Manchester Storm (ice hockey, former)

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Manchester Storm was a professional ice hockey team based in Manchester, England that competed in the British Ice Hockey Superleague during the 1990s and early 2000s.

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf defunct ice hockey team
professional sports team
alsoKnownAs Manchester Storm (ice hockey, former)
surface form: Original Manchester Storm
city Manchester
competitionLevel top tier of UK ice hockey
country United Kingdom
dissolved 2002
eraOfActivity early 2000s
late 1990s
fanBaseRegion Greater Manchester
foundedAsExpansionTeamIn 1995
governingBody Ice Hockey UK
homeArena Manchester Arena
homeArenaCapacityApprox 17000
homeArenaFormerName Nynex Arena
homeArenaLaterName Manchester Evening News Arena
homeColours black
purple
yellow
homeCountry England
homeGamesVenue Manchester Arena
inception 1995
league British Ice Hockey Superleague
locatedIn England
Manchester
notableAchievement attracted some of the largest crowds in European ice hockey at the time
notableRival Nottingham Panthers
Sheffield Steelers
participatedIn domestic cup competitions in UK ice hockey
playedHomeGamesAtIndoorArena yes
playedIn British Ice Hockey Superleague
Ice Hockey Superleague seasons 1996–97 to 2002–03
playedRegularSeasonGamesIn British Ice Hockey Superleague
professionalStatus fully professional
reasonForDissolution financial difficulties
region North West England
setAttendanceRecordForUKIceHockey yes
shortName Manchester Storm (ice hockey, former) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Manchester Storm
sport ice hockey
status defunct
successorTeamInception 2015
successorTeamLeague Elite Ice Hockey League
successorTeamNameReuse Manchester Storm (ice hockey, former) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Manchester Storm (EIHL)
teamBasedInMetropolitanArea Greater Manchester
teamType men's ice hockey team
wonTitle British Ice Hockey Superleague regular season championship
wonTitleInSeason 1998–99 BISL regular season

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: Manchester Storm (ice hockey, former)
Description of subject: Manchester Storm was a professional ice hockey team based in Manchester, England that competed in the British Ice Hockey Superleague during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Manchester Arena tenant Manchester Storm (ice hockey, former)
Manchester Storm (ice hockey, former) shortName Manchester Storm (ice hockey, former) self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Manchester Storm
Manchester Storm (ice hockey, former) alsoKnownAs Manchester Storm (ice hockey, former)
this entity surface form: Original Manchester Storm
Manchester Storm (ice hockey, former) successorTeamNameReuse Manchester Storm (ice hockey, former) self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Manchester Storm (EIHL)
Manchester Storm predecessor Manchester Storm (ice hockey, former)
this entity surface form: Manchester Storm (1995–2002)