St. Louis Arena
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St. Louis Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in St. Louis, Missouri, best known for hosting professional basketball and hockey games as well as major concerts and events before its demolition in 1999.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| St. Louis Arena canonical | 9 |
| St. Louis Arena (historical) | 1 |
| St. Louis Arena and Convention Center | 1 |
| St. Louis Arena, St. Louis, Missouri | 1 |
| St. Louis Checkerdome | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T486248 — 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: St. Louis Arena Context triple: [St. Louis Bombers, homeArena, St. Louis Arena]
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A.
Nynex Arena
Nynex Arena was the original name of the large indoor entertainment and sports venue now known as Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.
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B.
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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C.
Amalie Arena
Amalie Arena is a major indoor sports and entertainment venue in downtown Tampa, Florida, best known as the home arena of the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning and a host site for concerts and large events.
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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.
San Jose Arena
San Jose Arena, now known as SAP Center at San Jose, is a major indoor sports and entertainment venue in San Jose, California, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s San Jose Sharks.
- 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: St. Louis Arena Target entity description: St. Louis Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in St. Louis, Missouri, best known for hosting professional basketball and hockey games as well as major concerts and events before its demolition in 1999.
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A.
Nynex Arena
Nynex Arena was the original name of the large indoor entertainment and sports venue now known as Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.
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B.
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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C.
Amalie Arena
Amalie Arena is a major indoor sports and entertainment venue in downtown Tampa, Florida, best known as the home arena of the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning and a host site for concerts and large events.
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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.
San Jose Arena
San Jose Arena, now known as SAP Center at San Jose, is a major indoor sports and entertainment venue in San Jose, California, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s San Jose Sharks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct indoor arena
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entertainment venue ⓘ indoor arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Checkerdome
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St. Louis Arena ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis Arena and Convention Center
St. Louis Arena ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis Checkerdome
The Arena ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | steel-truss roof ⓘ |
| cityServed | St. Louis metropolitan area ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| demolished | 1999-02-27 ⓘ |
| demolitionReason |
maintenance costs
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obsolescence ⓘ |
| laterOwner |
Purina
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surface form:
Ralston Purina
St. Louis Blues ownership group ⓘ |
| leagueHosted |
Major Indoor Soccer League
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National Basketball Association ⓘ National Hockey League ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Midtown St. Louis
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Missouri ⓘ St. Louis, Missouri, United States ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis
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| notableEventHosted |
NBA playoff games
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NCAA basketball games ⓘ NHL Stanley Cup Finals games ⓘ major rock concerts ⓘ |
| opened | 1929-01-01 ⓘ |
| owner |
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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surface form:
City of St. Louis
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| primaryUse |
basketball
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concerts ⓘ conventions ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| roofType | lamella roof ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity | 18000 ⓘ |
| seatingCapacityBasketball | 18000 ⓘ |
| seatingCapacityHockey | 16500 ⓘ |
| significance | major sports and entertainment venue in St. Louis in the 20th century ⓘ |
| siteUseAfterDemolition | commercial development ⓘ |
| status | demolished ⓘ |
| tenant |
St. Louis Arena Football teams
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St. Louis Blues ⓘ St. Louis Eagles ⓘ Atlanta Hawks ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis Hawks
St. Louis Steamers ⓘ St. Louis Steamers ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis Storm
Saint Louis Billikens ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis University Billikens men's basketball
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How these facts were elicited
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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: St. Louis Arena Description of subject: St. Louis Arena was a historic indoor sports and entertainment venue in St. Louis, Missouri, best known for hosting professional basketball and hockey games as well as major concerts and events before its demolition in 1999.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
St. Louis Arena, St. Louis, Missouri
this entity surface form:
St. Louis Checkerdome
this entity surface form:
St. Louis Arena and Convention Center
this entity surface form:
St. Louis Arena (historical)