San Francisco Civic Auditorium
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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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Graham Civic Auditorium | 7 |
| San Francisco Civic Auditorium canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4258 — 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 Civic Auditorium Context triple: [1968 Mother of All Demos, venue, San Francisco Civic Auditorium]
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A.
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is a major multidisciplinary performance venue on the University of Pennsylvania campus, known for presenting theater, dance, music, and innovative contemporary works.
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B.
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a world-renowned concert venue in New York City celebrated for its exceptional acoustics and historic role in classical and popular music performance.
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C.
Gill Coliseum
Gill Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, primarily serving as the home venue for the university’s basketball and other athletic programs.
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D.
California State Capitol
The California State Capitol is the historic government building in Sacramento that houses the chambers and offices of the state's legislative and executive branches.
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E.
Opera House
The Opera House is a principal performance venue within the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., primarily hosting opera, ballet, and other large-scale theatrical productions.
- 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 Civic Auditorium Target entity description: 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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A.
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is a major multidisciplinary performance venue on the University of Pennsylvania campus, known for presenting theater, dance, music, and innovative contemporary works.
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B.
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a world-renowned concert venue in New York City celebrated for its exceptional acoustics and historic role in classical and popular music performance.
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C.
Gill Coliseum
Gill Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, primarily serving as the home venue for the university’s basketball and other athletic programs.
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D.
California State Capitol
The California State Capitol is the historic government building in Sacramento that houses the chambers and offices of the state's legislative and executive branches.
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E.
Opera House
The Opera House is a principal performance venue within the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., primarily hosting opera, ballet, and other large-scale theatrical productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
auditorium
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concert hall ⓘ event venue ⓘ indoor arena ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
San Francisco Civic Auditorium
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surface form:
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
|
| architect |
Frederick H. Meyer
ⓘ
John Galen Howard ⓘ John Reid Jr. ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| builtFor | Panama–Pacific International Exposition ⓘ |
| city | San Francisco ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| historic | true ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
Apple product launches
ⓘ
Democratic National Convention ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic National Convention 1920 rallies
Democratic National Convention ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic National Convention 1920 sessions
Google developer events ⓘ benefit concerts ⓘ civic rallies ⓘ electronic music concerts ⓘ political speeches ⓘ rock concerts ⓘ technology demonstrations ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Civic Center, San Francisco ⓘ San Francisco City Hall ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco City Hall complex
|
| location | San Francisco ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Bill Graham ⓘ |
| near |
San Francisco City Hall
ⓘ
San Francisco War Memorial Opera House ⓘ |
| notableFor |
computing history demonstrations
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major cultural events ⓘ major political events ⓘ major technological events ⓘ |
| opened | 1915 ⓘ |
| operator |
San Francisco County
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surface form:
City and County of San Francisco
|
| 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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| seatingCapacity | approximately 8,500 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
civic events
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concerts ⓘ conventions ⓘ graduation ceremonies ⓘ political events ⓘ sporting events ⓘ technology conferences ⓘ trade shows ⓘ |
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: San Francisco Civic Auditorium Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
this entity surface form:
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
this entity surface form:
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
this entity surface form:
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
subject surface form:
Civic Center/UN Plaza station
this entity surface form:
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
this entity surface form:
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
this entity surface form:
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium