Hancock Stadium
E426833
Hancock Stadium is an outdoor football stadium on the campus of Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, primarily serving as the home field for the Redbirds football team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hancock Stadium canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4284390 — 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: Hancock Stadium Context triple: [Normal, Illinois, hasSportsFacility, Hancock Stadium]
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A.
Peninsula Stadium
Peninsula Stadium is a football ground in Salford, England, best known as the home venue of Salford City FC.
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B.
Civic Stadium
Civic Stadium was a major athletic venue in Hamilton, Ontario, best known for hosting the track and field events of the 1930 British Empire Games and later serving as a prominent Canadian football stadium.
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C.
Rich Stadium
Rich Stadium is a football stadium in Orchard Park, New York, best known as the longtime home venue of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills.
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D.
Reser Stadium
Reser Stadium is the primary football stadium and home field of the Oregon State Beavers in Corvallis, Oregon.
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E.
Pitt Stadium
Pitt Stadium was a historic outdoor football venue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that primarily served as the longtime home field of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers and also hosted early home games for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
- 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: Hancock Stadium Target entity description: Hancock Stadium is an outdoor football stadium on the campus of Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, primarily serving as the home field for the Redbirds football team.
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A.
Peninsula Stadium
Peninsula Stadium is a football ground in Salford, England, best known as the home venue of Salford City FC.
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B.
Civic Stadium
Civic Stadium was a major athletic venue in Hamilton, Ontario, best known for hosting the track and field events of the 1930 British Empire Games and later serving as a prominent Canadian football stadium.
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C.
Rich Stadium
Rich Stadium is a football stadium in Orchard Park, New York, best known as the longtime home venue of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills.
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D.
Reser Stadium
Reser Stadium is the primary football stadium and home field of the Oregon State Beavers in Corvallis, Oregon.
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E.
Pitt Stadium
Pitt Stadium was a historic outdoor football venue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that primarily served as the longtime home field of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers and also hosted early home games for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American football venue
ⓘ
college football stadium ⓘ stadium ⓘ |
| city | Normal ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasLighting | stadium lights ⓘ |
| hasScoreboard | yes ⓘ |
| hasSeatingType | bleacher seating ⓘ |
| homeStadiumOf |
Illinois State Redbirds
ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois State Redbirds football team
Illinois State Redbirds football team ⓘ |
| isOutdoor | true ⓘ |
| locatedOnCampusOf | Illinois State University ⓘ |
| location | Normal, Illinois ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Clarence R. Hancock ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Illinois State University ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Illinois State University ⓘ |
| partOf | Illinois State University athletics facilities ⓘ |
| primaryUse | home games of Illinois State Redbirds football team ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| surface | artificial turf ⓘ |
| tenant | Illinois State Redbirds football team ⓘ |
| usedFor |
college football
ⓘ
commencement ceremonies ⓘ concerts ⓘ university athletics events ⓘ |
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: Hancock Stadium Description of subject: Hancock Stadium is an outdoor football stadium on the campus of Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, primarily serving as the home field for the Redbirds football team.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.