Williams Arena
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Williams Arena is a historic college basketball venue on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis, best known for hosting the Minnesota Golden Gophers and its distinctive raised playing floor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Williams Arena canonical | 5 |
| Williams Arena–Sports Pavilion complex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2191751 — 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)
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Target entity: Williams Arena Context triple: [Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball, homeArena, Williams Arena]
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A.
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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B.
Uline Arena
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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C.
Joe Louis Arena
Joe Louis Arena was a famed indoor ice hockey venue in Detroit, Michigan, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings and host to numerous major sporting and entertainment events.
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D.
Amalie Arena
Amalie Arena is a major indoor sports and entertainment venue in downtown Tampa, Florida, best known as the home arena of the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning and a host site for concerts and large events.
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E.
Cox Arena
Cox Arena was the former name of the on-campus multipurpose sports and entertainment arena at San Diego State University, now known as Viejas Arena.
- 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: Williams Arena Target entity description: Williams Arena is a historic college basketball venue on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis, best known for hosting the Minnesota Golden Gophers and its distinctive raised playing floor.
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A.
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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B.
Uline Arena
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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C.
Joe Louis Arena
Joe Louis Arena was a famed indoor ice hockey venue in Detroit, Michigan, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings and host to numerous major sporting and entertainment events.
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D.
Amalie Arena
Amalie Arena is a major indoor sports and entertainment venue in downtown Tampa, Florida, best known as the home arena of the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning and a host site for concerts and large events.
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E.
Cox Arena
Cox Arena was the former name of the on-campus multipurpose sports and entertainment arena at San Diego State University, now known as Viejas Arena.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
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college basketball venue ⓘ indoor arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Barn ⓘ |
| city | Minneapolis ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| hasFeature |
arched roof
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barn-like design ⓘ raised court ⓘ raised playing floor ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Minneapolis
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surface form:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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| locatedOnCampusOf | University of Minnesota ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive raised playing surface
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historic college basketball atmosphere ⓘ longtime home of Minnesota Golden Gophers basketball ⓘ |
| operatedBy | University of Minnesota ⓘ |
| ownedBy | University of Minnesota ⓘ |
| partOf |
University of Minnesota
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surface form:
University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus
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| sport |
basketball
ⓘ
volleyball ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| tenant |
Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball
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Minnesota Golden Gophers ⓘ
surface form:
Minnesota Golden Gophers volleyball
Minnesota Golden Gophers ⓘ
surface form:
Minnesota Golden Gophers women's basketball
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| usedFor |
Minnesota Golden Gophers home games
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NCAA basketball games ⓘ college basketball games ⓘ concerts ⓘ special events ⓘ |
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: Williams Arena Description of subject: Williams Arena is a historic college basketball venue on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis, best known for hosting the Minnesota Golden Gophers and its distinctive raised playing floor.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Williams Arena–Sports Pavilion complex