Coliseum Theater (Seattle)
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Coliseum Theater (Seattle) is a historic early 20th-century movie palace in downtown Seattle, renowned for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture and former status as one of the city's premier cinemas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Coliseum Theater (Seattle) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10256697 — 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: Coliseum Theater (Seattle) Context triple: [Charles Bebb, notableWork, Coliseum Theater (Seattle)]
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A.
Pantages Theatre, Seattle
Pantages Theatre in Seattle is a historic vaudeville and movie palace designed and built in the early 20th century as part of impresario Alexander Pantages’ influential theater circuit.
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B.
Pacific Coliseum
Pacific Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Vancouver, Canada, best known for hosting figure skating and short track speed skating events during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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C.
Seattle Center Coliseum
Seattle Center Coliseum, later known as KeyArena, was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Seattle best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Seattle SuperSonics and a major venue for sports and entertainment events.
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D.
Civic Auditorium
Civic Auditorium was the original name of Pittsburgh’s iconic multi-purpose indoor arena, later known as the Civic Arena, which hosted major sports, concerts, and events before its demolition.
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E.
Olympia Exhibition Hall
Olympia Exhibition Hall is a historic indoor entertainment and events venue located within the Winter Gardens complex in Blackpool, England.
- 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: Coliseum Theater (Seattle) Target entity description: Coliseum Theater (Seattle) is a historic early 20th-century movie palace in downtown Seattle, renowned for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture and former status as one of the city's premier cinemas.
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A.
Pantages Theatre, Seattle
Pantages Theatre in Seattle is a historic vaudeville and movie palace designed and built in the early 20th century as part of impresario Alexander Pantages’ influential theater circuit.
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B.
Pacific Coliseum
Pacific Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Vancouver, Canada, best known for hosting figure skating and short track speed skating events during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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C.
Seattle Center Coliseum
Seattle Center Coliseum, later known as KeyArena, was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Seattle best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Seattle SuperSonics and a major venue for sports and entertainment events.
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D.
Civic Auditorium
Civic Auditorium was the original name of Pittsburgh’s iconic multi-purpose indoor arena, later known as the Civic Arena, which hosted major sports, concerts, and events before its demolition.
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E.
Olympia Exhibition Hall
Olympia Exhibition Hall is a historic indoor entertainment and events venue located within the Winter Gardens complex in Blackpool, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
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historic theater ⓘ landmark ⓘ movie palace ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| buildingType | theater building ⓘ |
| category |
Beaux-Arts architecture in Washington (state)
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cinemas and movie theaters in Washington (state) ⓘ theaters in Seattle ⓘ |
| city | Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| culturalSignificance |
example of early 20th-century movie palace design
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part of Seattle's early cinema history ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| formerUse |
first-run movie theater
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premier cinema ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
decorative architectural details
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grand interior ⓘ large auditorium ⓘ ornate façade ⓘ |
| hasName |
Coliseum Theater
NERFINISHED
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Coliseum Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic building ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Seattle
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
downtown Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Westlake Park (Seattle) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | 5th Avenue (Seattle) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Coliseum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
grand Beaux-Arts architecture
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historic status ⓘ role as premier cinema in Seattle ⓘ |
| openingDate | early 20th century ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | public entertainment venue ⓘ |
| region | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| significance |
noted for grand Beaux-Arts architecture
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one of Seattle's premier early 20th-century cinemas ⓘ |
| state | Washington (state) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| use |
cinema
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movie theater ⓘ |
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: Coliseum Theater (Seattle) Description of subject: Coliseum Theater (Seattle) is a historic early 20th-century movie palace in downtown Seattle, renowned for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture and former status as one of the city's premier cinemas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.