Merrill Auditorium
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Merrill Auditorium is a prominent performing arts venue in downtown Portland, Maine, known for hosting concerts, theater productions, and other cultural events.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Merrill Auditorium canonical | 5 |
| Portland Merrill Auditorium | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2986954 — 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: Merrill Auditorium Context triple: [Congress Street, Portland, Maine, hasLandmark, Merrill Auditorium]
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A.
Keller Auditorium
Keller Auditorium is a major performing arts venue in downtown Portland, Oregon, hosting Broadway tours, concerts, and other large-scale cultural events.
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B.
Foster Auditorium
Foster Auditorium is a historic building on the University of Alabama campus, best known as the site of Governor George Wallace’s 1963 attempt to block the enrollment of Black students in the infamous "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" incident.
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C.
Miller Auditorium
Miller Auditorium is a major performing arts venue in Kalamazoo, Michigan, hosting concerts, Broadway tours, and other large-scale cultural events.
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D.
Laxson Auditorium
Laxson Auditorium is a historic performing arts venue on the California State University, Chico campus that hosts concerts, theater productions, lectures, and cultural events.
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E.
Remis Auditorium
Remis Auditorium is a performance and lecture venue located within the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, used for films, talks, and cultural events.
- 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: Merrill Auditorium Target entity description: Merrill Auditorium is a prominent performing arts venue in downtown Portland, Maine, known for hosting concerts, theater productions, and other cultural events.
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A.
Keller Auditorium
Keller Auditorium is a major performing arts venue in downtown Portland, Oregon, hosting Broadway tours, concerts, and other large-scale cultural events.
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B.
Foster Auditorium
Foster Auditorium is a historic building on the University of Alabama campus, best known as the site of Governor George Wallace’s 1963 attempt to block the enrollment of Black students in the infamous "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" incident.
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C.
Miller Auditorium
Miller Auditorium is a major performing arts venue in Kalamazoo, Michigan, hosting concerts, Broadway tours, and other large-scale cultural events.
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D.
Laxson Auditorium
Laxson Auditorium is a historic performing arts venue on the California State University, Chico campus that hosts concerts, theater productions, lectures, and cultural events.
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E.
Remis Auditorium
Remis Auditorium is a performance and lecture venue located within the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, used for films, talks, and cultural events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concert hall
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performing arts venue ⓘ theatre building ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Portland, Maine
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Music venues in Maine ⓘ Theatres in Maine ⓘ Tourist attractions in Portland, Maine ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasAccessibility | wheelchair accessible seating ⓘ |
| hasEventType |
Broadway-style shows
ⓘ
choral performances ⓘ classical music concerts ⓘ comedy shows ⓘ family shows ⓘ local theatre productions ⓘ organ recitals ⓘ popular music concerts ⓘ touring productions ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
balcony seating
ⓘ
box office ⓘ orchestra pit ⓘ stage ⓘ |
| hasFunction | performing arts center ⓘ |
| hasOrgan | Kotzschmar Memorial Organ ⓘ |
| hasResident |
Oregon Symphony
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surface form:
Portland Symphony Orchestra
|
| hasSeatingType | indoor seating ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | official website of Merrill Auditorium ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Portland, Maine
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
downtown Portland, Maine ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Merrill (namesake associated with Portland, Maine) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Kotzschmar Memorial Organ
ⓘ
hosting the Portland Symphony Orchestra ⓘ |
| operator |
Portland, Maine, United States
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surface form:
City of Portland, Maine
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| ownedBy |
Portland, Maine, United States
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surface form:
City of Portland, Maine
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| partOf |
Portland City Hall
ⓘ
surface form:
Portland City Hall complex
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| publicTransitAccess | served by Portland, Maine public transportation ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| significance | major cultural venue in Portland, Maine ⓘ |
| style | historic ⓘ |
| usedFor |
community events
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concerts ⓘ cultural events ⓘ dance performances ⓘ lectures ⓘ theatre productions ⓘ |
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: Merrill Auditorium Description of subject: Merrill Auditorium is a prominent performing arts venue in downtown Portland, Maine, known for hosting concerts, theater productions, and other cultural events.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Portland Merrill Auditorium