1953 IIHF World Championship
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The 1953 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, notable for featuring post-war European powers and contributing to the early Cold War era sports landscape.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1953 IIHF World Championship canonical | 2 |
| 1953 European Ice Hockey Championship | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3033111 — 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)
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Target entity: 1953 IIHF World Championship Context triple: [Germany men's national ice hockey team, WorldChampionshipSilverMedal, 1953 IIHF World Championship]
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A.
1951 IIHF World Championship
The 1951 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament held in Paris, France, featuring top national teams competing for the world title under the governance of the International Ice Hockey Federation.
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B.
1950 IIHF World Championship
The 1950 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament held in London, England, where Canada won the title and the United States claimed the silver medal.
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C.
1949 IIHF World Championship
The 1949 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament held in Stockholm, Sweden, featuring top national teams competing for the world title in the post–World War II era.
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D.
1960 IIHF World Championship
The 1960 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament held in Squaw Valley, California, that doubled as the Winter Olympic ice hockey competition and saw the United States win a historic gold medal.
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E.
1957 IIHF World Championship
The 1957 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament held in Moscow during the Cold War, notable for the Soviet Union's victory and the political tensions surrounding participation and boycotts.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: 1953 IIHF World Championship Target entity description: The 1953 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, notable for featuring post-war European powers and contributing to the early Cold War era sports landscape.
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A.
1951 IIHF World Championship
The 1951 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament held in Paris, France, featuring top national teams competing for the world title under the governance of the International Ice Hockey Federation.
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B.
1950 IIHF World Championship
The 1950 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament held in London, England, where Canada won the title and the United States claimed the silver medal.
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C.
1949 IIHF World Championship
The 1949 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament held in Stockholm, Sweden, featuring top national teams competing for the world title in the post–World War II era.
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D.
1960 IIHF World Championship
The 1960 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament held in Squaw Valley, California, that doubled as the Winter Olympic ice hockey competition and saw the United States win a historic gold medal.
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E.
1957 IIHF World Championship
The 1957 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament held in Moscow during the Cold War, notable for the Soviet Union's victory and the political tensions surrounding participation and boycotts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IIHF World Championship
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international ice hockey tournament ⓘ |
| alsoCountedAs |
1953 IIHF World Championship
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
1953 European Ice Hockey Championship
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| bronzeMedalist |
Switzerland men's national ice hockey team
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surface form:
Switzerland national ice hockey team
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| category |
1953 in ice hockey
ⓘ
IIHF World Championship ⓘ
surface form:
IIHF World Championship tournaments
International ice hockey competitions hosted by Switzerland ⓘ |
| champion |
Sweden men's national ice hockey team
ⓘ
surface form:
Sweden national ice hockey team
|
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| editionNumber | 20 ⓘ |
| endDate | 1953-03-01 ⓘ |
| goldMedalist |
Sweden men's national ice hockey team
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surface form:
Sweden national ice hockey team
|
| governingBody | International Ice Hockey Federation ⓘ |
| hasEuropeanChampion |
Sweden men's national ice hockey team
ⓘ
surface form:
Sweden national ice hockey team
|
| hostCity |
Basel-Stadt
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surface form:
Basel
Davos ⓘ Zurich ⓘ |
| hostCountry | Switzerland ⓘ |
| languageOfOfficialCommunication |
English
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French ⓘ |
| level | senior men’s national teams ⓘ |
| nextEdition | 1954 IIHF World Championship ⓘ |
| notableContext |
early Cold War era sports competition
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post-World War II European international sport ⓘ |
| numberOfTeams | 9 ⓘ |
| organizer | International Ice Hockey Federation ⓘ |
| partOf |
IIHF World Championship
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surface form:
IIHF World Championship series
|
| previousEdition | 1951 IIHF World Championship ⓘ |
| ruleSet | IIHF rules ⓘ |
| silverMedalist |
West Germany men's national ice hockey team
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surface form:
West Germany national ice hockey team
|
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| startDate | 1953-02-19 ⓘ |
| teamRepresentedEntity | national ice hockey team ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1950s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: 1953 IIHF World Championship Description of subject: The 1953 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, notable for featuring post-war European powers and contributing to the early Cold War era sports landscape.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Germany men's national ice hockey team
→
WorldChampionshipSilverMedal
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1953 IIHF World Championship
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1953 IIHF World Championship
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alsoCountedAs
→
1953 IIHF World Championship
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
1953 European Ice Hockey Championship