The Arena
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The Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in St. Louis, Missouri, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s St. Louis Blues before its demolition in 1999.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Arena canonical | 2 |
| The Checkerdome | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2781897 — 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)
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Target entity: The Arena Context triple: [St. Louis Arena, alsoKnownAs, The Arena]
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A.
Arenas
Arenas is a Spanish-origin surname most notably associated with former NBA All-Star basketball player Gilbert Arenas.
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B.
Arena 2000
Arena 2000 is a modern multi-purpose indoor ice hockey arena in Yaroslavl, Russia, best known as the home venue of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey club.
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C.
First Arena
First Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in downtown Elmira, New York, best known as the home rink for local ice hockey and community events.
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D.
Angel of the Winds Arena
Angel of the Winds Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue located in Everett, Washington.
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E.
Arena
Arena is a surname most prominently associated with Bruce Arena, a highly successful American soccer coach and former manager of the United States men's national team.
- 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: The Arena Target entity description: The Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in St. Louis, Missouri, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s St. Louis Blues before its demolition in 1999.
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A.
Arenas
Arenas is a Spanish-origin surname most notably associated with former NBA All-Star basketball player Gilbert Arenas.
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B.
Arena 2000
Arena 2000 is a modern multi-purpose indoor ice hockey arena in Yaroslavl, Russia, best known as the home venue of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey club.
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C.
First Arena
First Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in downtown Elmira, New York, best known as the home rink for local ice hockey and community events.
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D.
Angel of the Winds Arena
Angel of the Winds Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue located in Everett, Washington.
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E.
Arena
Arena is a surname most prominently associated with Bruce Arena, a highly successful American soccer coach and former manager of the United States men's national team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
demolished building
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entertainment venue ⓘ indoor sports arena ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
St. Louis Arena
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The Barn ⓘ The Arena ⓘ
surface form:
The Checkerdome
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| architecturalStyle | early 20th-century arena design ⓘ |
| bestKnownAs | longtime home of the NHL’s St. Louis Blues ⓘ |
| category |
defunct National Hockey League venues
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defunct indoor arenas in the United States ⓘ demolished sports venues in Missouri ⓘ sports venues in St. Louis ⓘ |
| cityServed | St. Louis metropolitan area ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 38.632°N 90.283°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| demolished | 1999 ⓘ |
| demolitionEndDate | 1999 ⓘ |
| demolitionStartDate | 1999 ⓘ |
| formerName | Checkerdome ⓘ |
| formerNamePeriod | late 1970s–early 1980s ⓘ |
| heritage | considered a landmark by many St. Louis sports fans ⓘ |
| historicDesignation | historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in St. Louis ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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surface form:
St. Louis, Missouri
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| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Missouri ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | 1929–1999 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive domed roof and interior wooden roof trusses
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intense and loud game atmosphere ⓘ |
| opened | 1929 ⓘ |
| openedAs | The Arena ⓘ |
| primaryTenant | St. Louis Blues ⓘ |
| reasonForDemolition | age and structural/functional obsolescence ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Kiel Center ⓘ |
| status | demolished ⓘ |
| successorVenue | Enterprise Center ⓘ |
| surfaceType | multi-purpose floor with removable ice surface ⓘ |
| tenantLeague | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| tenantSport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| usedFor |
basketball games
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circus events ⓘ concerts ⓘ conventions ⓘ ice hockey games ⓘ indoor soccer matches ⓘ professional wrestling events ⓘ |
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: The Arena Description of subject: The Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in St. Louis, Missouri, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s St. Louis Blues before its demolition in 1999.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Checkerdome
subject surface form:
St. Louis Arena