Uline Arena
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Uline Arena is a historic indoor venue in Washington, D.C., best known for hosting early professional basketball games and notable cultural events, including The Beatles’ first U.S. concert.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uline Arena canonical | 4 |
| Uline Arena Corporation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T586105 — 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: Uline Arena Context triple: [Washington Capitols, homeArena, Uline 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.
Van Andel Arena
Van Andel Arena is a major multi-purpose indoor venue in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, best known as the primary ice hockey arena and event center for the region.
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C.
Cable Dahmer Arena
Cable Dahmer Arena is a multi-purpose indoor venue in Independence, Missouri, hosting professional sports events, concerts, and other large-scale entertainment activities.
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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.
Bender Arena
Bender Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and events venue located on the campus of American University in Washington, D.C.
- 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: Uline Arena Target entity description: Uline Arena is a historic indoor venue in Washington, D.C., best known for hosting early professional basketball games and notable cultural events, including The Beatles’ first U.S. concert.
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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.
Van Andel Arena
Van Andel Arena is a major multi-purpose indoor venue in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, best known as the primary ice hockey arena and event center for the region.
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C.
Cable Dahmer Arena
Cable Dahmer Arena is a multi-purpose indoor venue in Independence, Missouri, hosting professional sports events, concerts, and other large-scale entertainment activities.
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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.
Bender Arena
Bender Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and events venue located on the campus of American University in Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic building
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indoor arena ⓘ music venue ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Uline Ice Arena
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Washington Coliseum ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | industrial architecture ⓘ |
| city | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| designedFor |
basketball
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ice hockey ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSignificance |
early professional basketball venue in Washington, D.C.
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site of The Beatles’ first U.S. concert ⓘ |
| hosted |
American Basketball Association games
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National Basketball Association games ⓘ professional basketball games ⓘ |
| hostedTeam | Washington Capitols ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| material |
brick
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reinforced concrete ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Miguel L. Uline ⓘ |
| neighborhood | NoMa ⓘ |
| notableEvent | The Beatles’ first U.S. concert ⓘ |
| notableEventDate | 1964-02-11 ⓘ |
| notablePerformer |
Bob Dylan
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Duke Ellington ⓘ Ray Charles ⓘ The Beatles ⓘ |
| opened | 1941 ⓘ |
| partOf | NoMa historic industrial district ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
concerts
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indoor sports ⓘ public events ⓘ |
| redevelopedAs | mixed-use complex ⓘ |
| redevelopmentUse |
office space
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restaurant space ⓘ retail space ⓘ |
| roofType | arched roof ⓘ |
| sport |
basketball
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boxing ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ wrestling ⓘ |
| structureType | enclosed arena ⓘ |
| usedAs |
concert hall
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convention venue ⓘ ice rink ⓘ political rally venue ⓘ |
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: Uline Arena Description of subject: Uline Arena is a historic indoor venue in Washington, D.C., best known for hosting early professional basketball games and notable cultural events, including The Beatles’ first U.S. concert.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Uline Arena Corporation