Minnesota North Stars (partial use)
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The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the NHL that played in Minnesota from 1967 until relocating to become the Dallas Stars in 1993.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Minnesota North Stars | 25 |
| Minnesota North Stars (partial use) canonical | 1 |
| Minnesota North Stars / Dallas Stars franchise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7115291 — 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: Minnesota North Stars (partial use) Context triple: [St. Paul Civic Center, tenant, Minnesota North Stars (partial use)]
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A.
Minnesota Wild
The Minnesota Wild are a professional ice hockey team based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, competing in the NHL’s Western Conference.
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B.
Minnesota Fighting Saints
The Minnesota Fighting Saints were a professional ice hockey team based in St. Paul that played in the World Hockey Association during the 1970s, known for their entertaining, hard-nosed style and passionate local following.
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C.
Winnipeg Jets
The Winnipeg Jets are a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, that competes in the National Hockey League (NHL).
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D.
St. Louis Blues
The St. Louis Blues are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis that competes in the National Hockey League and has won multiple conference titles and a Stanley Cup championship.
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E.
St. Louis Blues
"St. Louis Blues" is a landmark early 20th-century American blues song, widely regarded as one of the most influential and frequently recorded standards in jazz and popular music history.
- 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: Minnesota North Stars (partial use) Target entity description: The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the NHL that played in Minnesota from 1967 until relocating to become the Dallas Stars in 1993.
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A.
Minnesota Wild
The Minnesota Wild are a professional ice hockey team based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, competing in the NHL’s Western Conference.
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B.
Minnesota Fighting Saints
The Minnesota Fighting Saints were a professional ice hockey team based in St. Paul that played in the World Hockey Association during the 1970s, known for their entertaining, hard-nosed style and passionate local following.
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C.
Winnipeg Jets
The Winnipeg Jets are a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, that competes in the National Hockey League (NHL).
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D.
St. Louis Blues
The St. Louis Blues are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis that competes in the National Hockey League and has won multiple conference titles and a Stanley Cup championship.
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E.
St. Louis Blues
"St. Louis Blues" is a landmark early 20th-century American blues song, widely regarded as one of the most influential and frequently recorded standards in jazz and popular music history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct National Hockey League team
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professional ice hockey team ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MNS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ceasedOperations | 1993 ⓘ |
| city | Bloomington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conference | Campbell Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conferenceTitles | 2 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| division |
Adams Division
NERFINISHED
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Norris Division NERFINISHED ⓘ Smythe Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| divisionTitles | 2 ⓘ |
| expansionTeam | true ⓘ |
| founded | 1967 ⓘ |
| homeArena | Met Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| joinedLeague | 1967 NHL expansion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastSeasonInMinnesota | 1992–93 NHL season ⓘ |
| league | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| location | Bloomington, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| madeStanleyCupFinals |
1981
ⓘ
1991 ⓘ |
| notableCoach |
Bob Gainey
NERFINISHED
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Glen Sonmor NERFINISHED ⓘ Murray Oliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePlayer |
Bobby Smith
NERFINISHED
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Brian Bellows NERFINISHED ⓘ Dino Ciccarelli NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Modano NERFINISHED ⓘ Neal Broten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalExpansionClass | 1967 NHL expansion teams ⓘ |
| owner | Norm Green NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedIn | Western Conference predecessors ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | Dallas Stars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relocatedTo | Dallas Stars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relocationYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| retiredNumber |
19
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26 ⓘ 7 ⓘ 8 ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| StanleyCupChampionships | 0 ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| successorFranchise | Dallas Stars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamColors |
black
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gold ⓘ green ⓘ white ⓘ |
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: Minnesota North Stars (partial use) Description of subject: The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the NHL that played in Minnesota from 1967 until relocating to become the Dallas Stars in 1993.
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