Calgary Cannons
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The Calgary Cannons were a former Triple-A minor league baseball team based in Calgary, Alberta, that competed in the Pacific Coast League before relocating and becoming the Albuquerque Isotopes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Calgary Cannons canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9614934 — 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: Calgary Cannons Context triple: [Albuquerque Isotopes, previousFranchiseName, Calgary Cannons]
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Calgary Roughnecks
The Calgary Roughnecks are a professional box lacrosse team based in Calgary, Alberta, competing in the National Lacrosse League and known as one of the league’s more successful and popular franchises.
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B.
Ottawa Renegades
The Ottawa Renegades were a short-lived Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa that played from 2002 to 2005 before folding and later being succeeded by the Ottawa Redblacks.
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C.
Ontario Reign
Ontario Reign is a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League that serves as the primary affiliate of the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings.
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D.
Saskatoon Rush
The Saskatoon Rush are a professional box lacrosse team that competes in the National Lacrosse League and is based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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E.
Calgary Hitmen
The Calgary Hitmen are a major junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League based in Calgary, Alberta, known for developing future NHL talent.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Calgary Cannons Target entity description: The Calgary Cannons were a former Triple-A minor league baseball team based in Calgary, Alberta, that competed in the Pacific Coast League before relocating and becoming the Albuquerque Isotopes.
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A.
Calgary Roughnecks
The Calgary Roughnecks are a professional box lacrosse team based in Calgary, Alberta, competing in the National Lacrosse League and known as one of the league’s more successful and popular franchises.
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B.
Ottawa Renegades
The Ottawa Renegades were a short-lived Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa that played from 2002 to 2005 before folding and later being succeeded by the Ottawa Redblacks.
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C.
Ontario Reign
Ontario Reign is a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League that serves as the primary affiliate of the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings.
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D.
Saskatoon Rush
The Saskatoon Rush are a professional box lacrosse team that competes in the National Lacrosse League and is based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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E.
Calgary Hitmen
The Calgary Hitmen are a major junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League based in Calgary, Alberta, known for developing future NHL talent.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct sports team
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minor league baseball team ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Chicago White Sox
NERFINISHED
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Montreal Expos NERFINISHED ⓘ Pittsburgh Pirates NERFINISHED ⓘ Seattle Mariners NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Calgary, Alberta, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classLevel | Triple-A ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| dissolved | 2002 ⓘ |
| division | Pacific Coast League North Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalSeason | 2002 ⓘ |
| formerName | Calgary Cannons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Calgary Cannons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicArea | Western Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeBallpark | Foothills Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCity | Calgary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCountry | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeProvince | Alberta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeStadiumCity | Calgary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeVenue | Foothills Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1985 ⓘ |
| league | Pacific Coast League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leagueMembership | Pacific Coast League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| levelOfPlay | Triple-A ⓘ |
| location | Calgary, Alberta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlumni |
Alex Rodriguez
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bret Boone NERFINISHED ⓘ Danny Tartabull NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Schmidt NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Hampton NERFINISHED ⓘ Raúl Ibañez NERFINISHED ⓘ Tino Martinez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| partOf | Minor League Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedIn | Pacific Coast League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Alberta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relocatedTo | Albuquerque Isotopes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relocationYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successorTeam | Albuquerque Isotopes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamName | Calgary Cannons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamType | professional baseball team ⓘ |
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: Calgary Cannons Description of subject: The Calgary Cannons were a former Triple-A minor league baseball team based in Calgary, Alberta, that competed in the Pacific Coast League before relocating and becoming the Albuquerque Isotopes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.