Seattle Center Coliseum
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Seattle Center Coliseum, later known as KeyArena, was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Seattle best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Seattle SuperSonics and a major venue for sports and entertainment events.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seattle Center Coliseum canonical | 9 |
| KeyArena at Seattle Center | 1 |
| Seattle Center arena complex | 1 |
| Washington State Coliseum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T470176 — 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: Seattle Center Coliseum Context triple: [Seattle SuperSonics, homeArena, Seattle Center Coliseum]
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A.
Gill Coliseum
Gill Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, primarily serving as the home venue for the university’s basketball and other athletic programs.
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Staples Center
Staples Center is a major multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Los Angeles, best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Lakers and Clippers and a premier venue for concerts and major events.
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C.
Memorial Coliseum
Memorial Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Portland, Oregon, best known as the original home venue of the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers.
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D.
Thompson–Boling Arena
Thompson–Boling Arena is a large multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue located on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville.
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E.
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.
- 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: Seattle Center Coliseum Target entity description: Seattle Center Coliseum, later known as KeyArena, was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Seattle best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Seattle SuperSonics and a major venue for sports and entertainment events.
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A.
Gill Coliseum
Gill Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, primarily serving as the home venue for the university’s basketball and other athletic programs.
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B.
Staples Center
Staples Center is a major multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Los Angeles, best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Lakers and Clippers and a premier venue for concerts and major events.
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C.
Memorial Coliseum
Memorial Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Portland, Oregon, best known as the original home venue of the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers.
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D.
Thompson–Boling Arena
Thompson–Boling Arena is a large multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue located on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entertainment venue
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indoor arena ⓘ multi-purpose arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | modernist ⓘ |
| category |
defunct National Basketball Association venue
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indoor ice hockey venue in Washington state ⓘ music venue in Seattle ⓘ |
| city | Seattle ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| demolishedOrRebuilt | substantially rebuilt with only roof preserved ⓘ |
| event |
Century 21 Exposition
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surface form:
Century 21 Exposition (1962 Seattle World’s Fair)
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| formerName | Washington State Pavilion ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
NBA home games of Seattle SuperSonics
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NCAA basketball games ⓘ major touring concerts ⓘ professional wrestling events ⓘ |
| laterKnownAs |
Climate Pledge Arena
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KeyArena ⓘ |
| leagueOfPrimaryTenant | National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Seattle Center
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Seattle, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| notableAs | longtime home arena of the Seattle SuperSonics ⓘ |
| openedAsPavilionFor | Century 21 Exposition ⓘ |
| openingYear | 1962 ⓘ |
| ownership |
Seattle, Washington, United States
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surface form:
City of Seattle
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| partOf |
Seattle Center
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surface form:
Seattle Center campus
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| primaryTenant | Seattle SuperSonics ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| renovation |
gut-and-rebuild renovation starting 2018
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major renovation in mid-1990s ⓘ |
| roofStatus | historic roof preserved and landmarked ⓘ |
| seatingType | indoor seated bowl ⓘ |
| significance | major sports and entertainment venue in Seattle ⓘ |
| sponsoredName |
Seattle Center Coliseum
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
KeyArena at Seattle Center
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| state | Washington ⓘ |
| successorFacilityName | Climate Pledge Arena ⓘ |
| usedFor |
basketball
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concerts ⓘ conventions ⓘ family entertainment events ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ |
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: Seattle Center Coliseum Description of subject: Seattle Center Coliseum, later known as KeyArena, was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Seattle best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Seattle SuperSonics and a major venue for sports and entertainment events.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Washington State Coliseum
this entity surface form:
KeyArena at Seattle Center
subject surface form:
Seattle University Redhawks men's basketball
this entity surface form:
Seattle Center arena complex