The Joe
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The Joe is a famous indoor arena in Detroit, Michigan, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Joe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4865871 — 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: The Joe Context triple: [Joe Louis Arena, nickname, The Joe]
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A.
The Jake
The Jake is the popular nickname for Progressive Field, the Major League Baseball stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, home of the Cleveland Guardians.
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B.
A Guy Named Joe
A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 World War II romantic fantasy film about a deceased pilot who returns as a guardian spirit to mentor a younger aviator while struggling with his lingering love for his former girlfriend.
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C.
My Name Is Joe
My Name Is Joe is a 1998 British social-realist drama film directed by Ken Loach, focusing on an ex-alcoholic in Glasgow struggling with poverty, addiction, and relationships.
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D.
The Jack
The Jack is the nickname for Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, the former home of the NFL’s Washington Redskins (now Commanders) in Landover, Maryland.
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E.
The Jack
"The Jack" is a bluesy hard rock song by Australian band AC/DC, known for its suggestive lyrics and prominent place in their early live performances.
- 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: The Joe Target entity description: The Joe is a famous indoor arena in Detroit, Michigan, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings.
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A.
The Jake
The Jake is the popular nickname for Progressive Field, the Major League Baseball stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, home of the Cleveland Guardians.
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B.
A Guy Named Joe
A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 World War II romantic fantasy film about a deceased pilot who returns as a guardian spirit to mentor a younger aviator while struggling with his lingering love for his former girlfriend.
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C.
My Name Is Joe
My Name Is Joe is a 1998 British social-realist drama film directed by Ken Loach, focusing on an ex-alcoholic in Glasgow struggling with poverty, addiction, and relationships.
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D.
The Jack
The Jack is the nickname for Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, the former home of the NFL’s Washington Redskins (now Commanders) in Landover, Maryland.
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E.
The Jack
"The Jack" is a bluesy hard rock song by Australian band AC/DC, known for its suggestive lyrics and prominent place in their early live performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ice hockey venue
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indoor arena ⓘ multi-purpose arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| accessedBy | Detroit People Mover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brokeGround | 1977 ⓘ |
| category |
Defunct National Hockey League venues
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Indoor arenas in Michigan ⓘ Sports venues completed in 1979 ⓘ Sports venues in Detroit ⓘ |
| city | Detroit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closed | 2017 ⓘ |
| coordinates | 42.325°N 83.051°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| demolished |
2019
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2020 ⓘ |
| hasScoreboardType | center-hung scoreboard ⓘ |
| hostedEventType |
NHL games
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Stanley Cup playoff games ⓘ basketball games ⓘ college hockey games ⓘ concerts ⓘ figure skating events ⓘ professional wrestling events ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Wayne County, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Cobo Center
NERFINISHED
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Detroit River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Joe Louis
NERFINISHED
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Joseph Louis Barrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfterNationality | American ⓘ |
| namedAfterOccupation | professional boxer ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being longtime home of the Detroit Red Wings
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intense hockey atmosphere ⓘ |
| officialName | Joe Louis Arena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened |
1979
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December 12, 1979 ⓘ |
| operator | Olympia Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | City of Detroit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryTenant | Detroit Red Wings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Little Caesars Arena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seatingCapacityForConcerts | up to 21000 ⓘ |
| seatingCapacityForIceHockey | 20000 ⓘ |
| servedAsHomeArenaEndYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| servedAsHomeArenaFor | Detroit Red Wings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedAsHomeArenaStartYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan (most of state)
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surface form:
Michigan
|
| surface | ice ⓘ |
| tenantLeague | National Hockey League 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: The Joe Description of subject: The Joe is a famous indoor arena in Detroit, Michigan, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.