Howie Meeker
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Hockey Hall of Fame inductee
human
ice hockey coach
ice hockey player
right winger
sports broadcaster
television personality
Howie Meeker was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger, coach, broadcaster, and Hockey Hall of Famer known for his energetic commentary and influential role in teaching and analyzing the game.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howie Meeker canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3813916 — 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: Howie Meeker Context triple: [1946–47 NHL season, rookieOfTheYear, Howie Meeker]
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A.
Robin Yount
Robin Yount is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball shortstop and center fielder who spent his entire 20-year career with the Milwaukee Brewers and won two American League MVP awards.
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B.
Jake Hoyt
Jake Hoyt is a rookie LAPD narcotics officer whose moral integrity is tested during a tumultuous day under a corrupt veteran detective in the film "Training Day."
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C.
Eric Davis
Eric Davis is a former Major League Baseball outfielder best known for his star tenure with the Cincinnati Reds, combining elite power, speed, and defense during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
Brett Harrelson
Brett Harrelson is an American actor and former professional motorcycle racer, best known as the younger brother of actor Woody Harrelson and for roles in films such as "From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money."
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E.
Bobby Dyer
Bobby Dyer is an American politician who serves as the mayor of Virginia Beach, Virginia.
- 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: Howie Meeker Target entity description: Howie Meeker was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger, coach, broadcaster, and Hockey Hall of Famer known for his energetic commentary and influential role in teaching and analyzing the game.
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A.
Robin Yount
Robin Yount is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball shortstop and center fielder who spent his entire 20-year career with the Milwaukee Brewers and won two American League MVP awards.
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B.
Jake Hoyt
Jake Hoyt is a rookie LAPD narcotics officer whose moral integrity is tested during a tumultuous day under a corrupt veteran detective in the film "Training Day."
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C.
Eric Davis
Eric Davis is a former Major League Baseball outfielder best known for his star tenure with the Cincinnati Reds, combining elite power, speed, and defense during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
Brett Harrelson
Brett Harrelson is an American actor and former professional motorcycle racer, best known as the younger brother of actor Woody Harrelson and for roles in films such as "From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money."
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E.
Bobby Dyer
Bobby Dyer is an American politician who serves as the mayor of Virginia Beach, Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hockey Hall of Fame inductee
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human ⓘ ice hockey coach ⓘ ice hockey player ⓘ right winger ⓘ sports broadcaster ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| awardReceived | induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| citizenship | Canadian ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| describedBySource | Canadian sports media ⓘ |
| employer |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Hockey Night in Canada ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ice hockey coaching
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sports analysis ⓘ sports broadcasting ⓘ |
| fullName | Howard William Meeker ⓘ |
| genre |
live sports commentary
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sports broadcasting ⓘ sports education programming ⓘ |
| givenName | Howard ⓘ |
| hallOfFame | Hockey Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole |
color commentator
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hockey analyst ⓘ |
| influenced |
hockey coaching methods on television
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modern hockey analysis on TV ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| league | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Toronto Maple Leafs ⓘ |
| nickname | Howie Meeker self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
emphasis on teaching young players
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energetic hockey commentary ⓘ enthusiastic catchphrases during hockey broadcasts ⓘ in-depth analysis of hockey plays ⓘ teaching fundamentals of ice hockey on television ⓘ use of telestrator in hockey analysis ⓘ |
| notableWork |
instructional hockey broadcasts
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television segments analyzing hockey plays ⓘ |
| occupation |
ice hockey coach
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professional ice hockey player ⓘ sports commentator ⓘ television analyst ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | right wing ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Canada
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Toronto ⓘ |
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: Howie Meeker Description of subject: Howie Meeker was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger, coach, broadcaster, and Hockey Hall of Famer known for his energetic commentary and influential role in teaching and analyzing the game.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.