Barrowland Ballroom
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Barrowland Ballroom is a famous Glasgow music venue and dance hall renowned for its distinctive neon signage and historic role in the city's live music scene.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Barrowland Ballroom canonical | 5 |
| The Barrowland Ballroom | 1 |
| The Barrowlands | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T349921 — 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: Barrowland Ballroom Context triple: [Glasgow, hasConcertVenue, Barrowland Ballroom]
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A.
Festival Hall
Festival Hall is a large indoor exhibition and event venue located on Chicago’s Navy Pier, used for trade shows, conventions, and public events.
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B.
West Road Concert Hall
West Road Concert Hall is a prominent classical music and performance venue in Cambridge, England, known for hosting concerts, recitals, and university events.
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C.
Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline
Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline is a historic performing arts venue and community theatre in Dunfermline, Scotland, known for hosting a wide range of music, drama, and cultural events.
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D.
Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline
Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline is a historic Scottish performance venue known for hosting a wide range of live entertainment, including theatre, music, comedy, and community events.
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E.
Terrace Theater
Terrace Theater is an intimate performance venue within Washington, D.C.’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, hosting chamber music, jazz, and other small-scale events.
- 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: Barrowland Ballroom Target entity description: Barrowland Ballroom is a famous Glasgow music venue and dance hall renowned for its distinctive neon signage and historic role in the city's live music scene.
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A.
Festival Hall
Festival Hall is a large indoor exhibition and event venue located on Chicago’s Navy Pier, used for trade shows, conventions, and public events.
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B.
West Road Concert Hall
West Road Concert Hall is a prominent classical music and performance venue in Cambridge, England, known for hosting concerts, recitals, and university events.
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C.
Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline
Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline is a historic performing arts venue and community theatre in Dunfermline, Scotland, known for hosting a wide range of music, drama, and cultural events.
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D.
Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline
Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline is a historic Scottish performance venue known for hosting a wide range of live entertainment, including theatre, music, comedy, and community events.
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E.
Terrace Theater
Terrace Theater is an intimate performance venue within Washington, D.C.’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, hosting chamber music, jazz, and other small-scale events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
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dance hall ⓘ music venue ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | mid-20th-century commercial ⓘ |
| capacity | approximately 1900 ⓘ |
| city | Glasgow ⓘ |
| country |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| floorCount | 2 ⓘ |
| genre |
indie music
ⓘ
live music ⓘ pop music ⓘ rock concerts ⓘ |
| hasAddress | 244 Gallowgate, Glasgow ⓘ |
| hasBalconySeating | yes ⓘ |
| hasBoxOffice | on-site ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
ballroom-style interior
ⓘ
large neon sign ⓘ star-patterned sprung dance floor ⓘ |
| hasPart |
bar areas
ⓘ
main ballroom ⓘ upstairs balcony ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
favourite venue among touring bands
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one of Scotland's most iconic music venues ⓘ |
| hasStandingArea | yes ⓘ |
| hasType | indoor venue ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.glasgow-barrowland.com/ ⓘ |
| inception | 1934 ⓘ |
| locatedInArea |
East End of Glasgow
ⓘ
Gallowgate ⓘ |
| location | Glasgow ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Barras market ⓘ |
| notableFor |
acoustics
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distinctive neon frontage ⓘ historic role in Glasgow music scene ⓘ intimate atmosphere ⓘ |
| operatedAs |
ballroom
ⓘ
concert venue ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Barras Market family interests ⓘ |
| partOf | Barras complex ⓘ |
| region | Glasgow City council area ⓘ |
| reopened | 1960 ⓘ |
| reopenedAfter | fire in 1958 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
club nights
ⓘ
concerts ⓘ dances ⓘ |
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: Barrowland Ballroom Description of subject: Barrowland Ballroom is a famous Glasgow music venue and dance hall renowned for its distinctive neon signage and historic role in the city's live music scene.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Barrowland Ballroom