Jacques Lemaire
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Jacques Lemaire is a Hall of Fame former NHL player and coach best known for his defensive-minded coaching style and leading the New Jersey Devils to the 1995 Stanley Cup championship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacques Lemaire canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T926387 — 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: Jacques Lemaire Context triple: [New Jersey Devils, notableCoach, Jacques Lemaire]
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A.
Kevin Dineen
Kevin Dineen is a former NHL forward and experienced professional hockey coach who notably led the AHL’s Portland Pirates and later coached in the NHL and international women’s hockey.
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B.
Paul Maurice
Paul Maurice is a veteran Canadian ice hockey coach known for leading multiple NHL teams, including the Florida Panthers, over a long and distinguished coaching career.
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C.
Dan Bylsma
Dan Bylsma is an American ice hockey coach best known for leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to the 2009 Stanley Cup championship.
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D.
Scotty Bowman
Scotty Bowman is a legendary NHL coach widely regarded as one of the greatest in hockey history, known for winning a record number of Stanley Cup championships behind the bench.
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E.
Ken Hitchcock
Ken Hitchcock is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach best known for leading the Dallas Stars to a Stanley Cup championship and ranking among the NHL’s winningest coaches.
- 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: Jacques Lemaire Target entity description: Jacques Lemaire is a Hall of Fame former NHL player and coach best known for his defensive-minded coaching style and leading the New Jersey Devils to the 1995 Stanley Cup championship.
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A.
Kevin Dineen
Kevin Dineen is a former NHL forward and experienced professional hockey coach who notably led the AHL’s Portland Pirates and later coached in the NHL and international women’s hockey.
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B.
Paul Maurice
Paul Maurice is a veteran Canadian ice hockey coach known for leading multiple NHL teams, including the Florida Panthers, over a long and distinguished coaching career.
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C.
Dan Bylsma
Dan Bylsma is an American ice hockey coach best known for leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to the 2009 Stanley Cup championship.
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D.
Scotty Bowman
Scotty Bowman is a legendary NHL coach widely regarded as one of the greatest in hockey history, known for winning a record number of Stanley Cup championships behind the bench.
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E.
Ken Hitchcock
Ken Hitchcock is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach best known for leading the Dallas Stars to a Stanley Cup championship and ranking among the NHL’s winningest coaches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Jacques Lemaire Description of subject: Jacques Lemaire is a Hall of Fame former NHL player and coach best known for his defensive-minded coaching style and leading the New Jersey Devils to the 1995 Stanley Cup championship.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.