Quebec Nordiques
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The Quebec Nordiques were a professional ice hockey team based in Quebec City that competed in the World Hockey Association and later the NHL before relocating to become the Colorado Avalanche.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quebec Nordiques canonical | 55 |
| Quebec Nordiques (WHA) | 3 |
| NHL Quebec Nordiques franchise | 1 |
| Quebec Nordiques in the NHL | 1 |
| Quebec Nordiques organization | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T695245 — 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: Quebec Nordiques Context triple: [Peter Šťastný, playedFor, Quebec Nordiques]
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A.
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal Canadiens are a historic NHL franchise based in Montreal, renowned for their record number of Stanley Cup championships and storied legacy in professional ice hockey.
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B.
Quebec Remparts
The Quebec Remparts are a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League known for developing young talent and having a passionate fan base.
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C.
St. Louis Blues
The St. Louis Blues are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis that competes in the National Hockey League and has won multiple conference titles and a Stanley Cup championship.
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D.
Pittsburgh Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional NHL ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known for multiple Stanley Cup championships and a long-standing rivalry with the Washington Capitals.
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E.
Buffalo Sabres
The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York, competing in the NHL’s Eastern Conference.
- 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: Quebec Nordiques Target entity description: The Quebec Nordiques were a professional ice hockey team based in Quebec City that competed in the World Hockey Association and later the NHL before relocating to become the Colorado Avalanche.
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A.
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal Canadiens are a historic NHL franchise based in Montreal, renowned for their record number of Stanley Cup championships and storied legacy in professional ice hockey.
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B.
Quebec Remparts
The Quebec Remparts are a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League known for developing young talent and having a passionate fan base.
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C.
St. Louis Blues
The St. Louis Blues are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis that competes in the National Hockey League and has won multiple conference titles and a Stanley Cup championship.
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D.
Pittsburgh Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional NHL ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known for multiple Stanley Cup championships and a long-standing rivalry with the Washington Capitals.
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E.
Buffalo Sabres
The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York, competing in the NHL’s Eastern Conference.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Quebec Nordiques Description of subject: The Quebec Nordiques were a professional ice hockey team based in Quebec City that competed in the World Hockey Association and later the NHL before relocating to become the Colorado Avalanche.
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Quebec Nordiques in the NHL
subject surface form:
Valeri Kamensky
this entity surface form:
Quebec Nordiques (WHA)
subject surface form:
Ron Sutter
this entity surface form:
NHL Quebec Nordiques franchise
this entity surface form:
Quebec Nordiques organization