Montreal Expos
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The Montreal Expos were a Major League Baseball team based in Montreal, Quebec, that played from 1969 until relocating in 2004 to become the Washington Nationals.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Montreal Expos canonical | 22 |
| Montreal Expos (minor leagues) | 1 |
| Montreal Expos at Cincinnati Reds Opening Day 1996 | 1 |
| Montreal Expos retired his uniform number 10 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8504443 — 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: Montreal Expos Context triple: [Mark Gardner, memberOfSportsTeam, Montreal Expos]
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A.
Montreal Voyageurs
The Montreal Voyageurs were a former American Hockey League team that served as a minor-league affiliate of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens before relocating and becoming the Nova Scotia Voyageurs.
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B.
Blue Jays
The Blue Jays are the athletic teams representing Johns Hopkins University in collegiate sports.
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C.
Montreal Royals
The Montreal Royals were a minor league baseball team best known as the Brooklyn Dodgers’ top farm club and the team for which Jackie Robinson broke professional baseball’s color barrier in 1946.
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D.
Nats
The Nats is the common abbreviation for the National Party of Australia, a conservative political party that traditionally represents rural and regional interests.
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E.
Toronto Blue Jays
The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian Major League Baseball team based in Toronto, Ontario, known for their passionate fan base, multiple World Series titles in the early 1990s, and status as Canada’s only MLB franchise.
- 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: Montreal Expos Target entity description: The Montreal Expos were a Major League Baseball team based in Montreal, Quebec, that played from 1969 until relocating in 2004 to become the Washington Nationals.
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A.
Montreal Voyageurs
The Montreal Voyageurs were a former American Hockey League team that served as a minor-league affiliate of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens before relocating and becoming the Nova Scotia Voyageurs.
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B.
Blue Jays
The Blue Jays are the athletic teams representing Johns Hopkins University in collegiate sports.
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C.
Montreal Royals
The Montreal Royals were a minor league baseball team best known as the Brooklyn Dodgers’ top farm club and the team for which Jackie Robinson broke professional baseball’s color barrier in 1946.
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D.
Nats
The Nats is the common abbreviation for the National Party of Australia, a conservative political party that traditionally represents rural and regional interests.
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E.
Toronto Blue Jays
The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian Major League Baseball team based in Toronto, Ontario, known for their passionate fan base, multiple World Series titles in the early 1990s, and status as Canada’s only MLB franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Major League Baseball team ⓘ |
| city | Montreal ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| division | National League East NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| divisionChampionships | 1 ⓘ |
| expansionTeam | true ⓘ |
| expansionYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| firstSeason | 1969 ⓘ |
| founded | 1969 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Major League Baseball ⓘ |
| homeBallpark |
Jarry Park Stadium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Olympic Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageCommunity |
English-speaking fans
ⓘ
French-speaking fans ⓘ |
| lastSeason | 2004 ⓘ |
| league | National League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Montreal
ⓘ
Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| madePostseason | 1981 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Expo 67 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname |
Les Expos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Expos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableManager | Felipe Alou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableOwner | Charles Bronfman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePlayer |
Andre Dawson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gary Carter NERFINISHED ⓘ Larry Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ Pedro Martínez NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Raines NERFINISHED ⓘ Vladimir Guerrero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pennants | 0 ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | Washington Nationals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| province | Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| relocatedTo | Washington Nationals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relocationYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| retiredNumber |
10
ⓘ
30 ⓘ 42 ⓘ 8 ⓘ |
| sport | Baseball ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| teamAbbreviation | MON NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamColors |
blue
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| wonDivisionTitle | 1981 ⓘ |
| worldSeriesTitles | 0 ⓘ |
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: Montreal Expos Description of subject: The Montreal Expos were a Major League Baseball team based in Montreal, Quebec, that played from 1969 until relocating in 2004 to become the Washington Nationals.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mark Gardner
subject surface form:
Mark Gardner
subject surface form:
Mark Gardner (baseball)
this entity surface form:
Montreal Expos (minor leagues)
this entity surface form:
Montreal Expos at Cincinnati Reds Opening Day 1996
subject surface form:
Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp
this entity surface form:
Montreal Expos retired his uniform number 10