Desert Inn
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Desert Inn was a famous Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino known for its mid-20th-century glamour, celebrity clientele, and appearances in classic films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Desert Inn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8801335 — 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: Desert Inn Context triple: [Ocean's 11 (1960 film), notableCasinoLocations, Desert Inn]
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A.
California Hotel and Casino
California Hotel and Casino is a Hawaiian-themed casino hotel in downtown Las Vegas known for catering heavily to visitors from Hawaii and offering gaming, dining, and lodging near the Fremont Street Experience.
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B.
Treasure Island Hotel and Casino
Treasure Island Hotel and Casino is a pirate-themed resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, known for its entertainment-focused atmosphere and origins as one of Steve Wynn’s major Strip developments.
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C.
Mission Inn Hotel & Spa
Mission Inn Hotel & Spa is a historic, mission-style luxury hotel and resort in downtown Riverside, California, renowned for its distinctive architecture and cultural significance.
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D.
Flamingo Hotel and Casino
Flamingo Hotel and Casino is a historic Las Vegas Strip resort widely regarded as one of the city’s first luxury casinos and a key catalyst in transforming Las Vegas into a major gambling and entertainment destination.
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E.
Harrah
Harrah is a small city in central Oklahoma known for its suburban-rural character and proximity to Oklahoma City.
- 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: Desert Inn Target entity description: Desert Inn was a famous Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino known for its mid-20th-century glamour, celebrity clientele, and appearances in classic films.
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A.
California Hotel and Casino
California Hotel and Casino is a Hawaiian-themed casino hotel in downtown Las Vegas known for catering heavily to visitors from Hawaii and offering gaming, dining, and lodging near the Fremont Street Experience.
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B.
Treasure Island Hotel and Casino
Treasure Island Hotel and Casino is a pirate-themed resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, known for its entertainment-focused atmosphere and origins as one of Steve Wynn’s major Strip developments.
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C.
Mission Inn Hotel & Spa
Mission Inn Hotel & Spa is a historic, mission-style luxury hotel and resort in downtown Riverside, California, renowned for its distinctive architecture and cultural significance.
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D.
Flamingo Hotel and Casino
Flamingo Hotel and Casino is a historic Las Vegas Strip resort widely regarded as one of the city’s first luxury casinos and a key catalyst in transforming Las Vegas into a major gambling and entertainment destination.
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E.
Harrah
Harrah is a small city in central Oklahoma known for its suburban-rural character and proximity to Oklahoma City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Las Vegas Strip property
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hotel-casino ⓘ resort ⓘ |
| address | 3145 Las Vegas Boulevard South ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Casino (1995 film)
NERFINISHED
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Diamonds Are Forever (1971 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Ocean's 11 (1960 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Viva Las Vegas (1964 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | mid-century modern ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Rat Pack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Defunct casinos in Las Vegas
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Defunct hotels in Las Vegas ⓘ Resorts on the Las Vegas Strip ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| demolitionDate | 2004 ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
bars
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casino ⓘ golf course ⓘ hotel ⓘ restaurants ⓘ showroom ⓘ swimming pool ⓘ |
| hasFeature | Desert Inn Golf Course NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostedGuest | Howard Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostedPerformer |
Dean Martin
NERFINISHED
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Frank Sinatra NERFINISHED ⓘ Liberace NERFINISHED ⓘ Sammy Davis Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne Newton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
appearances in classic films
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celebrity clientele ⓘ golf course ⓘ mid-20th-century glamour ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Las Vegas
NERFINISHED
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Nevada ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| location | Las Vegas Strip NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Howard Hughes long-term stay and purchase of the resort ⓘ |
| openedInYear | 1950 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1950-04-24 ⓘ |
| operatedAs | Desert Inn and Country Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner |
Howard Hughes
NERFINISHED
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Steve Wynn NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilbur Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Encore Las Vegas
NERFINISHED
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Wynn Las Vegas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | demolished ⓘ |
| theme | luxury resort ⓘ |
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: Desert Inn Description of subject: Desert Inn was a famous Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino known for its mid-20th-century glamour, celebrity clientele, and appearances in classic films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ocean's 11 (1960 film)