Blue Cross Arena
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Blue Cross Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in Rochester, New York, best known as the longtime home of the AHL’s Rochester Americans hockey team.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blue Cross Arena canonical | 6 |
| Blue Cross Arena (management/operating interest via PSE) | 1 |
| Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4189436 — 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: Blue Cross Arena Context triple: [Rochester Americans, homeArena, Blue Cross Arena]
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Allstate Arena
Allstate Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Rosemont, Illinois, known for hosting professional basketball, hockey, concerts, and other large-scale events.
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Uline Arena
Uline Arena is a historic indoor venue in Washington, D.C., best known for hosting early professional basketball games and notable cultural events, including The Beatles’ first U.S. concert.
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St. Paul Civic Center
St. Paul Civic Center was a former multi-purpose arena in Saint Paul, Minnesota, that hosted sports events and concerts before being demolished to make way for the Xcel Energy Center.
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State Farm Arena
State Farm Arena is a major indoor sports and entertainment venue in downtown Atlanta, best known as the home arena of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and a host site for concerts and large events.
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Nationwide Arena
Nationwide Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Columbus, Ohio, best known as the home venue of the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Blue Cross Arena Target entity description: Blue Cross Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in Rochester, New York, best known as the longtime home of the AHL’s Rochester Americans hockey team.
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A.
Allstate Arena
Allstate Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Rosemont, Illinois, known for hosting professional basketball, hockey, concerts, and other large-scale events.
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B.
Uline Arena
Uline Arena is a historic indoor venue in Washington, D.C., best known for hosting early professional basketball games and notable cultural events, including The Beatles’ first U.S. concert.
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C.
St. Paul Civic Center
St. Paul Civic Center was a former multi-purpose arena in Saint Paul, Minnesota, that hosted sports events and concerts before being demolished to make way for the Xcel Energy Center.
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D.
State Farm Arena
State Farm Arena is a major indoor sports and entertainment venue in downtown Atlanta, best known as the home arena of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and a host site for concerts and large events.
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E.
Nationwide Arena
Nationwide Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Columbus, Ohio, best known as the home venue of the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entertainment venue
ⓘ
indoor arena ⓘ multi-purpose arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| category |
Indoor arenas in New York (state)
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Indoor ice hockey venues in New York (state) ⓘ Music venues in New York (state) ⓘ Sports venues in Rochester, New York ⓘ |
| cityServed | Rochester metropolitan area ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| formerName |
Rochester Community War Memorial
ⓘ
linked to:
Rochester War Memorial
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| hasFeature |
club seating
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concession stands ⓘ locker rooms ⓘ luxury suites ⓘ press box ⓘ video boards ⓘ |
| hasIceSurface | NHL-sized rink ⓘ |
| hasParking | adjacent parking garage ⓘ |
| hasScoreboard | center-hung scoreboard ⓘ |
| hasSeatingCapacity | approximately 10,000 ⓘ |
| hasSurface | multi-surface ⓘ |
| homeArenaOf | Rochester Americans ⓘ |
| leagueOfPrimaryTenant | American Hockey League ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Monroe County, New York
ⓘ
New York (state) ⓘ
linked to:
New York
Rochester, New York ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| namedAfter | Excellus BlueCross BlueShield ⓘ |
| near | Genesee River ⓘ |
| notableFor | longtime home of the AHL’s Rochester Americans ⓘ |
| opened | 1955 ⓘ |
| operator | Pegula Sports and Entertainment ⓘ |
| owner |
City of Rochester
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linked to:
Rochester, New York
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| primaryTenantSince | Rochester Americans since 1956 ⓘ |
| primaryUse | professional ice hockey ⓘ |
| renovated |
1998
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2018 ⓘ |
| situatedOn | Exchange Boulevard ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| tenant | Rochester Americans ⓘ |
| usedFor |
basketball
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concerts ⓘ conventions ⓘ entertainment events ⓘ family shows ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ lacrosse ⓘ |
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: Blue Cross Arena Description of subject: Blue Cross Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment venue in Rochester, New York, best known as the longtime home of the AHL’s Rochester Americans hockey team.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.