Matthews Arena
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Matthews Arena is a historic multi-purpose sports venue in Boston, Massachusetts, known as one of the oldest indoor ice hockey and basketball arenas still in use.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matthews Arena canonical | 9 |
| Boston Arena | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2950237 — 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: Matthews Arena Context triple: [Northeastern Huskies men's basketball, homeArena, Matthews Arena]
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A.
Matthew Knight Arena
Matthew Knight Arena is a modern indoor sports and entertainment venue in Eugene, Oregon, serving as the home court for the University of Oregon Ducks basketball teams.
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Capital One Arena
Capital One Arena is a major indoor sports and entertainment venue in Washington, D.C., best known as the home of the NHL’s Washington Capitals.
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C.
Lynah Rink
Lynah Rink is an iconic on-campus ice hockey arena at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, renowned for its intense atmosphere and passionate college hockey crowds.
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D.
Thompson Arena
Thompson Arena is an ice hockey venue on the campus of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, known for hosting Dartmouth’s collegiate hockey games and other ice events.
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TD Garden
TD Garden is a major multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the home venue of the NBA's Boston Celtics and the NHL's Boston Bruins.
- 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: Matthews Arena Target entity description: Matthews Arena is a historic multi-purpose sports venue in Boston, Massachusetts, known as one of the oldest indoor ice hockey and basketball arenas still in use.
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A.
Matthew Knight Arena
Matthew Knight Arena is a modern indoor sports and entertainment venue in Eugene, Oregon, serving as the home court for the University of Oregon Ducks basketball teams.
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B.
Capital One Arena
Capital One Arena is a major indoor sports and entertainment venue in Washington, D.C., best known as the home of the NHL’s Washington Capitals.
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C.
Lynah Rink
Lynah Rink is an iconic on-campus ice hockey arena at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, renowned for its intense atmosphere and passionate college hockey crowds.
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D.
Thompson Arena
Thompson Arena is an ice hockey venue on the campus of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, known for hosting Dartmouth’s collegiate hockey games and other ice events.
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E.
TD Garden
TD Garden is a major multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the home venue of the NBA's Boston Celtics and the NHL's Boston Bruins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
basketball venue
ⓘ
ice hockey venue ⓘ indoor arena ⓘ multi-purpose arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| category |
College basketball venues in the United States
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College ice hockey venues in the United States ⓘ Indoor ice hockey venues in Massachusetts ⓘ Northeastern Huskies sports venues ⓘ Sports venues in Boston ⓘ |
| city |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerName |
Matthews Arena
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Boston Arena
|
| hasFunction | multi-purpose sports and events facility ⓘ |
| hasSeatingType | indoor seating ⓘ |
| hasSport |
basketball
ⓘ
ice hockey ⓘ other indoor sports ⓘ |
| historicDesignation | historic sports venue ⓘ |
| isOneOf |
oldest indoor ice hockey arenas still in use
ⓘ
oldest multi-purpose athletic buildings in use ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northeastern University
ⓘ
surface form:
Northeastern University campus
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| location |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
|
| name | Matthews Arena self-link ⓘ |
| namedAfter | George J. Matthews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighborhood | Fenway–Kenmore ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the oldest basketball arenas still in use
ⓘ
being one of the oldest indoor ice hockey arenas still in use ⓘ |
| opened | 1910 ⓘ |
| openingDate | April 25, 1910 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Northeastern University ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Northeastern University ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
basketball
ⓘ
ice hockey ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| renovated | multiple times ⓘ |
| surface | ice rink ⓘ |
| tenants |
Northeastern Huskies men's basketball
ⓘ
Northeastern Huskies men's ice hockey ⓘ Northeastern Huskies ⓘ
surface form:
Northeastern Huskies women's basketball
Northeastern Huskies women's ice hockey ⓘ |
| usedFor |
college basketball games
ⓘ
college ice hockey games ⓘ concerts ⓘ other indoor events ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Matthews Arena Description of subject: Matthews Arena is a historic multi-purpose sports venue in Boston, Massachusetts, known as one of the oldest indoor ice hockey and basketball arenas still in use.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Northeastern Huskies
subject surface form:
Northeastern Huskies
this entity surface form:
Boston Arena
this entity surface form:
Boston Arena