Great American Pyramid
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The Great American Pyramid is a distinctive pyramid-shaped arena and landmark in Memphis, Tennessee, originally built as a sports and entertainment venue and later converted into a Bass Pro Shops megastore and tourist attraction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great American Pyramid canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T990162 — 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: Great American Pyramid Context triple: [Memphis Pyramid, formerName, Great American Pyramid]
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A.
The Pyramid
The Pyramid is the popular nickname for the Transamerica Pyramid, a distinctive, pyramid-shaped skyscraper and iconic feature of the San Francisco skyline.
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B.
Walter Pyramid
Walter Pyramid is a distinctive blue, pyramid-shaped indoor arena on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, best known as a venue for college basketball and volleyball.
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C.
Black Pyramid
The Black Pyramid is an ancient Egyptian pyramid at Dahshur, notable for its dark mudbrick core and association with the Middle Kingdom pharaoh Amenemhat III.
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D.
Transamerica Pyramid
The Transamerica Pyramid is an iconic, pyramid-shaped skyscraper in San Francisco and one of the city's most recognizable architectural landmarks.
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E.
Pyramid
Pyramid is a lightweight, flexible Python web framework designed to scale from small applications to large, complex systems while offering great configurability and extensibility.
- 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: Great American Pyramid Target entity description: The Great American Pyramid is a distinctive pyramid-shaped arena and landmark in Memphis, Tennessee, originally built as a sports and entertainment venue and later converted into a Bass Pro Shops megastore and tourist attraction.
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A.
The Pyramid
The Pyramid is the popular nickname for the Transamerica Pyramid, a distinctive, pyramid-shaped skyscraper and iconic feature of the San Francisco skyline.
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B.
Walter Pyramid
Walter Pyramid is a distinctive blue, pyramid-shaped indoor arena on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, best known as a venue for college basketball and volleyball.
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C.
Black Pyramid
The Black Pyramid is an ancient Egyptian pyramid at Dahshur, notable for its dark mudbrick core and association with the Middle Kingdom pharaoh Amenemhat III.
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D.
Transamerica Pyramid
The Transamerica Pyramid is an iconic, pyramid-shaped skyscraper in San Francisco and one of the city's most recognizable architectural landmarks.
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E.
Pyramid
Pyramid is a lightweight, flexible Python web framework designed to scale from small applications to large, complex systems while offering great configurability and extensibility.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
arena
ⓘ
building ⓘ landmark ⓘ pyramid-shaped building ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Postmodern ⓘ |
| city | Memphis ⓘ |
| convertedToBassProShops | 2015 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| currentTenant | Bass Pro Shops ⓘ |
| currentUse |
retail megastore
ⓘ
tourist attraction ⓘ |
| formerName |
Memphis Pyramid
ⓘ
surface form:
Pyramid Arena
The Pyramid ⓘ |
| hasHotel | yes ⓘ |
| hasIndoorSwamp | yes ⓘ |
| hasObservationDeck | yes ⓘ |
| hasRestaurant | yes ⓘ |
| height |
approximately 321 feet
ⓘ
approximately 98 meters ⓘ |
| inception | 1991 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Memphis
ⓘ
surface form:
Memphis, Tennessee
Tennessee ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| locatedNear |
Memphis
ⓘ
surface form:
downtown Memphis
|
| locatedOn | Mississippi River ⓘ |
| material |
glass
ⓘ
steel ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
glass-paneled exterior
ⓘ
indoor cypress swamp ⓘ observation deck overlooking Mississippi River ⓘ |
| openedAsArena | 1991 ⓘ |
| operator | Bass Pro Shops ⓘ |
| owner |
Memphis
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Memphis
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| partOf |
Memphis
ⓘ
surface form:
Memphis riverfront
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| primaryUse |
entertainment venue
ⓘ
sports venue ⓘ |
| region | Shelby County, Tennessee ⓘ |
| reopenedAfterRenovation | 2015 ⓘ |
| seatingCapacityAsArena | around 20,000 ⓘ |
| shape | pyramid ⓘ |
| significance | iconic symbol of Memphis skyline ⓘ |
| state | Tennessee ⓘ |
| usedFor |
basketball games
ⓘ
concerts ⓘ conventions ⓘ |
| wasHomeArenaOf |
Memphis Grizzlies
ⓘ
Memphis Tigers ⓘ
surface form:
Memphis Tigers men's basketball team
|
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: Great American Pyramid Description of subject: The Great American Pyramid is a distinctive pyramid-shaped arena and landmark in Memphis, Tennessee, originally built as a sports and entertainment venue and later converted into a Bass Pro Shops megastore and tourist attraction.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Pyramid (Memphis)