Capital One Arena
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Capital One Arena is a major indoor sports and entertainment venue in Washington, D.C., best known as the home of the NHL’s Washington Capitals.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Capital One Arena canonical | 38 |
| Verizon Center | 4 |
| Capital Centre | 1 |
| Verizon Center (former name of Capital One Arena) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11165 — 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: Capital One Arena Context triple: [Washington Capitals, homeArena, Capital One Arena]
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TD Garden
TD Garden is a major multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the home venue of the NBA's Boston Celtics and the NHL's Boston Bruins.
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Boston Garden
Boston Garden was a famed indoor sports and entertainment arena in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Boston Celtics and the NHL’s Boston Bruins.
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C.
United Center
The United Center is a major indoor sports and entertainment arena in Chicago best known as the home of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls and the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks.
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Johnson Athletic Center
Johnson Athletic Center is an indoor sports and recreation facility on the MIT campus that hosts the MIT Engineers’ athletic events and training.
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E.
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.
- 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: Capital One Arena Target entity description: Capital One Arena is a major indoor sports and entertainment venue in Washington, D.C., best known as the home of the NHL’s Washington Capitals.
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A.
TD Garden
TD Garden is a major multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the home venue of the NBA's Boston Celtics and the NHL's Boston Bruins.
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B.
Boston Garden
Boston Garden was a famed indoor sports and entertainment arena in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Boston Celtics and the NHL’s Boston Bruins.
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C.
United Center
The United Center is a major indoor sports and entertainment arena in Chicago best known as the home of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls and the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks.
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D.
Johnson Athletic Center
Johnson Athletic Center is an indoor sports and recreation facility on the MIT campus that hosts the MIT Engineers’ athletic events and training.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Capital One Arena Description of subject: Capital One Arena is a major indoor sports and entertainment venue in Washington, D.C., best known as the home of the NHL’s Washington Capitals.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Capital Centre
this entity surface form:
Verizon Center
this entity surface form:
Verizon Center
this entity surface form:
Verizon Center
Old Patent Office Building (now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery)
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Capital One Arena
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subject surface form:
Old Patent Office Building
subject surface form:
Chinatown (Washington, D.C.)
subject surface form:
Chinatown (Washington, D.C.)
this entity surface form:
Verizon Center (former name of Capital One Arena)
this entity surface form:
Verizon Center