Lawson Ice Arena
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Lawson Ice Arena is an ice hockey venue on the campus of Western Michigan University, serving as the home rink for the university’s Broncos hockey team and hosting various collegiate and community ice events.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lawson Ice Arena canonical | 2 |
| Lawson Arena | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8660780 — 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: Lawson Ice Arena Context triple: [Western Michigan University, hasNotableFacility, Lawson Ice Arena]
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A.
Peaks Ice Arena
Peaks Ice Arena is an indoor ice hockey and skating venue in Provo, Utah, best known for hosting ice hockey events during the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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B.
Compton Family Ice Arena
Compton Family Ice Arena is a modern ice hockey and skating facility on the University of Notre Dame campus that serves as the home venue for the Fighting Irish hockey team.
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C.
Uline Ice Arena
Uline Ice Arena is a historic Washington, D.C. indoor arena best known for hosting major events such as early Beatles concerts and serving as a prominent mid-20th-century sports and entertainment venue.
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D.
McMorran Place Ice Arena
McMorran Place Ice Arena is an indoor ice hockey venue in Port Huron, Michigan, known primarily as the home rink of the Port Huron Prowlers minor league team.
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E.
Bowie Ice Arena
Bowie Ice Arena is a public ice skating and hockey facility serving the community of Bowie, Maryland.
- 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: Lawson Ice Arena Target entity description: Lawson Ice Arena is an ice hockey venue on the campus of Western Michigan University, serving as the home rink for the university’s Broncos hockey team and hosting various collegiate and community ice events.
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A.
Peaks Ice Arena
Peaks Ice Arena is an indoor ice hockey and skating venue in Provo, Utah, best known for hosting ice hockey events during the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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B.
Compton Family Ice Arena
Compton Family Ice Arena is a modern ice hockey and skating facility on the University of Notre Dame campus that serves as the home venue for the Fighting Irish hockey team.
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C.
Uline Ice Arena
Uline Ice Arena is a historic Washington, D.C. indoor arena best known for hosting major events such as early Beatles concerts and serving as a prominent mid-20th-century sports and entertainment venue.
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D.
McMorran Place Ice Arena
McMorran Place Ice Arena is an indoor ice hockey venue in Port Huron, Michigan, known primarily as the home rink of the Port Huron Prowlers minor league team.
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E.
Bowie Ice Arena
Bowie Ice Arena is a public ice skating and hockey facility serving the community of Bowie, Maryland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college ice hockey venue
ⓘ
indoor ice hockey arena ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| affiliation | Western Michigan Broncos athletics ⓘ |
| campus |
Western Michigan University main campus
ⓘ
linked to:
Kalamazoo campus
|
| category |
College ice hockey venues in the United States
ⓘ
Indoor arenas in Michigan ⓘ Sports venues in Kalamazoo, Michigan ⓘ Western Michigan Broncos sports venues ⓘ
linked to:
Western Michigan Broncos men's ice hockey
|
| city | Kalamazoo ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasAlternateName |
Lawson Arena
ⓘ
linked to:
Lawson Ice Arena
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| hasFeature |
concession areas
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ice resurfacing equipment storage ⓘ indoor seating for spectators ⓘ locker rooms for home and visiting teams ⓘ penalty boxes ⓘ public address system ⓘ regulation-size ice sheet ⓘ scoreboard ⓘ spectator stands ⓘ team benches ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
hosts college ice hockey games
ⓘ
hosts community skating programs ⓘ hosts figure skating activities ⓘ hosts youth hockey events ⓘ |
| hasSurface | ice ⓘ |
| homeArenaOf |
Western Michigan Broncos hockey team
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Michigan Broncos men's ice hockey
Western Michigan Broncos men's ice hockey ⓘ |
| leagueHosted | National Collegiate Hockey Conference games ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kalamazoo, Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
|
| locatedOnCampusOf | Western Michigan University ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Harry W. Lawson ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Western Michigan University ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Western Michigan University ⓘ |
| partOf | Western Michigan University athletic facilities ⓘ |
| primaryTeamNickname | Broncos ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| state |
Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan (most of state)
|
| tenants | Western Michigan Broncos men's ice hockey ⓘ |
| usedFor |
collegiate ice events
ⓘ
community ice events ⓘ figure skating ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ public skating ⓘ |
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: Lawson Ice Arena Description of subject: Lawson Ice Arena is an ice hockey venue on the campus of Western Michigan University, serving as the home rink for the university’s Broncos hockey team and hosting various collegiate and community ice events.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lawson Ice Arena