Meridian Centre
E24695
Meridian Centre is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown St. Catharines, Ontario, primarily used for ice hockey, concerts, and other large events.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meridian Centre canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T175056 — 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: Meridian Centre Context triple: [Ontario, containsLandmark, Meridian Centre]
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A.
Queen's Centre
Queen's Centre is a major athletics, recreation, and student life complex at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
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B.
Kingdom Shopping Centre
Kingdom Shopping Centre is a major retail complex in Glenrothes, Scotland, featuring a range of shops, services, and amenities for local residents and visitors.
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C.
Central Square
Central Square is a vibrant commercial and cultural district in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its diverse restaurants, nightlife, music venues, and arts scene.
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D.
Brooks Building
The Brooks Building is a key teaching and learning facility of Manchester Metropolitan University, known for housing education and health-related disciplines in modern, sustainable spaces.
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E.
Water Tower Place
Water Tower Place is a major mixed-use skyscraper and shopping complex in Chicago, known for its prominent location along the city’s Magnificent Mile.
- 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: Meridian Centre Target entity description: Meridian Centre is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown St. Catharines, Ontario, primarily used for ice hockey, concerts, and other large events.
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A.
Queen's Centre
Queen's Centre is a major athletics, recreation, and student life complex at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
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B.
Kingdom Shopping Centre
Kingdom Shopping Centre is a major retail complex in Glenrothes, Scotland, featuring a range of shops, services, and amenities for local residents and visitors.
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C.
Central Square
Central Square is a vibrant commercial and cultural district in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its diverse restaurants, nightlife, music venues, and arts scene.
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D.
Brooks Building
The Brooks Building is a key teaching and learning facility of Manchester Metropolitan University, known for housing education and health-related disciplines in modern, sustainable spaces.
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E.
Water Tower Place
Water Tower Place is a major mixed-use skyscraper and shopping complex in Chicago, known for its prominent location along the city’s Magnificent Mile.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
indoor arena
ⓘ
multi-purpose arena ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in St. Catharines
ⓘ
Indoor ice hockey venue in Canada ⓘ Sports venue in Ontario ⓘ |
| city | St. Catharines ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| hasEventType |
community events
ⓘ
family shows ⓘ trade shows ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
club seating
ⓘ
concession stands ⓘ locker rooms ⓘ private suites ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
concert venue
ⓘ
event venue ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| hasScoreboard | center-hung scoreboard ⓘ |
| hasSurface | ice ⓘ |
| hasTenant | Niagara IceDogs ⓘ |
| indoorOutdoor | indoor ⓘ |
| leagueHosted | Ontario Hockey League ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
St. Catharines
ⓘ
surface form:
downtown St. Catharines
|
| location |
Canada
ⓘ
Ontario ⓘ St. Catharines ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Meridian Credit Union ⓘ |
| opened | 2014 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 2014-10-01 ⓘ |
| operator | Spectra Experiences ⓘ |
| owner |
St. Catharines
ⓘ
surface form:
City of St. Catharines
|
| primaryUse | ice hockey ⓘ |
| province | Ontario ⓘ |
| publicTransitAccess | St. Catharines Transit Commission ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity |
about 5000 for hockey
ⓘ
about 6000 for concerts ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| use |
concerts
ⓘ
large events ⓘ |
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: Meridian Centre Description of subject: Meridian Centre is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown St. Catharines, Ontario, primarily used for ice hockey, concerts, and other large events.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.