General Motors Place
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General Motors Place was a major indoor sports and entertainment arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks and host to numerous high-profile events.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| General Motors Place canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8514896 — 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)
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Target entity: General Motors Place Context triple: [2001 World Figure Skating Championships, venue, General Motors Place]
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A.
Cadillac Arena
Cadillac Arena is a major multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in Beijing, China, known for hosting basketball games, concerts, and international events.
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B.
Manulife Centre
Manulife Centre is a mixed-use commercial and residential complex in Toronto’s Yorkville area, known for its shops, services, and high-rise apartments.
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C.
Central Energy Trust Arena
Central Energy Trust Arena is a major multi-purpose sports and events stadium complex located in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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D.
FirstOntario Centre
FirstOntario Centre is a large multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, primarily used for sports events and concerts.
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E.
Scotiabank Place
Scotiabank Place was the former name of the multi-purpose arena in Ottawa that serves as the home venue for the NHL’s Ottawa Senators.
- 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: General Motors Place Target entity description: General Motors Place was a major indoor sports and entertainment arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks and host to numerous high-profile events.
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A.
Cadillac Arena
Cadillac Arena is a major multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in Beijing, China, known for hosting basketball games, concerts, and international events.
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B.
Manulife Centre
Manulife Centre is a mixed-use commercial and residential complex in Toronto’s Yorkville area, known for its shops, services, and high-rise apartments.
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C.
Central Energy Trust Arena
Central Energy Trust Arena is a major multi-purpose sports and events stadium complex located in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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D.
FirstOntario Centre
FirstOntario Centre is a large multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, primarily used for sports events and concerts.
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E.
Scotiabank Place
Scotiabank Place was the former name of the multi-purpose arena in Ottawa that serves as the home venue for the NHL’s Ottawa Senators.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | indoor arena ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | GM Place NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architect | Brisbin Brook Beynon Architects NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brokeGround | 1993-07-13 ⓘ |
| city | Vancouver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionCost | CAD 160 million ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| currentNameOf | General Motors Place NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerName | Rogers Arena (after renaming) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Rogers Arena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
2010 Winter Olympics ice hockey
ⓘ
2010 Winter Olympics ice sledge hockey ⓘ NHL All-Star Game 1998 NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Cup Finals 1994 (as Pacific Coliseum, not GM Place) ⓘ Stanley Cup Finals 2011 NERFINISHED ⓘ WWE events ⓘ major concerts ⓘ |
| league |
National Basketball Association
ⓘ
National Hockey League ⓘ National Lacrosse League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Vancouver ⓘ |
| namingRightsHolder | General Motors of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Downtown Vancouver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialOlympicName | Canada Hockey Place NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opened | 1995-09-21 ⓘ |
| openingYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| operator | Canucks Sports & Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Canucks Sports & Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parkingCapacity | over 700 stalls ⓘ |
| primaryTenant | Vancouver Canucks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicTransitAccess | Stadium–Chinatown SkyTrain station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renamedAs | Rogers Arena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renamingDate | 2010-07-06 ⓘ |
| roofType | fixed roof ⓘ |
| seatingCapacityBasketball | around 18890 ⓘ |
| seatingCapacityIceHockey | around 18630 ⓘ |
| sponsor | General Motors of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surface | multi-surface ⓘ |
| tenant |
Vancouver Grizzlies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vancouver Ravens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
basketball
ⓘ
concerts ⓘ family shows ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ lacrosse ⓘ |
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: General Motors Place Description of subject: General Motors Place was a major indoor sports and entertainment arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks and host to numerous high-profile events.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.