Boston Garden
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Boston Garden was a famed indoor sports and entertainment arena in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Boston Celtics and the NHL’s Boston Bruins.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boston Garden canonical | 34 |
| Boston Garden (former arena) | 1 |
| Boston Garden development | 1 |
| Boston Garden-Arena Corporation | 1 |
| Boston Madison Square Garden | 1 |
| The Boston Garden | 1 |
| historic Boston Garden arena | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7779 — 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: Boston Garden Context triple: [Boston Celtics, formerArena, Boston Garden]
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A.
TD Garden
TD Garden is a major multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the home venue of the NBA's Boston Celtics and the NHL's Boston Bruins.
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B.
Johnson Athletic Center
Johnson Athletic Center is an indoor sports and recreation facility on the MIT campus that hosts the MIT Engineers’ athletic events and training.
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C.
Gill Coliseum
Gill Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, primarily serving as the home venue for the university’s basketball and other athletic programs.
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D.
Gillette Stadium
Gillette Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue in Foxborough, Massachusetts, best known as the home field of the NFL’s New England Patriots and MLS’s New England Revolution.
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E.
United Center
The United Center is a major indoor sports and entertainment arena in Chicago best known as the home of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls and the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks.
- 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: Boston Garden Target entity description: Boston Garden was a famed indoor sports and entertainment arena in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Boston Celtics and the NHL’s Boston Bruins.
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A.
TD Garden
TD Garden is a major multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the home venue of the NBA's Boston Celtics and the NHL's Boston Bruins.
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B.
Johnson Athletic Center
Johnson Athletic Center is an indoor sports and recreation facility on the MIT campus that hosts the MIT Engineers’ athletic events and training.
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C.
Gill Coliseum
Gill Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, primarily serving as the home venue for the university’s basketball and other athletic programs.
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D.
Gillette Stadium
Gillette Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue in Foxborough, Massachusetts, best known as the home field of the NFL’s New England Patriots and MLS’s New England Revolution.
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E.
United Center
The United Center is a major indoor sports and entertainment arena in Chicago best known as the home of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls and the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
demolished building
ⓘ
entertainment venue ⓘ indoor arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Boston Garden
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston Madison Square Garden
Boston Garden ⓘ
surface form:
The Boston Garden
The Garden ⓘ |
| architect |
F. Frederick Ayer
ⓘ
Louis C. Newhall ⓘ |
| closed | 1995-09-28 ⓘ |
| closingYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| constructionCost | $10,000,000 (approximate, 1928 dollars) ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| demolished | 1998 ⓘ |
| heritage | longtime home of Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins ⓘ |
| homeArenaOf |
Boston Bruins
ⓘ
Boston Celtics ⓘ |
| hostedEvent |
NBA Finals games
ⓘ
surface form:
NBA Finals
NBA games ⓘ NHL games ⓘ NHL playoffs ⓘ
surface form:
Stanley Cup Finals
boxing matches ⓘ college hockey games ⓘ concerts ⓘ political conventions ⓘ professional wrestling events ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
Causeway Street ⓘ Massachusetts ⓘ North End, Boston ⓘ |
| notableFor |
historic Boston Celtics championship runs
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intimate and noisy atmosphere ⓘ non-standard smaller ice surface ⓘ obstructed-view seats ⓘ |
| opened | 1928-11-17 ⓘ |
| openingYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| operator |
Boston Garden
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Boston Garden-Arena Corporation
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| owner |
Boston and Maine Railroad
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surface form:
Boston and Maine Corporation
Delaware North ⓘ |
| partOf | sports history of Boston ⓘ |
| replacedBy | TD Garden ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity |
about 13,909 for hockey
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about 14,890 for basketball ⓘ |
| successorVenue |
TD Garden
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surface form:
FleetCenter
TD Garden ⓘ |
| surface |
hardwood court
ⓘ
ice rink ⓘ |
| tenant |
Boston Braves (NHL)
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Boston Bruins ⓘ Boston Bruins ⓘ
surface form:
Boston Bruins (NHL)
Boston Celtics ⓘ Boston Celtics ⓘ
surface form:
Boston Celtics (BAA/NBA)
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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: Boston Garden Description of subject: Boston Garden was a famed indoor sports and entertainment arena in Boston, Massachusetts, best known as the longtime home of the NBA’s Boston Celtics and the NHL’s Boston Bruins.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Boston Madison Square Garden
this entity surface form:
The Boston Garden
this entity surface form:
Boston Garden-Arena Corporation
subject surface form:
Shawmut Center
this entity surface form:
historic Boston Garden arena
subject surface form:
Boston Braves (AHL)
subject surface form:
Boston Braves (AHL)
this entity surface form:
Boston Garden development
this entity surface form:
Boston Garden (former arena)