Walter E. Washington Convention Center
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The Walter E. Washington Convention Center is a major, modern convention and exhibition facility in Washington, D.C., known for hosting large-scale conferences, trade shows, and public events.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter E. Washington Convention Center canonical | 11 |
| Old Washington Convention Center | 2 |
| Washington Convention Center (before renaming) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3816143 — 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 E. Washington Convention Center Context triple: [Events DC, manages, Walter E. Washington Convention Center]
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A.
Capital Centre
Capital Centre was a now-demolished indoor sports and entertainment arena in Landover, Maryland, that once hosted the Washington Capitals and Washington Bullets.
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B.
Baltimore Convention Center
The Baltimore Convention Center is a major multi-purpose convention and exhibition facility located in downtown Baltimore, Maryland.
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C.
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center is a major federal office and conference complex in Washington, D.C., known for its postmodern architecture and role as a hub for international trade and government agencies.
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D.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum annex in Virginia that houses large aviation and space artifacts, including the space shuttle Discovery and the Enola Gay.
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E.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is the United States’ national cultural center and a major venue in Washington, D.C. for theater, music, dance, and other performing arts.
- 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 E. Washington Convention Center Target entity description: The Walter E. Washington Convention Center is a major, modern convention and exhibition facility in Washington, D.C., known for hosting large-scale conferences, trade shows, and public events.
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A.
Capital Centre
Capital Centre was a now-demolished indoor sports and entertainment arena in Landover, Maryland, that once hosted the Washington Capitals and Washington Bullets.
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B.
Baltimore Convention Center
The Baltimore Convention Center is a major multi-purpose convention and exhibition facility located in downtown Baltimore, Maryland.
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C.
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center is a major federal office and conference complex in Washington, D.C., known for its postmodern architecture and role as a hub for international trade and government agencies.
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D.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum annex in Virginia that houses large aviation and space artifacts, including the space shuttle Discovery and the Enola Gay.
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E.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is the United States’ national cultural center and a major venue in Washington, D.C. for theater, music, dance, and other performing arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
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convention center ⓘ exhibition center ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| address | 801 Mount Vernon Place NW, Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | modern ⓘ |
| ballroomSpace | approximately 77,000 square feet ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1998 ⓘ |
| coordinates | 38.903°N 77.023°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| exhibitSpace | approximately 703,000 square feet ⓘ |
| floorArea | approximately 2,300,000 square feet ⓘ |
| formerName |
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Washington Convention Center (before renaming)
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| hasArtCollection | one of the largest public art collections in Washington, D.C. convention facilities ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
ballrooms
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food court ⓘ meeting rooms ⓘ parking facilities ⓘ public art collection ⓘ underground exhibit halls ⓘ |
| hosts |
conventions
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cultural events ⓘ exhibitions ⓘ inaugural balls ⓘ political events ⓘ public events ⓘ trade shows ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| meetingSpace | approximately 198,000 square feet ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Walter Washington
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surface form:
Walter E. Washington
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| neighborhood | Mount Vernon Square ⓘ |
| notableEventHosted |
Awesome Con
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Otakon (selected years) ⓘ Washington Auto Show ⓘ presidential inaugural balls ⓘ |
| numberOfMeetingRooms | 90+ ⓘ |
| openingDate | 2003 ⓘ |
| operator | Events DC ⓘ |
| owner | Events DC ⓘ |
| partOf | Downtown Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| publicTransitAccess |
Mount Vernon Square station
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surface form:
Mount Vernon Square–7th Street–Convention Center station
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| publicTransitSystem | Washington Metro ⓘ |
| region | District of Columbia ⓘ |
| renamingDate | 2007 ⓘ |
| replaced |
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Old Washington Convention Center
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| website | https://www.dcconvention.com ⓘ |
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 E. Washington Convention Center Description of subject: The Walter E. Washington Convention Center is a major, modern convention and exhibition facility in Washington, D.C., known for hosting large-scale conferences, trade shows, and public events.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Old Washington Convention Center
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
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Walter E. Washington Convention Center
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Old Washington Convention Center
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
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formerName
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Walter E. Washington Convention Center
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Washington Convention Center (before renaming)