mayer
Louis B. Mayer was a powerful Hollywood film producer and studio executive who co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and became one of the most influential figures of the studio era.
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E.
Maurice Podoloff
Maurice Podoloff was an American sports executive best known as the first commissioner of the NBA, where he oversaw the league’s formation and early development.
- 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: Arthur M. Wirtz Target entity description: Arthur M. Wirtz was an American businessman and sports executive best known for building a major empire in arena management and professional hockey ownership, including the Chicago Blackhawks.
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A.
Albert Warner
Albert Warner was an American film executive and one of the four Warner brothers who co-founded the major Hollywood studio Warner Bros.
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B.
George Strauss
George Strauss was a British Labour politician who served for many years as a Member of Parliament and held senior government roles in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Sidney Sheinberg
Sidney Sheinberg was an influential American entertainment executive best known for his long tenure as president and COO of MCA/Universal Studios and for helping launch the career of director Steven Spielberg.
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D.
Louis B. Mayer
Louis B. Mayer was a powerful Hollywood film producer and studio executive who co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and became one of the most influential figures of the studio era.
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E.
Maurice Podoloff
Maurice Podoloff was an American sports executive best known as the first commissioner of the NBA, where he oversaw the league’s formation and early development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
human ⓘ ice hockey executive ⓘ sports executive ⓘ |
| businessPartner |
Bill Wirtz
ⓘ
James E. Norris ⓘ
surface form:
James D. Norris
|
| child | Bill Wirtz ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Wirtz Corporation ⓘ |
| familyName | Wirtz ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
arena management
ⓘ
professional ice hockey ⓘ sports management ⓘ |
| fullName |
Arthur M. Wirtz
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Arthur Michael Wirtz
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| givenName | Arthur ⓘ |
| hasRole |
arena landlord
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sports promoter ⓘ team owner ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment
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real estate ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| influenced |
business structure of NHL team ownership
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development of modern arena management practices ⓘ |
| memberOf |
NHL Board of Governors
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surface form:
National Hockey League board of governors
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| notableFor |
building a major arena management empire
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development of Chicago Stadium interests ⓘ ownership of the Chicago Blackhawks ⓘ ownership stakes in multiple professional sports teams ⓘ |
| notableWork | expansion of Wirtz Corporation sports holdings ⓘ |
| occupation |
arena operator
ⓘ
businessman ⓘ ice hockey executive ⓘ real estate investor ⓘ sports executive ⓘ |
| owned |
Chicago Blackhawks
ⓘ
Chicago Stadium ⓘ interests in Detroit Olympia Stadium ⓘ interests in Madison Square Garden (New York) ⓘ interests in St. Louis Arena ⓘ interests in other North American arenas ⓘ |
| partOf | Wirtz family business dynasty ⓘ |
| placeOfBusiness | Chicago ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
co-owner of Chicago Stadium
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owner of the Chicago Blackhawks ⓘ president of Wirtz Corporation ⓘ |
| relative | Bill Wirtz ⓘ |
| residence | Chicago ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Arthur M. Wirtz Description of subject: Arthur M. Wirtz was an American businessman and sports executive best known for building a major empire in arena management and professional hockey ownership, including the Chicago Blackhawks.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bill Wirtz
this entity surface form:
Arthur Wirtz
this entity surface form:
Arthur Wirtz
subject surface form:
Rocky Wirtz
this entity surface form:
Arthur Wirtz
this entity surface form:
Arthur Michael Wirtz