Baltimore Civic Center
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The Baltimore Civic Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, historically used for professional basketball, concerts, and major civic events.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Baltimore Arena | 5 |
| Baltimore Civic Center canonical | 4 |
| Baltimore Civic Center (original name) | 1 |
| Baltimore Veterans Memorial Coliseum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4966991 — 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: Baltimore Civic Center Context triple: [Baltimore Claws, homeArena, Baltimore Civic Center]
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A.
Baltimore Convention Center
The Baltimore Convention Center is a major multi-purpose convention and exhibition facility located in downtown Baltimore, Maryland.
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B.
Baltimore Coliseum
The Baltimore Coliseum was an indoor sports arena in Baltimore, Maryland, best known as an early home venue for professional basketball and other major events in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Baltimore City Hall
Baltimore City Hall is the historic government building in downtown Baltimore that houses the offices of the city's mayor and other municipal officials.
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D.
Bessemer Civic Center
The Bessemer Civic Center is a multi-purpose event and convention venue serving as a hub for community, cultural, and entertainment activities in Bessemer, Alabama.
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E.
Capital Centre
Capital Centre was a now-demolished indoor sports and entertainment arena in Landover, Maryland, that once hosted the Washington Capitals and Washington Bullets.
- 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: Baltimore Civic Center Target entity description: The Baltimore Civic Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, historically used for professional basketball, concerts, and major civic events.
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A.
Baltimore Convention Center
The Baltimore Convention Center is a major multi-purpose convention and exhibition facility located in downtown Baltimore, Maryland.
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B.
Baltimore Coliseum
The Baltimore Coliseum was an indoor sports arena in Baltimore, Maryland, best known as an early home venue for professional basketball and other major events in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Baltimore City Hall
Baltimore City Hall is the historic government building in downtown Baltimore that houses the offices of the city's mayor and other municipal officials.
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D.
Bessemer Civic Center
The Bessemer Civic Center is a multi-purpose event and convention venue serving as a hub for community, cultural, and entertainment activities in Bessemer, Alabama.
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E.
Capital Centre
Capital Centre was a now-demolished indoor sports and entertainment arena in Landover, Maryland, that once hosted the Washington Capitals and Washington Bullets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concert venue
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indoor arena ⓘ multi-purpose arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| category |
1962 establishments in Maryland
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Basketball venues in Maryland ⓘ Indoor arenas in Maryland ⓘ Music venues in Maryland ⓘ Sports venues in Baltimore ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerName |
Baltimore Arena
ⓘ
linked to:
Baltimore Civic Center
Baltimore Civic Center (original name) ⓘ
linked to:
Baltimore Civic Center
Baltimore Veterans Memorial Coliseum ⓘ
linked to:
Baltimore Civic Center
|
| hasSurface | multi-surface ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
NBA games
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NCAA basketball games ⓘ NHL games ⓘ WCW events ⓘ WWE events ⓘ country music concerts ⓘ graduation ceremonies ⓘ major rock concerts ⓘ political conventions ⓘ professional boxing matches ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Baltimore
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Maryland ⓘ downtown Baltimore ⓘ |
| opened | 1962 ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
City of Baltimore
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linked to:
Baltimore
|
| ownedBy |
City of Baltimore
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linked to:
Baltimore
|
| renovated |
1980s
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2000s ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity | approximately 12,000 ⓘ |
| tenant |
Baltimore Blast (original MISL)
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linked to:
Baltimore Blast
Baltimore Bullets ⓘ Baltimore Clippers ⓘ Baltimore Skipjacks ⓘ |
| usedFor |
circuses
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civic events ⓘ concerts ⓘ conventions ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ indoor soccer ⓘ political rallies ⓘ professional basketball ⓘ professional wrestling ⓘ |
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: Baltimore Civic Center Description of subject: The Baltimore Civic Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, historically used for professional basketball, concerts, and major civic events.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Baltimore Civic Center
linked to: Baltimore Civic Center
linked to: Baltimore Civic Center
linked to: Baltimore Civic Center
linked to: Baltimore Civic Center
subject linked to:
Baltimore Blast (former MISL tenant)
linked to: Baltimore Civic Center
subject linked to:
Baltimore Blast (former MISL tenant)
linked to: Baltimore Civic Center