Olie Kolzig
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National Hockey League player
Olympic ice hockey player
human
ice hockey goaltender
ice hockey player
Olie Kolzig is a retired German-Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender best known for his long NHL career with the Washington Capitals, including winning the Vezina Trophy in 2000.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Olie Kolzig canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T137451 — 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: Olie Kolzig Context triple: [Olaf Kölzig, alternateName, Olie Kolzig]
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A.
Martin Lindauer
Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral biologist and prominent honeybee researcher known for his pioneering work on insect communication and social organization.
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B.
Toby Pohlen
Toby Pohlen is a member of the team at xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.
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C.
Rick Hahn
Rick Hahn is an American baseball executive best known for serving as the general manager of the Chicago White Sox in Major League Baseball.
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D.
Jon Bosak
Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
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E.
Bill Rasmussen
Bill Rasmussen is an American sports broadcasting executive best known for creating ESPN, the first 24-hour cable sports television network.
- 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: Olie Kolzig Target entity description: Olie Kolzig is a retired German-Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender best known for his long NHL career with the Washington Capitals, including winning the Vezina Trophy in 2000.
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A.
Martin Lindauer
Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral biologist and prominent honeybee researcher known for his pioneering work on insect communication and social organization.
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B.
Toby Pohlen
Toby Pohlen is a member of the team at xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.
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C.
Rick Hahn
Rick Hahn is an American baseball executive best known for serving as the general manager of the Chicago White Sox in Major League Baseball.
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D.
Jon Bosak
Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
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E.
Bill Rasmussen
Bill Rasmussen is an American sports broadcasting executive best known for creating ESPN, the first 24-hour cable sports television network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Olie Kolzig Description of subject: Olie Kolzig is a retired German-Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender best known for his long NHL career with the Washington Capitals, including winning the Vezina Trophy in 2000.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Olie Kolzig