San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center
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The San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center is a major cultural complex in San Francisco that houses venues like the War Memorial Opera House and Davies Symphony Hall, serving as home to the city’s opera, ballet, and symphony.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center canonical | 14 |
| San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building | 3 |
| San Francisco Theatre District | 1 |
| Veterans Building (San Francisco) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T829952 — 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: San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center Context triple: [San Francisco City Hall, near, San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center]
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A.
San Francisco War Memorial Opera House
The San Francisco War Memorial Opera House is a historic performing arts venue in San Francisco renowned as the longtime home of the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet.
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B.
San Francisco Civic Auditorium
The San Francisco Civic Auditorium is a historic multipurpose event venue in San Francisco known for hosting major cultural, political, and technological events, including landmark demonstrations in computing history.
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C.
Civic Center, San Francisco
Civic Center, San Francisco is a historic governmental and cultural district in the heart of the city, known for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture, major civic institutions, and prominent public plazas.
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D.
San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco City Hall is a historic Beaux-Arts landmark in the city’s Civic Center, serving as the seat of government and a prominent architectural symbol of San Francisco.
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E.
Zellerbach Theatre
Zellerbach Theatre is a primary performance venue within the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, hosting a wide range of theater, dance, and music events.
- 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: San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center Target entity description: The San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center is a major cultural complex in San Francisco that houses venues like the War Memorial Opera House and Davies Symphony Hall, serving as home to the city’s opera, ballet, and symphony.
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A.
San Francisco War Memorial Opera House
The San Francisco War Memorial Opera House is a historic performing arts venue in San Francisco renowned as the longtime home of the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet.
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B.
San Francisco Civic Auditorium
The San Francisco Civic Auditorium is a historic multipurpose event venue in San Francisco known for hosting major cultural, political, and technological events, including landmark demonstrations in computing history.
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C.
Civic Center, San Francisco
Civic Center, San Francisco is a historic governmental and cultural district in the heart of the city, known for its grand Beaux-Arts architecture, major civic institutions, and prominent public plazas.
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D.
San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco City Hall is a historic Beaux-Arts landmark in the city’s Civic Center, serving as the seat of government and a prominent architectural symbol of San Francisco.
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E.
Zellerbach Theatre
Zellerbach Theatre is a primary performance venue within the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, hosting a wide range of theater, dance, and music events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural complex
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performing arts center ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| category |
Culture of San Francisco
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Music venues in San Francisco ⓘ Opera houses in California ⓘ Tourist attractions in San Francisco ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasPart |
Green Room
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Herbst Theatre ⓘ Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall ⓘ War Memorial Opera House ⓘ War Memorial Veterans Building ⓘ Wilsey Center for Opera ⓘ |
| hasUse |
ballet performances
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civic events ⓘ lectures ⓘ opera performances ⓘ recitals ⓘ symphony concerts ⓘ theatrical performances ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.sfwmpac.org/ ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
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surface form:
National Historic Landmark District (as part of Civic Center)
San Francisco Designated Landmark ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco Landmark
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| homeVenueOf |
San Francisco Ballet
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San Francisco Opera ⓘ San Francisco Symphony ⓘ |
| inception | 1932 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Civic Center, San Francisco ⓘ San Francisco ⓘ |
| namedFor | military veterans of World War I ⓘ |
| operator | San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center Board of Trustees ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
San Francisco County
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surface form:
City and County of San Francisco
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| partOf |
Civic Center, San Francisco
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surface form:
San Francisco Civic Center Historic District
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| publicTransitAccess | Civic Center/UN Plaza station ⓘ |
| significantEvent | Signing of the United Nations Charter in 1945 (in Veterans Building / Herbst Theatre) ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 301 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, California ⓘ |
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: San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center Description of subject: The San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center is a major cultural complex in San Francisco that houses venues like the War Memorial Opera House and Davies Symphony Hall, serving as home to the city’s opera, ballet, and symphony.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Union Square (San Francisco)
this entity surface form:
San Francisco Theatre District
this entity surface form:
San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building
San Francisco War Memorial Opera House
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partOf
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San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center
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San Francisco War Memorial Opera House
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operator
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San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center
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this entity surface form:
San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building
War Memorial Opera House
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neighboringBuilding
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San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center
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this entity surface form:
Veterans Building (San Francisco)
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall
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operatedBy
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San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center
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this entity surface form:
San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building