Ontario Hockey League
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The Ontario Hockey League is one of Canada's three major junior ice hockey leagues, developing elite players aged 16–20 and serving as a key pipeline to the NHL.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ontario Hockey League canonical | 62 |
| OHL | 1 |
| Ontario Hockey League Western Conference | 1 |
| Ontario Hockey League playoffs | 1 |
| Ontario Hockey League season | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1124837 — 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: Ontario Hockey League Context triple: [Meridian Centre, leagueHosted, Ontario Hockey League]
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A.
Ontario Professional Hockey League
The Ontario Professional Hockey League was an early 20th-century Canadian professional ice hockey league that helped lay the groundwork for modern major professional hockey organizations.
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B.
Canadian Hockey League
The Canadian Hockey League is the major junior ice hockey organization in Canada and parts of the United States, comprising the top three regional leagues that develop many future professional players.
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C.
Western Hockey League
The Western Hockey League is a major junior ice hockey league in Western Canada and the Northwestern United States that serves as a key development path to professional hockey, including the NHL.
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D.
East Coast Hockey League
The East Coast Hockey League, now known simply as the ECHL, is a mid-level professional ice hockey league in North America that serves as a primary developmental league for the NHL and AHL.
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E.
Canadian-American Hockey League
The Canadian-American Hockey League was an early 20th-century professional ice hockey league in the northeastern United States and Canada that helped lay the groundwork for what became the American Hockey League.
- 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: Ontario Hockey League Target entity description: The Ontario Hockey League is one of Canada's three major junior ice hockey leagues, developing elite players aged 16–20 and serving as a key pipeline to the NHL.
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A.
Ontario Professional Hockey League
The Ontario Professional Hockey League was an early 20th-century Canadian professional ice hockey league that helped lay the groundwork for modern major professional hockey organizations.
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B.
Canadian Hockey League
The Canadian Hockey League is the major junior ice hockey organization in Canada and parts of the United States, comprising the top three regional leagues that develop many future professional players.
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C.
Western Hockey League
The Western Hockey League is a major junior ice hockey league in Western Canada and the Northwestern United States that serves as a key development path to professional hockey, including the NHL.
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D.
East Coast Hockey League
The East Coast Hockey League, now known simply as the ECHL, is a mid-level professional ice hockey league in North America that serves as a primary developmental league for the NHL and AHL.
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E.
Canadian-American Hockey League
The Canadian-American Hockey League was an early 20th-century professional ice hockey league in the northeastern United States and Canada that helped lay the groundwork for what became the American Hockey League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
major junior ice hockey league
ⓘ
sports organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | OHL ⓘ |
| ageRangeOfPlayers | 16–20 ⓘ |
| allowsOveragePlayers | yes ⓘ |
| broadcastsOn |
Sportsnet
ⓘ
TSN1 ⓘ
surface form:
TSN
|
| championshipTrophy | J. Ross Robertson Cup ⓘ |
| competitionFormat | regular season and playoffs ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| draftsFrom |
United States minor and prep hockey programs
ⓘ
minor hockey systems in Ontario ⓘ minor hockey systems in other Canadian provinces ⓘ |
| founded | 1974 ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Canadian Hockey League
ⓘ
Ontario Hockey Association ⓘ
surface form:
Ontario Hockey Federation
|
| governs |
disciplinary procedures
ⓘ
game operations standards ⓘ player eligibility rules ⓘ |
| hasAllStarEvent | OHL All-Star events (various formats over time) ⓘ |
| hasTeamIn |
Michigan
ⓘ
Ontario ⓘ Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Toronto
ⓘ
surface form:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
| jerseyNumberRules | players typically wear numbers 1–98 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| levelOnPyramid | major junior ⓘ |
| maximumOveragePlayersPerTeam | 3 ⓘ |
| memberOf | Hockey Canada ⓘ |
| notableAlumniDestination | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| numberOfTeams | 20 ⓘ |
| officialWebsite | https://ontariohockeyleague.com/ ⓘ |
| oneOf | three major junior ice hockey leagues in Canada ⓘ |
| partOf | Canadian Hockey League ⓘ |
| playerEntryMechanism | OHL Priority Selection ⓘ |
| playoffDuration | approximately March to May ⓘ |
| precededBy | Ontario Hockey Association Junior A League ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | development of elite junior ice hockey players ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Ontario
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| role | key pipeline to the National Hockey League ⓘ |
| seasonDuration | approximately September to March for regular season ⓘ |
| sisterLeague |
Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League
ⓘ
Western Hockey League ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| topTeamsQualifyFor | Memorial Cup ⓘ |
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: Ontario Hockey League Description of subject: The Ontario Hockey League is one of Canada's three major junior ice hockey leagues, developing elite players aged 16–20 and serving as a key pipeline to the NHL.
Referenced by (66)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
this entity surface form:
Ontario Hockey League Western Conference
this entity surface form:
OHL
subject surface form:
Owen Sound Attack
this entity surface form:
Ontario Hockey League playoffs