Spodek
E677533
Spodek is a distinctive, saucer-shaped multipurpose arena and entertainment venue located in Katowice, Poland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spodek canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7638694 — 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: Spodek Context triple: [Spodek, nativeName, Spodek]
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A.
Spode
Spode is a historic English pottery and porcelain manufacturer renowned for its fine bone china and influential ceramic designs.
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B.
Pinxton porcelain
Pinxton porcelain is a rare and highly collectible English bone china produced in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for its fine quality and elegant hand-painted decoration.
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C.
intu Potteries
intu Potteries is a major shopping centre located in Stoke-on-Trent, England, featuring a wide range of retail stores, dining options, and leisure facilities.
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D.
Staffordshire Potteries
Staffordshire Potteries is a historic ceramics-producing region in Staffordshire, England, renowned as a major center of the British pottery industry.
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E.
Middleport Pottery
Middleport Pottery is a historic Victorian-era ceramics factory in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, renowned for its traditional pottery production and preserved industrial heritage.
- 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: Spodek Target entity description: Spodek is a distinctive, saucer-shaped multipurpose arena and entertainment venue located in Katowice, Poland.
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A.
Spode
Spode is a historic English pottery and porcelain manufacturer renowned for its fine bone china and influential ceramic designs.
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B.
Pinxton porcelain
Pinxton porcelain is a rare and highly collectible English bone china produced in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for its fine quality and elegant hand-painted decoration.
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C.
intu Potteries
intu Potteries is a major shopping centre located in Stoke-on-Trent, England, featuring a wide range of retail stores, dining options, and leisure facilities.
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D.
Staffordshire Potteries
Staffordshire Potteries is a historic ceramics-producing region in Staffordshire, England, renowned as a major center of the British pottery industry.
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E.
Middleport Pottery
Middleport Pottery is a historic Victorian-era ceramics factory in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, renowned for its traditional pottery production and preserved industrial heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
indoor arena
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landmark ⓘ |
| architect |
Maciej Gintowt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maciej Krasiński NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | modernist architecture ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1964 ⓘ |
| country | Poland ⓘ |
| hasPart |
gymnasium
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hotel ⓘ ice rink ⓘ main arena ⓘ parking facilities ⓘ |
| hasUse |
basketball
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concerts ⓘ conferences ⓘ cultural events ⓘ exhibitions ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ volleyball ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.spodekkatowice.pl/ ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | symbol of Katowice ⓘ |
| inception | 1964 ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Polish ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Katowice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Silesian Voivodeship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
reinforced concrete
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steel ⓘ |
| maximumCapacity | about 11000 spectators ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | saucer ⓘ |
| nearbyPlace |
International Congress Centre Katowice
NERFINISHED
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Katowice city center ⓘ |
| nickname | UFO NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
iconic silhouette in Katowice skyline
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saucer-like roof structure ⓘ |
| officialOpeningDate | May 9, 1971 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1971 ⓘ |
| operator | City of Katowice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | City of Katowice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicTransitAccess | Katowice city bus network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roofType | suspended roof ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity | 11000 ⓘ |
| shape | saucer-shaped ⓘ |
| structuralEngineer | Wacław Zalewski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedForEvent |
e-sports tournaments
ⓘ
international sports tournaments ⓘ music festivals ⓘ |
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: Spodek Description of subject: Spodek is a distinctive, saucer-shaped multipurpose arena and entertainment venue located in Katowice, Poland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Spodek