Memorial Stadium
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Memorial Stadium is the primary football stadium of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, known for hosting the Illinois Fighting Illini home games.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Memorial Stadium canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T144529 — 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: Memorial Stadium Context triple: [University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, hasFacility, Memorial Stadium]
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A.
Reser Stadium
Reser Stadium is the primary football stadium and home field of the Oregon State Beavers in Corvallis, Oregon.
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B.
SHI Stadium
SHI Stadium is a college football stadium that serves as the home field for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights.
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C.
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium is a major outdoor football stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, best known as the longtime home of the annual Liberty Bowl college football game.
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D.
Michie Stadium
Michie Stadium is an outdoor football stadium at the United States Military Academy at West Point, best known as the historic home field of the Army Black Knights football team.
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E.
Soldier Field
Soldier Field is a historic outdoor stadium in Chicago best known as the longtime home of the NFL’s Chicago Bears and a prominent venue for major sports and entertainment 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: Memorial Stadium Target entity description: Memorial Stadium is the primary football stadium of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, known for hosting the Illinois Fighting Illini home games.
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A.
Reser Stadium
Reser Stadium is the primary football stadium and home field of the Oregon State Beavers in Corvallis, Oregon.
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B.
SHI Stadium
SHI Stadium is a college football stadium that serves as the home field for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights.
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C.
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium is a major outdoor football stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, best known as the longtime home of the annual Liberty Bowl college football game.
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D.
Michie Stadium
Michie Stadium is an outdoor football stadium at the United States Military Academy at West Point, best known as the historic home field of the Army Black Knights football team.
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E.
Soldier Field
Soldier Field is a historic outdoor stadium in Chicago best known as the longtime home of the NFL’s Chicago Bears and a prominent venue for major sports and entertainment events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college football stadium
ⓘ
outdoor stadium ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | horseshoe-shaped bowl ⓘ |
| brokeGroundOn | 1922 ⓘ |
| campusFacilityOf | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| conference | Big Ten Conference ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| dedicatedOn | 1924 ⓘ |
| hasAccess |
campus bus service
ⓘ
public road access ⓘ |
| hasCapacityType | seated spectators ⓘ |
| hasEventType |
college football games
ⓘ
concerts (occasional) ⓘ high school football games (occasional) ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
club seating
ⓘ
luxury suites ⓘ memorial columns listing names of fallen soldiers ⓘ press box ⓘ |
| hasLighting | stadium lights for night games ⓘ |
| hasNickname | The House That Red Grange Built ⓘ |
| hasScoreboard | video scoreboard ⓘ |
| hasSeatingType | bleacher seating ⓘ |
| hasStatueNearby | Red Grange statue ⓘ |
| hasSurface |
artificial turf
ⓘ
natural grass (historical) ⓘ |
| hasUseDuringSeason | college football season ⓘ |
| homeVenueOf | Illinois Fighting Illini football team ⓘ |
| isOutdoor | true ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
University of Illinois Division of Intercollegiate Athletics
ⓘ
surface form:
Illinois Fighting Illini athletic facilities
|
| isVenueFor | Big Ten Conference football games ⓘ |
| league |
Football Bowl Subdivision
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I FBS
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| locatedIn |
Champaign, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Champaign, Illinois
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ
surface form:
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign campus
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | war memorial ⓘ |
| namedFor | University of Illinois students and alumni who died in World War I ⓘ |
| officialName | Memorial Stadium ⓘ |
| openedOn | 1923 ⓘ |
| operator | University of Illinois Division of Intercollegiate Athletics ⓘ |
| ownedBy | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| primaryUse | Illinois Fighting Illini home football games ⓘ |
| tenant |
Illinois Fighting Illini football team
ⓘ
surface form:
Illinois Fighting Illini
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| underwentRenovation |
2000s
ⓘ
2010s ⓘ |
| usedFor |
American football
ⓘ
college football ⓘ |
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: Memorial Stadium Description of subject: Memorial Stadium is the primary football stadium of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, known for hosting the Illinois Fighting Illini home games.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Illinois Fighting Illini