Downing Stadium
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Downing Stadium was a historic multi-purpose sports venue on Randall’s Island in New York City, known for hosting football, track and field, and major events before its demolition and replacement by Icahn Stadium.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Downing Stadium canonical | 5 |
| Franklin Field | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
demolished building
ⓘ
multi-purpose stadium ⓘ sports stadium ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | utilitarian stadium design ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| builtFor | Works Progress Administration project ⓘ |
| capacity | approximately 22,000 ⓘ |
| constructionCompletedIn | 1936 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| demolishedIn | 2002 ⓘ |
| demolishedToMakeWayFor | Icahn Stadium ONNED1 ⓘ |
| formerName | Randall's Island Stadium ONNED1 ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
U.S. Olympic Trials (track and field)
ⓘ
surface form:
1936 U.S. Olympic Trials (track and field)
1964 New York City high school football championship games ⓘ 1974 NASL Soccer Bowl ⓘ 1977 New York Cosmos home matches featuring Pelé ⓘ 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival ⓘ
surface form:
Harlem Cultural Festival concerts (1969)
|
| isOnIsland | Randall's Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterSurface | artificial turf ⓘ |
| location |
New York City
ⓘ
New York County ⓘ New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
Randalls Island ⓘ
surface form:
Randall's Island
|
| namedAfter | John J. Downing Jr. ⓘ |
| near |
Bronx
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Queens ONNED1 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
deteriorated facilities before demolition
ⓘ
poor lighting conditions in later years ⓘ |
| openedIn | 1936 ⓘ |
| operator | New York City Department of Parks and Recreation ⓘ |
| owner |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
City of New York
|
| partOf | Randall's Island Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | East River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Icahn Stadium ⓘ |
| surface | natural grass ⓘ |
| tenant |
City College of New York Beavers
ONNED1
ⓘ
Manhattan College ⓘ
surface form:
Manhattan College Jaspers
New York Cosmos ⓘ New York Giants ⓘ
surface form:
New York Giants (NFL, practice and occasional games)
New York Skyliners ⓘ New York Yankees (AAFC) ⓘ |
| usedFor |
American football
ⓘ
association football ⓘ concerts ⓘ lacrosse ⓘ special events ⓘ track and field ⓘ |
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: Downing Stadium Description of subject: Downing Stadium was a historic multi-purpose sports venue on Randall’s Island in New York City, known for hosting football, track and field, and major events before its demolition and replacement by Icahn Stadium.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Icahn Stadium
this entity surface form:
Franklin Field