Nathan MacKinnon
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Nathan MacKinnon is a Canadian professional ice hockey center and NHL superstar known for his elite speed, playmaking, and leadership as a franchise player.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nathan MacKinnon canonical | 5 |
| Nathan Raymond MacKinnon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2829708 — 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: Nathan MacKinnon Context triple: [Colorado Avalanche, notablePlayer, Nathan MacKinnon]
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A.
Auston Matthews
Auston Matthews is an elite American professional ice hockey center and one of the NHL’s premier goal scorers, serving as a franchise cornerstone for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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B.
Logan Couture
Logan Couture is a Canadian professional ice hockey center and longtime leader for the San Jose Sharks in the NHL.
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C.
Connor McDavid
Connor McDavid is a Canadian professional ice hockey center and captain of the Edmonton Oilers, widely regarded as one of the most talented and dominant players in modern NHL history.
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D.
Brock Boeser
Brock Boeser is an American professional ice hockey winger known for his goal-scoring ability in the NHL with the Vancouver Canucks.
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E.
Patrick Kane
Patrick Kane is an American professional ice hockey right winger widely regarded as one of the NHL’s most skilled offensive players and a multiple-time Stanley Cup champion.
- 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: Nathan MacKinnon Target entity description: Nathan MacKinnon is a Canadian professional ice hockey center and NHL superstar known for his elite speed, playmaking, and leadership as a franchise player.
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A.
Auston Matthews
Auston Matthews is an elite American professional ice hockey center and one of the NHL’s premier goal scorers, serving as a franchise cornerstone for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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B.
Logan Couture
Logan Couture is a Canadian professional ice hockey center and longtime leader for the San Jose Sharks in the NHL.
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C.
Connor McDavid
Connor McDavid is a Canadian professional ice hockey center and captain of the Edmonton Oilers, widely regarded as one of the most talented and dominant players in modern NHL history.
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D.
Brock Boeser
Brock Boeser is an American professional ice hockey winger known for his goal-scoring ability in the NHL with the Vancouver Canucks.
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E.
Patrick Kane
Patrick Kane is an American professional ice hockey right winger widely regarded as one of the NHL’s most skilled offensive players and a multiple-time Stanley Cup champion.
- 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: Nathan MacKinnon Description of subject: Nathan MacKinnon is a Canadian professional ice hockey center and NHL superstar known for his elite speed, playmaking, and leadership as a franchise player.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nathan Raymond MacKinnon