Detroit Olympia
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Detroit Olympia was a historic indoor arena in Detroit, Michigan, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings and a major venue for sports and entertainment events in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Detroit Olympia canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5447455 — 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: Detroit Olympia Context triple: [Olympia Stadium, alsoKnownAs, Detroit Olympia]
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A.
Detroit
Detroit is a major U.S. city in Michigan known historically as the center of the American automotive industry and for its influential contributions to music, particularly Motown.
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B.
Portland, Michigan
Portland, Michigan is a small city in Ionia County known for its historic downtown, multiple riverfront parks, and extensive network of pedestrian bridges and trails.
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C.
Dearborn
Dearborn is a city in the Detroit metropolitan area best known as the longtime headquarters of the Ford Motor Company and a historic center of the American automotive industry.
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D.
Detroit, Oregon
Detroit, Oregon is a small city in Marion County known as a gateway to outdoor recreation in the Cascade Range, including nearby forests, lakes, and wilderness areas.
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E.
Metropolis of Detroit
The Metropolis of Detroit is a regional ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America overseeing Greek Orthodox parishes in parts of the American Midwest.
- 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: Detroit Olympia Target entity description: Detroit Olympia was a historic indoor arena in Detroit, Michigan, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings and a major venue for sports and entertainment events in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Detroit
Detroit is a major U.S. city in Michigan known historically as the center of the American automotive industry and for its influential contributions to music, particularly Motown.
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B.
Portland, Michigan
Portland, Michigan is a small city in Ionia County known for its historic downtown, multiple riverfront parks, and extensive network of pedestrian bridges and trails.
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C.
Dearborn
Dearborn is a city in the Detroit metropolitan area best known as the longtime headquarters of the Ford Motor Company and a historic center of the American automotive industry.
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D.
Detroit, Oregon
Detroit, Oregon is a small city in Marion County known as a gateway to outdoor recreation in the Cascade Range, including nearby forests, lakes, and wilderness areas.
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E.
Metropolis of Detroit
The Metropolis of Detroit is a regional ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America overseeing Greek Orthodox parishes in parts of the American Midwest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former building
ⓘ
indoor arena ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Olympia Stadium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Old Red Barn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architect | C. Howard Crane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Art Deco ⓘ |
| brokeGroundOn | 1926 ⓘ |
| closedOn | 1979 ⓘ |
| constructionCost |
$2.5 million
ⓘ
1927 dollars ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| demolishedOn | 1987 ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
NHL All-Star Game 1950
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NHL All-Star Game 1952 NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Cup Finals games ⓘ |
| hostedEventType |
concerts
ⓘ
political rallies ⓘ professional wrestling ⓘ |
| hostedPerformer |
Elvis Presley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Led Zeppelin NERFINISHED ⓘ The Beatles NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rolling Stones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostedSport |
basketball
ⓘ
boxing ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ |
| hostedTeam |
Detroit Falcons (basketball)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Detroit Pistons (selected games) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Detroit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Northwest Goldberg neighborhood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
intimate sightlines for hockey
ⓘ
large red brick exterior ⓘ steep seating bowl ⓘ |
| openedOn | October 15, 1927 ⓘ |
| owner | Olympia Stadium Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryTenant | Detroit Red Wings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryTenantLeague | National Hockey League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedByVenue | Joe Louis Arena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seatingCapacityIceHockey |
15000
ⓘ
16000 ⓘ |
| servedAsHomeArenaFrom | Detroit Red Wings 1927 ⓘ |
| servedAsHomeArenaUntil | Detroit Red Wings 1979 ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 5920 Grand River Avenue ⓘ |
| successorSiteUse |
Detroit Police Department headquarters
NERFINISHED
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Michigan National Guard facility NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surfaceType | ice ⓘ |
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: Detroit Olympia Description of subject: Detroit Olympia was a historic indoor arena in Detroit, Michigan, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings and a major venue for sports and entertainment events in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.