Cornwall Royals
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The Cornwall Royals were a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and later the Ontario Hockey League, known for producing several future NHL stars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cornwall Royals canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5012604 — 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: Cornwall Royals Context triple: [Doug Gilmour, playedFor, Cornwall Royals]
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A.
Cornwall Nationals (former)
The Cornwall Nationals were a short-lived professional ice hockey team based in Cornwall, Ontario, that competed in the Federal Hockey League.
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B.
London Monarchs
The London Monarchs were a professional American football team based in London that competed in the World League of American Football, later known as NFL Europe, during the 1990s.
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C.
Stratford Warriors
The Stratford Warriors are a junior ice hockey team based in Stratford, Ontario, competing in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League.
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D.
Cornwall Colts
The Cornwall Colts are a junior ice hockey team based in Cornwall, Ontario, competing in Canadian junior leagues and serving as a key part of the local sports community.
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E.
Belfast Giants
The Belfast Giants are a professional ice hockey team based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, competing in the Elite Ice Hockey League.
- 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: Cornwall Royals Target entity description: The Cornwall Royals were a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and later the Ontario Hockey League, known for producing several future NHL stars.
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A.
Cornwall Nationals (former)
The Cornwall Nationals were a short-lived professional ice hockey team based in Cornwall, Ontario, that competed in the Federal Hockey League.
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B.
London Monarchs
The London Monarchs were a professional American football team based in London that competed in the World League of American Football, later known as NFL Europe, during the 1990s.
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C.
Stratford Warriors
The Stratford Warriors are a junior ice hockey team based in Stratford, Ontario, competing in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League.
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D.
Cornwall Colts
The Cornwall Colts are a junior ice hockey team based in Cornwall, Ontario, competing in Canadian junior leagues and serving as a key part of the local sports community.
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E.
Belfast Giants
The Belfast Giants are a professional ice hockey team based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, competing in the Elite Ice Hockey League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct ice hockey team
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junior ice hockey team ⓘ |
| city | Cornwall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1992 ⓘ |
| founded | 1969 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Canadian Hockey League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeArena |
Cornwall Civic Complex
NERFINISHED
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Water Street Arena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| joinedLeague |
OHL in 1981–82
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QMJHL in 1969–70 ⓘ |
| league |
Ontario Hockey League
NERFINISHED
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Quebec Major Junior Hockey League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| level | major junior ⓘ |
| location | Cornwall, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MemorialCupTitles | 3 ⓘ |
| notableAlumnus |
Billy Smith
NERFINISHED
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Dale Hawerchuk NERFINISHED ⓘ Dan Daoust NERFINISHED ⓘ Doug Gilmour NERFINISHED ⓘ Greg Millen NERFINISHED ⓘ James Patrick NERFINISHED ⓘ John Wensink NERFINISHED ⓘ Marc Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ Norm Maciver NERFINISHED ⓘ Owen Nolan NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul MacLean NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Sheppard NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Brodeur NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Arniel NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Driscoll NERFINISHED ⓘ Todd Gill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCoach |
Bob Kilger
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marc Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ Orval Tessier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| OHLChampionships | 0 ⓘ |
| producedFutureLeague | National Hockey League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| province | Ontario ⓘ |
| QMJHLChampionships | 3 ⓘ |
| relocatedAfterSeason | 1991–92 ⓘ |
| relocatedTo | Newmarket, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| successorTeam | Newmarket Royals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamColors |
blue
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| wonChampionship | Memorial Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wonMemorialCupInSeason |
1971–72
ⓘ
1980–81 ⓘ 1982–83 ⓘ |
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: Cornwall Royals Description of subject: The Cornwall Royals were a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and later the Ontario Hockey League, known for producing several future NHL stars.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.