Mecca Temple
E307031
Mecca Temple was a historic New York City performance and meeting hall originally built for the Shriners that later became known as New York City Center.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mecca Temple canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2882193 — 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: Mecca Temple Context triple: [New York City Center, formerName, Mecca Temple]
-
A.
Masjid al-Haram
Masjid al-Haram is the Grand Mosque in Mecca that surrounds the Kaaba and serves as the holiest site in Islam and the focal point of the Hajj pilgrimage.
-
B.
Kabah
Kabah is an ancient Maya archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, noted for its elaborate Puuc-style architecture and richly decorated palace facades.
-
C.
Kaaba
The Kaaba is a cube-shaped building at the center of Islam’s most important mosque in Mecca and the focal point of Muslim prayer and pilgrimage.
-
D.
Masjid Quba
Masjid Quba is an historic mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, revered as the first mosque built in Islam and closely associated with the Prophet Muhammad’s migration (Hijrah).
-
E.
Al-Masjid an-Nabawi
Al-Masjid an-Nabawi is the Prophet Muhammad’s mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, and one of the holiest and most visited sites in Islam.
- 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: Mecca Temple Target entity description: Mecca Temple was a historic New York City performance and meeting hall originally built for the Shriners that later became known as New York City Center.
-
A.
Masjid al-Haram
Masjid al-Haram is the Grand Mosque in Mecca that surrounds the Kaaba and serves as the holiest site in Islam and the focal point of the Hajj pilgrimage.
-
B.
Kabah
Kabah is an ancient Maya archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, noted for its elaborate Puuc-style architecture and richly decorated palace facades.
-
C.
Kaaba
The Kaaba is a cube-shaped building at the center of Islam’s most important mosque in Mecca and the focal point of Muslim prayer and pilgrimage.
-
D.
Masjid Quba
Masjid Quba is an historic mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, revered as the first mosque built in Islam and closely associated with the Prophet Muhammad’s migration (Hijrah).
-
E.
Al-Masjid an-Nabawi
Al-Masjid an-Nabawi is the Prophet Muhammad’s mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, and one of the holiest and most visited sites in Islam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
meeting hall
ⓘ
performance venue ⓘ theater building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Moorish Revival architecture ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasNameInHistory |
Mecca Temple
self-link
ⓘ
New York City Center ⓘ |
| hasUse |
concert venue
ⓘ
meeting hall ⓘ performance hall ⓘ theater ⓘ |
| heritage | historic building ⓘ |
| laterKnownAs | New York City Center ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ New York State ⓘ |
| originallyBuiltFor |
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
ⓘ
Shriners International ⓘ
surface form:
Shriners
|
| ownedBy |
Shriners International
ⓘ
surface form:
Shriners (historical)
|
| partOf |
New York City Center
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City Center complex
|
| significance | important New York City cultural venue ⓘ |
| usedFor |
concerts
ⓘ
fraternal organization meetings ⓘ public performances ⓘ theatrical productions ⓘ |
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: Mecca Temple Description of subject: Mecca Temple was a historic New York City performance and meeting hall originally built for the Shriners that later became known as New York City Center.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
New York City Center