Ford Center
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Ford Center was the original name of the multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Oklahoma City that later became known as the Paycom Center.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ford Center canonical | 2 |
| Ford Center, Oklahoma City | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7424676 — 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: Ford Center Context triple: [Paycom Center, formerName, Ford Center]
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A.
Ford Center
Ford Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Evansville, Indiana, primarily used for sports events, concerts, and other large-scale entertainment.
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B.
Ford Center for the Performing Arts
Ford Center for the Performing Arts was a major Broadway theater in New York City, later renamed the Lyric Theatre, known for hosting large-scale musical productions.
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C.
Ford Center at The Star
Ford Center at The Star is a state-of-the-art indoor athletic facility and event center in Frisco, Texas, that serves as the Dallas Cowboys’ practice venue and hosts a variety of sports and entertainment events.
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D.
Jon M. Huntsman Center
The Jon M. Huntsman Center is a large multi-purpose arena on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, best known for hosting major collegiate basketball and gymnastics events.
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E.
McLeod Center
McLeod Center is a multi-purpose arena on the University of Northern Iowa campus, best known as the home venue for the UNI Panthers basketball and volleyball teams.
- 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: Ford Center Target entity description: Ford Center was the original name of the multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Oklahoma City that later became known as the Paycom Center.
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A.
Ford Center
Ford Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Evansville, Indiana, primarily used for sports events, concerts, and other large-scale entertainment.
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B.
Ford Center for the Performing Arts
Ford Center for the Performing Arts was a major Broadway theater in New York City, later renamed the Lyric Theatre, known for hosting large-scale musical productions.
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C.
Ford Center at The Star
Ford Center at The Star is a state-of-the-art indoor athletic facility and event center in Frisco, Texas, that serves as the Dallas Cowboys’ practice venue and hosts a variety of sports and entertainment events.
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D.
Jon M. Huntsman Center
The Jon M. Huntsman Center is a large multi-purpose arena on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, best known for hosting major collegiate basketball and gymnastics events.
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E.
McLeod Center
McLeod Center is a multi-purpose arena on the University of Northern Iowa campus, best known as the home venue for the UNI Panthers basketball and volleyball teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | indoor arena ⓘ |
| category |
Basketball venues in Oklahoma
ⓘ
Indoor arenas in Oklahoma ⓘ Sports venues in Oklahoma City ⓘ |
| city | Oklahoma City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerNameOf | Paycom Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerTenant | New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
club seating
ⓘ
luxury suites ⓘ retractable seating ⓘ |
| hasSurface | hardwood court ⓘ |
| leagueOfTenant | National Basketball Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | downtown Oklahoma City ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| location | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namingRightsHolder | Ford Motor Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | City of Oklahoma City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | City of Oklahoma City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Oklahoma City Arena project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse | professional basketball games ⓘ |
| sponsoredBy | Ford Motor Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Oklahoma ⓘ |
| successorName |
Chesapeake Energy Arena
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paycom Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tenant | Oklahoma City Thunder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
basketball
ⓘ
concerts ⓘ conventions ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ |
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: Ford Center Description of subject: Ford Center was the original name of the multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Oklahoma City that later became known as the Paycom Center.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ford Center, Oklahoma City