Matthews Arena

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Matthews Arena is a historic multi-purpose sports venue in Boston, Massachusetts, known as one of the oldest indoor ice hockey and basketball arenas still in use.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Matthews Arena canonical 9
Boston Arena 2

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf basketball venue
ice hockey venue
indoor arena
multi-purpose arena
sports venue
category College basketball venues in the United States
College ice hockey venues in the United States
Indoor ice hockey venues in Massachusetts
Northeastern Huskies sports venues
Sports venues in Boston
city Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston
country United States of America
surface form: United States
formerName Matthews Arena self-linksurface differs
surface form: Boston Arena
hasFunction multi-purpose sports and events facility
hasSeatingType indoor seating
hasSport basketball
ice hockey
other indoor sports
historicDesignation historic sports venue
isOneOf oldest indoor ice hockey arenas still in use
oldest multi-purpose athletic buildings in use
locatedIn Northeastern University
surface form: Northeastern University campus
locatedInTimeZone Eastern Time Zone
location Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
name Matthews Arena self-link
namedAfter George J. Matthews NERFINISHED
neighborhood Fenway–Kenmore
notableFor being one of the oldest basketball arenas still in use
being one of the oldest indoor ice hockey arenas still in use
opened 1910
openingDate April 25, 1910
operatedBy Northeastern University
ownedBy Northeastern University
primaryUse basketball
ice hockey
region New England
renovated multiple times
surface ice rink
tenants Northeastern Huskies men's basketball
Northeastern Huskies men's ice hockey
Northeastern Huskies
surface form: Northeastern Huskies women's basketball

Northeastern Huskies women's ice hockey
usedFor college basketball games
college ice hockey games
concerts
other indoor 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: Matthews Arena
Description of subject: Matthews Arena is a historic multi-purpose sports venue in Boston, Massachusetts, known as one of the oldest indoor ice hockey and basketball arenas still in use.

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Huskies homeArenaBasketball Matthews Arena
subject surface form: Northeastern Huskies
Huskies homeArenaIceHockey Matthews Arena
subject surface form: Northeastern Huskies
Boston campus hasFacility Matthews Arena
Montreal Canadiens–Boston Bruins rivalry firstGameLocation Matthews Arena
this entity surface form: Boston Arena
Matthews Arena name Matthews Arena self-link
Matthews Arena formerName Matthews Arena self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Boston Arena
Northeastern Huskies homeArena Matthews Arena