Maracanãzinho
E549795
Maracanãzinho is an iconic indoor arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, renowned for hosting major international volleyball and basketball events.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maracanãzinho canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5867086 — 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: Maracanãzinho Context triple: [1954 FIBA World Championship, venue, Maracanãzinho]
-
A.
Tostão
Tostão is a legendary Brazilian forward who starred alongside Pelé in Brazil’s iconic 1970 World Cup–winning team and is regarded as one of the country’s greatest footballers.
-
B.
Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha
Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha is a major football stadium in Brasília, Brazil, renowned for its modern design and role as a key host venue for international tournaments.
-
C.
The Carioca
"The Carioca" is a popular 1933 samba-inspired dance song closely associated with the film *Flying Down to Rio* and early Fred Astaire–Ginger Rogers musical numbers.
-
D.
Duque de Caxias
Duque de Caxias is a major industrial and residential municipality in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-
E.
Piquinho
Piquinho is the prominent summit cone at the top of Mount Pico in the Azores, known as the highest point in Portugal.
- 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: Maracanãzinho Target entity description: Maracanãzinho is an iconic indoor arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, renowned for hosting major international volleyball and basketball events.
-
A.
Tostão
Tostão is a legendary Brazilian forward who starred alongside Pelé in Brazil’s iconic 1970 World Cup–winning team and is regarded as one of the country’s greatest footballers.
-
B.
Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha
Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha is a major football stadium in Brasília, Brazil, renowned for its modern design and role as a key host venue for international tournaments.
-
C.
The Carioca
"The Carioca" is a popular 1933 samba-inspired dance song closely associated with the film *Flying Down to Rio* and early Fred Astaire–Ginger Rogers musical numbers.
-
D.
Duque de Caxias
Duque de Caxias is a major industrial and residential municipality in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-
E.
Piquinho
Piquinho is the prominent summit cone at the top of Mount Pico in the Azores, known as the highest point in Portugal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
event venue
ⓘ
indoor arena ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Maracanã Stadium ⓘ |
| architecturalType | multi-purpose indoor arena ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| hasSport |
basketball
ⓘ
futsal ⓘ handball ⓘ indoor sports ⓘ volleyball ⓘ |
| hasTenant |
Brazil national basketball team (selected matches)
ⓘ
Brazil national volleyball team (home matches) ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
2016 Summer Olympics indoor volleyball tournament
ⓘ
2016 Summer Olympics volleyball events ⓘ 2016 Summer Paralympics sitting volleyball events ⓘ FIBA Basketball World Championship games ⓘ
linked to:
FIBA Basketball World Cup
FIVB Volleyball World Championship ⓘ FIVB Volleyball World Cup matches ⓘ FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix matches ⓘ FIVB Volleyball World League matches ⓘ Pan American Games volleyball events ⓘ |
| inception | 1954 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Rio de Janeiro
ⓘ
Rio de Janeiro (city) ⓘ
linked to:
Rio de Janeiro
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | State of Rio de Janeiro ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Gilberto Cardoso
ⓘ
Maracanã Stadium ⓘ |
| nativeName | Ginásio Gilberto Cardoso ⓘ |
| nickname |
Ginásio do Maracanãzinho
ⓘ
linked to:
Maracanãzinho Arena
|
| openingDate | 1954 ⓘ |
| operator |
State of Rio de Janeiro government
ⓘ
linked to:
State of Rio de Janeiro
|
| owner |
State of Rio de Janeiro government
ⓘ
linked to:
State of Rio de Janeiro
|
| partOf | Maracanã sports complex ⓘ |
| renovationDate |
2007
ⓘ
2013 ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity |
about 12,000
ⓘ
approximately 11,800 ⓘ |
| significantFor |
major international basketball events
ⓘ
major international volleyball events ⓘ |
| surface | hardwood court ⓘ |
| usedFor |
concerts
ⓘ
cultural events ⓘ political events ⓘ shows ⓘ |
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: Maracanãzinho Description of subject: Maracanãzinho is an iconic indoor arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, renowned for hosting major international volleyball and basketball events.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.