Walter Pyramid
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Walter Pyramid is a distinctive blue, pyramid-shaped indoor arena on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, best known as a venue for college basketball and volleyball.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Walter Pyramid canonical | 12 |
| Walter Pyramid (namesake honor) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T255663 — 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: Walter Pyramid Context triple: [Long Beach, hasSportsVenue, Walter Pyramid]
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A.
Transamerica Pyramid
The Transamerica Pyramid is an iconic, pyramid-shaped skyscraper in San Francisco and one of the city's most recognizable architectural landmarks.
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B.
Eureka Tower
Eureka Tower is a prominent residential skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia, known for its striking gold-plated crown and once being one of the tallest residential buildings in the world.
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C.
Renaissance Tower
Renaissance Tower is a prominent modernist office skyscraper and one of the most recognizable landmarks in the Dallas, Texas skyline.
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D.
Sunsphere
The Sunsphere is a 266-foot-tall, gold-glass observation tower built as the symbol of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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E.
Lavietes Pavilion
Lavietes Pavilion is an indoor basketball arena at Harvard University that serves as the home court for the Harvard Crimson basketball teams.
- 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: Walter Pyramid Target entity description: Walter Pyramid is a distinctive blue, pyramid-shaped indoor arena on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, best known as a venue for college basketball and volleyball.
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A.
Transamerica Pyramid
The Transamerica Pyramid is an iconic, pyramid-shaped skyscraper in San Francisco and one of the city's most recognizable architectural landmarks.
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B.
Eureka Tower
Eureka Tower is a prominent residential skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia, known for its striking gold-plated crown and once being one of the tallest residential buildings in the world.
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C.
Renaissance Tower
Renaissance Tower is a prominent modernist office skyscraper and one of the most recognizable landmarks in the Dallas, Texas skyline.
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D.
Sunsphere
The Sunsphere is a 266-foot-tall, gold-glass observation tower built as the symbol of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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E.
Lavietes Pavilion
Lavietes Pavilion is an indoor basketball arena at Harvard University that serves as the home court for the Harvard Crimson basketball teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
indoor arena
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landmark ⓘ pyramid-shaped building ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| architect | Don Gibbs ⓘ |
| architectureFirm | Gibbs & Associates ⓘ |
| brokeGround | 1992 ⓘ |
| city | Long Beach ⓘ |
| color | blue ⓘ |
| constructionCost | approximately 22 million US dollars ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| feature |
locker rooms
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multiple practice courts ⓘ offices ⓘ retractable seating ⓘ training facilities ⓘ |
| floorArea | approximately 180000 square feet ⓘ |
| height |
approximately 121 feet
ⓘ
approximately 37 meters ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
California State University, Long Beach ⓘ
surface form:
California State University, Long Beach campus
Long Beach ⓘ
surface form:
Long Beach, California
Los Angeles County ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles County, California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| material |
aluminum cladding
ⓘ
steel ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mike and Arline Walter ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive blue exterior
ⓘ
pyramid shape visible from a distance ⓘ |
| opened | 1994 ⓘ |
| operator | California State University, Long Beach ⓘ |
| ownedBy | California State University, Long Beach ⓘ |
| partOf | California State University system sports facilities ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
college basketball venue
ⓘ
college volleyball venue ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity | about 5000 ⓘ |
| shape | square pyramid ⓘ |
| sport |
basketball
ⓘ
volleyball ⓘ |
| tenant |
Long Beach State Beach men's basketball team
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Long Beach State Beach men's volleyball team ⓘ Long Beach State Beach women's basketball team ⓘ Long Beach State Beach women's volleyball team ⓘ |
| usedFor |
NCAA basketball games
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NCAA volleyball matches ⓘ community events ⓘ concerts ⓘ graduation ceremonies ⓘ |
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: Walter Pyramid Description of subject: Walter Pyramid is a distinctive blue, pyramid-shaped indoor arena on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, best known as a venue for college basketball and volleyball.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
California State University, Long Beach
this entity surface form:
Walter Pyramid (namesake honor)