Calgary Flames
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The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary that competes in the National Hockey League (NHL).
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Calgary Flames canonical | 96 |
| Calgary Flames (NHL, temporary) | 1 |
| Calgary Flames (second tenure) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T762594 — 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: Calgary Flames Context triple: [Alberta, hasProfessionalTeam, Calgary Flames]
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A.
Edmonton Oilers
The Edmonton Oilers are a professional NHL team based in Edmonton, Alberta, best known for their 1980s dynasty led by Wayne Gretzky and multiple Stanley Cup championships.
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B.
Vancouver Canucks
The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia, that competes in the National Hockey League (NHL).
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C.
Ottawa Senators
The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, competing in the National Hockey League’s Eastern Conference.
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D.
Toronto Toros
The Toronto Toros were a 1970s World Hockey Association (WHA) professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario.
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E.
Dallas Stars
The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL) known for their 1999 Stanley Cup championship and strong presence in the Western 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: Calgary Flames Target entity description: The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary that competes in the National Hockey League (NHL).
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A.
Edmonton Oilers
The Edmonton Oilers are a professional NHL team based in Edmonton, Alberta, best known for their 1980s dynasty led by Wayne Gretzky and multiple Stanley Cup championships.
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B.
Vancouver Canucks
The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia, that competes in the National Hockey League (NHL).
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C.
Ottawa Senators
The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, competing in the National Hockey League’s Eastern Conference.
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D.
Toronto Toros
The Toronto Toros were a 1970s World Hockey Association (WHA) professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario.
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E.
Dallas Stars
The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL) known for their 1999 Stanley Cup championship and strong presence in the Western Conference.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Calgary Flames Description of subject: The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary that competes in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Referenced by (98)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Calgary Flames (second tenure)
subject surface form:
Stéphane Matteau
subject surface form:
Stéphane Matteau
this entity surface form:
Calgary Flames (NHL, temporary)