1981–82 Los Angeles Lakers season
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The 1981–82 Los Angeles Lakers season was a championship-winning NBA campaign led by stars like Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Norm Nixon, culminating in an NBA Finals victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1981–82 Los Angeles Lakers season canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6704999 — 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: 1981–82 Los Angeles Lakers season Context triple: [Norm Nixon, NBAChampionshipSeason, 1981–82 Los Angeles Lakers season]
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A.
1971–72 Los Angeles Lakers
The 1971–72 Los Angeles Lakers were an NBA team that set a then-record 69–13 regular-season mark and won the championship, highlighted by a historic 33-game winning streak.
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B.
1980–81 NBA season
The 1980–81 NBA season was the league campaign in which the Boston Celtics, led by stars like Larry Bird and Cedric Maxwell, captured the NBA championship.
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C.
1982–83 NBA season
The 1982–83 NBA season was the year the Philadelphia 76ers, led by league MVP Moses Malone and Julius Erving, dominated the league and won the NBA championship.
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D.
1981 NBA Finals
The 1981 NBA Finals was the championship series concluding the 1980–81 NBA season, featuring the Boston Celtics defeating the Houston Rockets to claim the league title.
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E.
1981–82 NCAA women’s basketball season
The 1981–82 NCAA women’s basketball season marked the early era of NCAA governance over women’s collegiate basketball, including the inaugural championship competition for Division III programs.
- 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: 1981–82 Los Angeles Lakers season Target entity description: The 1981–82 Los Angeles Lakers season was a championship-winning NBA campaign led by stars like Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Norm Nixon, culminating in an NBA Finals victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.
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A.
1971–72 Los Angeles Lakers
The 1971–72 Los Angeles Lakers were an NBA team that set a then-record 69–13 regular-season mark and won the championship, highlighted by a historic 33-game winning streak.
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B.
1980–81 NBA season
The 1980–81 NBA season was the league campaign in which the Boston Celtics, led by stars like Larry Bird and Cedric Maxwell, captured the NBA championship.
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C.
1982–83 NBA season
The 1982–83 NBA season was the year the Philadelphia 76ers, led by league MVP Moses Malone and Julius Erving, dominated the league and won the NBA championship.
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D.
1981 NBA Finals
The 1981 NBA Finals was the championship series concluding the 1980–81 NBA season, featuring the Boston Celtics defeating the Houston Rockets to claim the league title.
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E.
1981–82 NCAA women’s basketball season
The 1981–82 NCAA women’s basketball season marked the early era of NCAA governance over women’s collegiate basketball, including the inaugural championship competition for Division III programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Los Angeles Lakers season
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NBA season ⓘ |
| championshipSeries | 1982 NBA Finals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conference | Western Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conferenceChampionship | Western Conference champions ⓘ |
| conferenceFinalsOpponent | San Antonio Spurs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conferenceFinalsResult | 4–0 ⓘ |
| conferencePlace | 1st in Western Conference ⓘ |
| conferenceSemifinalsOpponent | Phoenix Suns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conferenceSemifinalsResult | 4–0 ⓘ |
| division | Pacific Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| divisionChampionship | Pacific Division champions ⓘ |
| divisionPlace | 1st in Pacific Division ⓘ |
| featuredPlayer |
Bob McAdoo
NERFINISHED
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Jamaal Wilkes NERFINISHED ⓘ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar NERFINISHED ⓘ Magic Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ Norm Nixon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FinalsMVP | Magic Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | Los Angeles Lakers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchiseNBAChampionshipNumber | 8 ⓘ |
| generalManager | Jerry West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headCoach | Pat Riley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeArena | The Forum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCity | Inglewood, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| KareemAbdulJabbarAllNBATeam | All-NBA First Team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| LosAngelesEraChampionshipNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| losses | 25 ⓘ |
| MagicJohnsonAllNBATeam | All-NBA Second Team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MichaelCooperAllDefensiveTeam | NBA All-Defensive Second Team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NBAFinalsGameCount | 6 ⓘ |
| NBAFinalsOpponent | Philadelphia 76ers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NBAFinalsResult | 4–2 ⓘ |
| nextSeason | 1982–83 Los Angeles Lakers season NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRookie | Kurt Rambis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Jerry Buss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| PatRileyFirstFullSeasonAsCoach | true ⓘ |
| playoffOutcome | NBA champions ⓘ |
| previousSeason | 1980–81 Los Angeles Lakers season NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regularSeasonRecord | 57–25 ⓘ |
| seasonEndYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| seasonStartYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay | Showtime fast-break offense ⓘ |
| team | Los Angeles Lakers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wins | 57 ⓘ |
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: 1981–82 Los Angeles Lakers season Description of subject: The 1981–82 Los Angeles Lakers season was a championship-winning NBA campaign led by stars like Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Norm Nixon, culminating in an NBA Finals victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.
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