Ottawa Convention Centre
E160229
The Ottawa Convention Centre, now known as the Shaw Centre, is a major convention and event facility located in downtown Ottawa, Canada.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ottawa Convention Centre canonical | 3 |
| Ottawa Congress Centre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1359413 — 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: Ottawa Convention Centre Context triple: [Shaw Centre, formerName, Ottawa Convention Centre]
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A.
Ottawa City Hall
Ottawa City Hall is the main municipal government complex in Ottawa, Ontario, housing the city's administrative offices and council chambers.
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B.
Canada Place
Canada Place is a prominent office and retail complex in London's Canary Wharf financial district, known for its modern architecture and integration with major transport links and shopping areas.
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C.
Ontario Legislative Building
The Ontario Legislative Building is a historic Romanesque Revival structure in Toronto that serves as the seat of Ontario’s provincial government.
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D.
Parliament Hill
Parliament Hill is the iconic political and cultural heart of Canada in Ottawa, housing the country’s main federal legislative buildings and serving as a symbol of Canadian democracy.
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E.
Senate of Canada Building
The Senate of Canada Building is a historic Beaux-Arts structure in downtown Ottawa that now serves as the temporary home of Canada’s Senate chamber and related parliamentary functions.
- 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: Ottawa Convention Centre Target entity description: The Ottawa Convention Centre, now known as the Shaw Centre, is a major convention and event facility located in downtown Ottawa, Canada.
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A.
Ottawa City Hall
Ottawa City Hall is the main municipal government complex in Ottawa, Ontario, housing the city's administrative offices and council chambers.
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B.
Canada Place
Canada Place is a prominent office and retail complex in London's Canary Wharf financial district, known for its modern architecture and integration with major transport links and shopping areas.
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C.
Ontario Legislative Building
The Ontario Legislative Building is a historic Romanesque Revival structure in Toronto that serves as the seat of Ontario’s provincial government.
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D.
Parliament Hill
Parliament Hill is the iconic political and cultural heart of Canada in Ottawa, housing the country’s main federal legislative buildings and serving as a symbol of Canadian democracy.
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E.
Senate of Canada Building
The Senate of Canada Building is a historic Beaux-Arts structure in downtown Ottawa that now serves as the temporary home of Canada’s Senate chamber and related parliamentary functions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
convention centre
ⓘ
event venue ⓘ |
| cityServed | National Capital Region ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| currentNameOf | Ottawa Convention Centre self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Shaw Centre ⓘ |
| hasAccessibility |
pedestrian access from downtown
ⓘ
public transit access ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
ballrooms
ⓘ
exhibition halls ⓘ glass façade ⓘ meeting rooms ⓘ views of Parliament Hill ⓘ views of Rideau Canal ⓘ views of downtown Ottawa ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
hosts banquets
ⓘ
hosts conferences ⓘ hosts conventions ⓘ hosts corporate events ⓘ hosts exhibitions ⓘ hosts meetings ⓘ hosts trade shows ⓘ |
| hasUse |
government-related events
ⓘ
international conferences ⓘ local community events ⓘ national conventions ⓘ tourism-related events ⓘ |
| locatedAtIntersection |
Colonel By Drive
ⓘ
Rideau Street ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ontario
ⓘ
Ottawa ⓘ downtown Ottawa ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
ByWard Market
ⓘ
Parliament Hill ⓘ Rideau Canal ⓘ |
| near |
ByWard Market
ⓘ
surface form:
ByWard Market district
Government Conference Centre ⓘ National Arts Centre ⓘ Rideau Centre ⓘ
surface form:
Rideau Centre shopping mall
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| openingDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| overlooks | Rideau Canal ⓘ |
| ownedBy | public sector stakeholders ⓘ |
| region | National Capital Region of Canada ⓘ |
| replaced |
Ottawa Convention Centre
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Ottawa Congress Centre
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| servesAs | major convention facility for Ottawa ⓘ |
| successor | Ottawa Convention Centre self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: Ottawa Convention Centre Description of subject: The Ottawa Convention Centre, now known as the Shaw Centre, is a major convention and event facility located in downtown Ottawa, Canada.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shaw Centre
this entity surface form:
Ottawa Congress Centre
subject surface form:
Ottawa Congress Centre