Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, California
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Oakland Auditorium in Oakland, California is a historic multi-purpose venue known for hosting major concerts, cultural events, and community gatherings throughout the 20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, California canonical | 1 |
| Oakland Municipal Auditorium | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6144909 — 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: Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, California Context triple: [Althea, firstPerformancePlace, Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, California]
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A.
San Francisco Civic Auditorium
The San Francisco Civic Auditorium is a historic multipurpose event venue in San Francisco known for hosting major cultural, political, and technological events, including landmark demonstrations in computing history.
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B.
Fox Theater Oakland
Fox Theater Oakland is a historic, lavishly restored 1920s movie palace turned live music and performing arts venue in downtown Oakland, California.
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C.
Civic Auditorium
Civic Auditorium was the original name of Pittsburgh’s iconic multi-purpose indoor arena, later known as the Civic Arena, which hosted major sports, concerts, and events before its demolition.
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D.
Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum
Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum is a multi-purpose stadium in Oakland, California, best known as the longtime home of MLB’s Oakland Athletics and the NFL’s Oakland Raiders and for hosting major events like the 1989 World Series.
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E.
Fox Theatre San Francisco
Fox Theatre San Francisco was a lavish, historically significant movie palace in San Francisco known for its grand architecture and role in the golden age of American cinema exhibition.
- 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: Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, California Target entity description: Oakland Auditorium in Oakland, California is a historic multi-purpose venue known for hosting major concerts, cultural events, and community gatherings throughout the 20th century.
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A.
San Francisco Civic Auditorium
The San Francisco Civic Auditorium is a historic multipurpose event venue in San Francisco known for hosting major cultural, political, and technological events, including landmark demonstrations in computing history.
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B.
Fox Theater Oakland
Fox Theater Oakland is a historic, lavishly restored 1920s movie palace turned live music and performing arts venue in downtown Oakland, California.
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C.
Civic Auditorium
Civic Auditorium was the original name of Pittsburgh’s iconic multi-purpose indoor arena, later known as the Civic Arena, which hosted major sports, concerts, and events before its demolition.
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D.
Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum
Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum is a multi-purpose stadium in Oakland, California, best known as the longtime home of MLB’s Oakland Athletics and the NFL’s Oakland Raiders and for hosting major events like the 1989 World Series.
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E.
Fox Theatre San Francisco
Fox Theatre San Francisco was a lavish, historically significant movie palace in San Francisco known for its grand architecture and role in the golden age of American cinema exhibition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concert venue
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historic building ⓘ multi-purpose arena ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| category |
20th-century architecture in the United States
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Buildings and structures in Oakland, California ⓘ Event venues established in 1914 ⓘ Indoor arenas in California ⓘ Music venues in the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| city | Oakland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| eraOfProminence | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
auditorium
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exhibition hall ⓘ performance venue ⓘ sports arena ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alameda County
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surface form:
Alameda County, California
California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
Oakland ⓘ
surface form:
Oakland, California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| nearbyFeature | Lake Merritt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
boxing matches
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major rock concerts in the 1960s and 1970s ⓘ soul and R&B concerts in the mid-20th century ⓘ wrestling events ⓘ |
| opened | 1914 ⓘ |
| operator | City of Oakland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | City of Oakland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicTransitAccess | AC Transit bus service ⓘ |
| significance |
important Bay Area concert venue in the mid-20th century
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major civic gathering place for Oakland in the 20th century ⓘ |
| usedFor |
community events
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concerts ⓘ conventions ⓘ cultural events ⓘ graduation ceremonies ⓘ political rallies ⓘ religious gatherings ⓘ sporting events ⓘ trade shows ⓘ |
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: Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, California Description of subject: Oakland Auditorium in Oakland, California is a historic multi-purpose venue known for hosting major concerts, cultural events, and community gatherings throughout the 20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Oakland Municipal Auditorium