#11 Eduard Novák
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#11 Eduard Novák is a legendary Czech ice hockey player whose jersey number was retired by HC Kladno in honor of his outstanding contributions to the club.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| #11 Eduard Novák canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13550454 — 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: #11 Eduard Novák Context triple: [HC Kladno, hasRetiredNumber, #11 Eduard Novák]
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A.
Novák
Novák is a common Czech and Slovak surname, equivalent to the Polish surname Nowak.
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B.
Jan Novák
Jan Novák was a Czech composer known for his neoclassical style and film scores, including the music for the film "Atentát."
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C.
Eduard Nápravník
Eduard Nápravník was a prominent 19th-century Czech-born conductor and composer who became a leading figure at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, championing Russian opera and symphonic music.
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D.
Nováky
Nováky is a small industrial town in western Slovakia known for its coal mining and power generation facilities.
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E.
Pavel Janák
Pavel Janák was a prominent Czech architect and designer associated with Czech Cubism and later Functionalism, known for his innovative contributions to early 20th-century architecture and applied arts.
- 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: #11 Eduard Novák Target entity description: #11 Eduard Novák is a legendary Czech ice hockey player whose jersey number was retired by HC Kladno in honor of his outstanding contributions to the club.
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A.
Novák
Novák is a common Czech and Slovak surname, equivalent to the Polish surname Nowak.
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B.
Jan Novák
Jan Novák was a Czech composer known for his neoclassical style and film scores, including the music for the film "Atentát."
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C.
Eduard Nápravník
Eduard Nápravník was a prominent 19th-century Czech-born conductor and composer who became a leading figure at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, championing Russian opera and symphonic music.
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D.
Nováky
Nováky is a small industrial town in western Slovakia known for its coal mining and power generation facilities.
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E.
Pavel Janák
Pavel Janák was a prominent Czech architect and designer associated with Czech Cubism and later Functionalism, known for his innovative contributions to early 20th-century architecture and applied arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Czech athlete
ⓘ
ice hockey player ⓘ |
| causeOfNotability |
international achievements with Czechoslovakia national team
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legendary status at HC Kladno ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Czechoslovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-01-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2010-10-21 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| heritage | Czech ⓘ |
| honoredBy | HC Kladno NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 11 ⓘ |
| jerseyNumberRetiredBy | HC Kladno NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Czech ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn | Czechoslovak Extraliga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medalRecord |
Olympic gold medal in ice hockey
ⓘ
Olympic silver medal in ice hockey ⓘ World Championship bronze medal in ice hockey ⓘ World Championship gold medal in ice hockey ⓘ World Championship silver medal in ice hockey ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Czechoslovakia men’s national ice hockey team
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HC Kladno NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to Czechoslovak national team success
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key player for HC Kladno in the 1970s ⓘ scoring ability ⓘ |
| occupation | professional ice hockey player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Havířov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Kladno NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInTournament |
Ice Hockey World Championships
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Winter Olympic Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | left winger ⓘ |
| representedCountry | Czechoslovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredJerseyNumber | 11 ⓘ |
| sport | 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: #11 Eduard Novák Description of subject: #11 Eduard Novák is a legendary Czech ice hockey player whose jersey number was retired by HC Kladno in honor of his outstanding contributions to the club.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.