Salt Palace Arena
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Salt Palace Arena was a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in Salt Lake City, Utah, that hosted professional basketball, hockey, concerts, and major events before its demolition in the 1990s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arena station (Delta Center) | 1 |
| Salt Palace Arena canonical | 1 |
| Salt Palace Convention Center | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4845496 — 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)
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Target entity: Salt Palace Arena Context triple: [Salt Palace, alsoKnownAs, Salt Palace Arena]
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A.
Jon M. Huntsman Center
The Jon M. Huntsman Center is a large multi-purpose arena on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, best known for hosting major collegiate basketball and gymnastics events.
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B.
McCarthey Athletic Center
McCarthey Athletic Center is an on-campus basketball arena at Gonzaga University best known as the intimate, high-energy home venue of the university’s powerhouse men’s basketball program.
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C.
Denver Auditorium Arena
Denver Auditorium Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in Denver, Colorado, best known as an early home court of the Denver Nuggets basketball franchise.
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D.
McNichols Sports Arena
McNichols Sports Arena was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Denver, Colorado, best known for hosting professional basketball and hockey games as well as major concerts and events from the 1970s through the 1990s.
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E.
Silver Spurs Arena
Silver Spurs Arena is a multi-purpose indoor venue in Kissimmee, Florida, best known for hosting basketball games, concerts, and large community 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: Salt Palace Arena Target entity description: Salt Palace Arena was a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in Salt Lake City, Utah, that hosted professional basketball, hockey, concerts, and major events before its demolition in the 1990s.
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A.
Jon M. Huntsman Center
The Jon M. Huntsman Center is a large multi-purpose arena on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, best known for hosting major collegiate basketball and gymnastics events.
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B.
McCarthey Athletic Center
McCarthey Athletic Center is an on-campus basketball arena at Gonzaga University best known as the intimate, high-energy home venue of the university’s powerhouse men’s basketball program.
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C.
Denver Auditorium Arena
Denver Auditorium Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in Denver, Colorado, best known as an early home court of the Denver Nuggets basketball franchise.
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D.
McNichols Sports Arena
McNichols Sports Arena was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Denver, Colorado, best known for hosting professional basketball and hockey games as well as major concerts and events from the 1970s through the 1990s.
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E.
Silver Spurs Arena
Silver Spurs Arena is a multi-purpose indoor venue in Kissimmee, Florida, best known for hosting basketball games, concerts, and large community events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
demolished building
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indoor arena ⓘ multi-purpose arena ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | modernist arena design ⓘ |
| city | Salt Lake City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1967 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| demolished | 1994 ⓘ |
| demolitionStartDate | 1994 ⓘ |
| formerName | Salt Palace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
ABA games
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NBA games ⓘ boxing events ⓘ concerts ⓘ conventions ⓘ minor league hockey games ⓘ religious gatherings ⓘ |
| leagueOfTenant |
American Basketball Association
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Central Hockey League NERFINISHED ⓘ International Hockey League NERFINISHED ⓘ National Basketball Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Salt Lake City, Utah
NERFINISHED
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Utah ⓘ downtown Salt Lake City ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Salt Palace (original Salt Lake City exhibition hall) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableTenantPeriod |
Salt Lake Golden Eagles 1969–1994
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Utah Jazz 1979–1991 NERFINISHED ⓘ Utah Stars 1970–1975 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1969 ⓘ |
| operator | Salt Lake County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Salt Lake County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
basketball venue
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concert venue ⓘ convention and events venue ⓘ ice hockey venue ⓘ |
| publicTransit | Salt Lake City bus system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForDemolition | replacement by larger, more modern arena ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Delta Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity |
12000
ⓘ
12966 ⓘ |
| siteCurrentlyOccupiedBy | Salt Palace Convention Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Utah ⓘ |
| successorVenue | Delta Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surface |
hardwood court
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ice rink ⓘ |
| tenant |
Salt Lake Golden Eagles
NERFINISHED
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Utah Blaze NERFINISHED ⓘ Utah Jazz NERFINISHED ⓘ Utah Stars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Salt Palace Arena Description of subject: Salt Palace Arena was a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in Salt Lake City, Utah, that hosted professional basketball, hockey, concerts, and major events before its demolition in the 1990s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Downtown Salt Lake City
this entity surface form:
Salt Palace Convention Center
this entity surface form:
Arena station (Delta Center)