Maine Mariners
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The Maine Mariners are a professional ice hockey team based in Portland, Maine, competing in the ECHL as an affiliate of the NHL's Boston Bruins.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maine Mariners canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3305972 — 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: Maine Mariners Context triple: [Portland, Maine, sportsTeam, Maine Mariners]
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A.
Maine Black Bears
The Maine Black Bears are the University of Maine’s NCAA Division I athletic teams, best known for their competitive ice hockey and strong presence in America East and Hockey East conferences.
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B.
Providence Bruins
The Providence Bruins are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League that serves as the primary minor-league affiliate of the NHL’s Boston Bruins.
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C.
Cotuit Kettleers
The Cotuit Kettleers are a collegiate summer baseball team in the Cape Cod Baseball League, known for their long history and multiple league championships.
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D.
New England Whalers
The New England Whalers were a World Hockey Association team based in New England that later joined the NHL as the Hartford Whalers.
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E.
Tri-City Americans
The Tri-City Americans are a major junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League based in Kennewick, Washington.
- 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: Maine Mariners Target entity description: The Maine Mariners are a professional ice hockey team based in Portland, Maine, competing in the ECHL as an affiliate of the NHL's Boston Bruins.
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A.
Maine Black Bears
The Maine Black Bears are the University of Maine’s NCAA Division I athletic teams, best known for their competitive ice hockey and strong presence in America East and Hockey East conferences.
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B.
Providence Bruins
The Providence Bruins are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League that serves as the primary minor-league affiliate of the NHL’s Boston Bruins.
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C.
Cotuit Kettleers
The Cotuit Kettleers are a collegiate summer baseball team in the Cape Cod Baseball League, known for their long history and multiple league championships.
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D.
New England Whalers
The New England Whalers were a World Hockey Association team based in New England that later joined the NHL as the Hartford Whalers.
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E.
Tri-City Americans
The Tri-City Americans are a major junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League based in Kennewick, Washington.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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: Maine Mariners Description of subject: The Maine Mariners are a professional ice hockey team based in Portland, Maine, competing in the ECHL as an affiliate of the NHL's Boston Bruins.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.