The Old Aud
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The Old Aud was a historic indoor arena in Buffalo, New York, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres and numerous major sports and entertainment events.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Old Aud canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4296029 — 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: The Old Aud Context triple: [Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, hasNickname, The Old Aud]
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A.
The Grand Old Lady
The Grand Old Lady was the affectionate nickname of HMS Warspite, a famed British Royal Navy battleship renowned for her long and distinguished combat service in both World Wars.
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B.
The Ear
The Ear is a distinctive rock formation on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, serving as a notable feature along the Salathé Wall climbing route.
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C.
Old Q
Old Q was the popular nickname of William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, an 18th-century Scottish nobleman notorious in London society for his immense wealth, gambling, and libertine lifestyle.
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D.
Old Pete
Old Pete is the famous nickname of Confederate General James Longstreet, one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders during the American Civil War.
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E.
Old Pete
Old Pete was the nickname of Grover Cleveland Alexander, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher renowned as one of the greatest right-handed pitchers in the sport’s history.
- 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: The Old Aud Target entity description: The Old Aud was a historic indoor arena in Buffalo, New York, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres and numerous major sports and entertainment events.
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A.
The Grand Old Lady
The Grand Old Lady was the affectionate nickname of HMS Warspite, a famed British Royal Navy battleship renowned for her long and distinguished combat service in both World Wars.
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B.
The Ear
The Ear is a distinctive rock formation on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, serving as a notable feature along the Salathé Wall climbing route.
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C.
Old Q
Old Q was the popular nickname of William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, an 18th-century Scottish nobleman notorious in London society for his immense wealth, gambling, and libertine lifestyle.
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D.
Old Pete
Old Pete is the famous nickname of Confederate General James Longstreet, one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders during the American Civil War.
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E.
Old Pete
Old Pete was the nickname of Grover Cleveland Alexander, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher renowned as one of the greatest right-handed pitchers in the sport’s history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entertainment venue
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indoor arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
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The Aud ⓘ |
| associatedTeam | Buffalo Sabres ⓘ |
| cityServed |
Buffalo metropolitan area
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linked to:
Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| heritageStatus | historic arena ⓘ |
| hostedEventType |
basketball games
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boxing events ⓘ concerts ⓘ family entertainment shows ⓘ professional ice hockey games ⓘ wrestling events ⓘ |
| leagueHosted | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Buffalo, New York
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linked to:
Buffalo
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| notableFor |
hosting numerous major entertainment events
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hosting numerous major sports events ⓘ |
| notableUse | home arena of the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres ⓘ |
| primarySport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| primaryTenant | Buffalo Sabres ⓘ |
| region | Western New York ⓘ |
| servedAs |
major regional entertainment venue
ⓘ
major regional sports venue ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| status | demolished ⓘ |
| usedFor |
indoor sports
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large-scale public 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: The Old Aud Description of subject: The Old Aud was a historic indoor arena in Buffalo, New York, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres and numerous major sports and entertainment events.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.