Heysel Stadium
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Heysel Stadium was a major sports venue in Brussels, Belgium, best known as the site of the 1985 European Cup Final and the tragic disaster that led to significant reforms in football stadium safety.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Heysel Stadium canonical | 6 |
| Heysel sports complex | 1 |
| Heyselstadion | 1 |
| Palais du Heysel | 1 |
| Stade du Heysel | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2625292 — 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: Heysel Stadium Context triple: [Heysel Stadium disaster, location, Heysel Stadium]
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Heysel Stadium disaster
The Heysel Stadium disaster was a 1985 football tragedy in Brussels, where crowd violence and a stadium wall collapse before the European Cup final led to 39 deaths and prompted a long ban on English clubs from European competitions.
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Hillsborough Stadium
Hillsborough Stadium is a historic football ground in Sheffield, England, best known as the home of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. and as the site of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.
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Soevereinstadion
Soevereinstadion is a football stadium in Lommel, Belgium, primarily used for hosting the home matches of Lommel SK.
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D.
Olympia Stadium
Olympia Stadium was a historic indoor arena in Detroit, Michigan, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings and a major venue for sports and entertainment events in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Millerntor-Stadion
Millerntor-Stadion is a football stadium in Hamburg, Germany, known for its passionate atmosphere and association with the left-leaning, cult club FC St. Pauli.
- 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: Heysel Stadium Target entity description: Heysel Stadium was a major sports venue in Brussels, Belgium, best known as the site of the 1985 European Cup Final and the tragic disaster that led to significant reforms in football stadium safety.
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A.
Heysel Stadium disaster
The Heysel Stadium disaster was a 1985 football tragedy in Brussels, where crowd violence and a stadium wall collapse before the European Cup final led to 39 deaths and prompted a long ban on English clubs from European competitions.
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B.
Hillsborough Stadium
Hillsborough Stadium is a historic football ground in Sheffield, England, best known as the home of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. and as the site of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.
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C.
Soevereinstadion
Soevereinstadion is a football stadium in Lommel, Belgium, primarily used for hosting the home matches of Lommel SK.
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D.
Olympia Stadium
Olympia Stadium was a historic indoor arena in Detroit, Michigan, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings and a major venue for sports and entertainment events in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Millerntor-Stadion
Millerntor-Stadion is a football stadium in Hamburg, Germany, known for its passionate atmosphere and association with the left-leaning, cult club FC St. Pauli.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Heysel Stadium Description of subject: Heysel Stadium was a major sports venue in Brussels, Belgium, best known as the site of the 1985 European Cup Final and the tragic disaster that led to significant reforms in football stadium safety.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Palais du Heysel
this entity surface form:
Heysel sports complex
this entity surface form:
Stade du Heysel
this entity surface form:
Heyselstadion