Hockey East
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Hockey East is a premier NCAA Division I college ice hockey conference featuring top programs primarily from the New England region.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T609132 — 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: Hockey East Context triple: [Boston University, isMemberOf, Hockey East]
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A.
ECAC Hockey
ECAC Hockey is a collegiate athletic conference that sponsors NCAA Division I men's and women's ice hockey programs primarily among private and Ivy League schools in the Northeastern United States.
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B.
New England Small College Athletic Conference
The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) is an NCAA Division III athletic conference composed of highly selective liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States.
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C.
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division III collegiate athletic conference composed primarily of private institutions in the New England region, sponsoring a wide range of men's and women's sports.
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D.
ECAC (Eastern College Athletic Conference)
The ECAC (Eastern College Athletic Conference) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that organizes and oversees intercollegiate sports competitions for a large number of member schools across multiple NCAA divisions.
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E.
Hockey East tournaments
Hockey East tournaments are annual collegiate ice hockey championship events featuring teams from the Hockey East conference competing for conference titles and NCAA tournament berths.
- 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: Hockey East Target entity description: Hockey East is a premier NCAA Division I college ice hockey conference featuring top programs primarily from the New England region.
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A.
ECAC Hockey
ECAC Hockey is a collegiate athletic conference that sponsors NCAA Division I men's and women's ice hockey programs primarily among private and Ivy League schools in the Northeastern United States.
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B.
New England Small College Athletic Conference
The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) is an NCAA Division III athletic conference composed of highly selective liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States.
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C.
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division III collegiate athletic conference composed primarily of private institutions in the New England region, sponsoring a wide range of men's and women's sports.
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ECAC (Eastern College Athletic Conference)
The ECAC (Eastern College Athletic Conference) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States that organizes and oversees intercollegiate sports competitions for a large number of member schools across multiple NCAA divisions.
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Hockey East tournaments
Hockey East tournaments are annual collegiate ice hockey championship events featuring teams from the Hockey East conference competing for conference titles and NCAA tournament berths.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NCAA Division I ice hockey conference
ⓘ
college athletic conference ⓘ |
| competitionGender |
men
ⓘ
women ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| feedsIntoCompetition |
NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship
ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championship
NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament ⓘ
surface form:
NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Championship
|
| founded | 1984 ⓘ |
| fullName |
Hockey East
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Hockey East Association
|
| geographicFocus | Northeastern United States ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Collegiate Athletic Association ⓘ |
| hasGenderDivision |
men's ice hockey
ⓘ
women's ice hockey ⓘ |
| hasPostseasonFormat | conference tournament ⓘ |
| hasRankingImpact | influences NCAA tournament selection and seeding ⓘ |
| hasScholarships | athletic scholarships in ice hockey ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Wakefield, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| levelOfPlay | top-tier college ice hockey ⓘ |
| memberInstitution |
Boston College
ⓘ
Boston University ⓘ College of the Holy Cross ⓘ Merrimack College ⓘ Northeastern University ⓘ Providence College ⓘ University of Massachusetts Lowell ⓘ
surface form:
UMass Lowell
University of Connecticut ⓘ University of Maine ⓘ University of Massachusetts Amherst ⓘ University of New Hampshire ⓘ University of Vermont ⓘ |
| memberOf | Division I ice hockey conferences in the United States ⓘ |
| memberType | universities and colleges ⓘ |
| notableRivalry |
Boston University–Boston College men's ice hockey rivalry
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston College–Boston University rivalry
|
| organizesCompetition |
Hockey East
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Hockey East men's ice hockey regular season
Hockey East tournaments ⓘ
surface form:
Hockey East men's ice hockey tournament
Hockey East tournaments ⓘ
surface form:
Hockey East women's ice hockey regular season
Hockey East tournaments ⓘ
surface form:
Hockey East women's ice hockey tournament
|
| primaryMediaMarket | New England ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | premier college ice hockey conference ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| seasonType | regular season and postseason ⓘ |
| shortName | Hockey East self-link ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| subdivision | NCAA Division I ⓘ |
| typicalSeasonEnd | March ⓘ |
| typicalSeasonStart | October ⓘ |
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: Hockey East Description of subject: Hockey East is a premier NCAA Division I college ice hockey conference featuring top programs primarily from the New England region.
Referenced by (72)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hockey East Association
this entity surface form:
Hockey East Association
this entity surface form:
Hockey East women's competition
this entity surface form:
Hockey East Association
this entity surface form:
Hockey East Association
this entity surface form:
Hockey East men's ice hockey
this entity surface form:
Hockey East women's ice hockey