Mike Richards
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Mike Richards is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre best known for his Stanley Cup–winning tenure with the Los Angeles Kings and earlier success with the Philadelphia Flyers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Richards canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7483280 — 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: Mike Richards Context triple: [Kitchener Rangers, notableAlumni, Mike Richards]
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A.
Jim Richards
Jim Richards is a celebrated New Zealand-born racing driver renowned for his multiple championship victories and long-standing success in Australian touring car and motorsport events.
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B.
Larry Robinson
Larry Robinson is a Hall of Fame Canadian ice hockey defenseman best known for his long, successful career with the Montreal Canadiens and multiple Stanley Cup championships.
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C.
Larry Robinson
Larry Robinson is an American academic and administrator best known for serving as president of Florida A&M University.
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D.
Joe Ricketts
Joe Ricketts is an American businessman best known as the founder of the online brokerage firm TD Ameritrade and a prominent member of the billionaire Ricketts family.
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E.
Phil York
Phil York was an American recording engineer and producer best known for his work on Willie Nelson’s landmark album "Red Headed Stranger."
- 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: Mike Richards Target entity description: Mike Richards is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre best known for his Stanley Cup–winning tenure with the Los Angeles Kings and earlier success with the Philadelphia Flyers.
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A.
Jim Richards
Jim Richards is a celebrated New Zealand-born racing driver renowned for his multiple championship victories and long-standing success in Australian touring car and motorsport events.
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B.
Larry Robinson
Larry Robinson is an American academic and administrator best known for serving as president of Florida A&M University.
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C.
Larry Robinson
Larry Robinson is a Hall of Fame Canadian ice hockey defenseman best known for his long, successful career with the Montreal Canadiens and multiple Stanley Cup championships.
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D.
Joe Ricketts
Joe Ricketts is an American businessman best known as the founder of the online brokerage firm TD Ameritrade and a prominent member of the billionaire Ricketts family.
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E.
Phil York
Phil York was an American recording engineer and producer best known for his work on Willie Nelson’s landmark album "Red Headed Stranger."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
centre
ⓘ
human ⓘ ice hockey player ⓘ |
| captaincyEndYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| captaincyStartYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| captainOf | Philadelphia Flyers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionClass | professional ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1985-02-11 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Philadelphia Flyers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftLeague | NHL Entry Draft ⓘ |
| draftPickNumber | 24 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| formerTeam |
Los Angeles Kings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philadelphia Flyers NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington Capitals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heightInCentimetres | 180 ⓘ |
| heightInInches | 71 ⓘ |
| juniorTeam | Kootenay Ice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league |
American Hockey League
ⓘ
National Hockey League ⓘ Western Hockey League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Kootenay Ice
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ Manchester Monarchs NERFINISHED ⓘ Philadelphia Flyers NERFINISHED ⓘ Philadelphia Phantoms NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington Capitals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Stanley Cup–winning tenure with the Los Angeles Kings
ⓘ
earlier success with the Philadelphia Flyers ⓘ |
| occupation | ice hockey player ⓘ |
| OlympicGoldMedalistFor | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| OlympicGoldMedalYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kenora, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsForNationalTeam | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | centre ⓘ |
| representedCountryInTournament |
IIHF World Championship
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Winter Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ World Junior Ice Hockey Championships NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retired | true ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| shoots | left ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| StanleyCupWinner |
2012
ⓘ
2014 ⓘ |
| weightInKilograms | 89 ⓘ |
| weightInPounds | 196 ⓘ |
| wonCalderCup | 2005 ⓘ |
| wonChampionshipWith | Los Angeles Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wonMemorialCup |
2002
ⓘ
2003 ⓘ |
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: Mike Richards Description of subject: Mike Richards is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre best known for his Stanley Cup–winning tenure with the Los Angeles Kings and earlier success with the Philadelphia Flyers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.