Cincinnati Swords
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The Cincinnati Swords were a professional ice hockey team that played in the American Hockey League in the early 1970s as an affiliate of the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cincinnati Swords canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10215069 — 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: Cincinnati Swords Context triple: [Cincinnati Gardens, tenant, Cincinnati Swords]
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A.
Cleveland Rebels
The Cleveland Rebels were a short-lived professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio, that competed in the Basketball Association of America during the league's inaugural season.
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B.
Cleveland Rocks
"Cleveland Rocks" is a rock anthem celebrating the city of Cleveland, widely known for its use as the theme song to the sitcom *The Drew Carey Show*.
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C.
Birmingham Iron
Birmingham Iron was a professional American football team based in Birmingham, Alabama that competed in the short-lived Alliance of American Football league.
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D.
Cincinnati Mighty Ducks
The Cincinnati Mighty Ducks were a former American Hockey League team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, that served as a primary minor-league affiliate of the NHL’s Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
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E.
Toledo Blue Stockings
The Toledo Blue Stockings were a 19th-century professional baseball team best known for briefly competing at the major-league level in the 1880s.
- 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: Cincinnati Swords Target entity description: The Cincinnati Swords were a professional ice hockey team that played in the American Hockey League in the early 1970s as an affiliate of the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres.
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A.
Cleveland Rebels
The Cleveland Rebels were a short-lived professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio, that competed in the Basketball Association of America during the league's inaugural season.
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B.
Cleveland Rocks
"Cleveland Rocks" is a rock anthem celebrating the city of Cleveland, widely known for its use as the theme song to the sitcom *The Drew Carey Show*.
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C.
Birmingham Iron
Birmingham Iron was a professional American football team based in Birmingham, Alabama that competed in the short-lived Alliance of American Football league.
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D.
Cincinnati Mighty Ducks
The Cincinnati Mighty Ducks were a former American Hockey League team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, that served as a primary minor-league affiliate of the NHL’s Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
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E.
Toledo Blue Stockings
The Toledo Blue Stockings were a 19th-century professional baseball team best known for briefly competing at the major-league level in the 1880s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct ice hockey team
ⓘ
professional ice hockey team ⓘ |
| abbreviation | AHL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activeSeasons |
1971–72
ⓘ
1972–73 ⓘ 1973–74 ⓘ |
| affiliation | Buffalo Sabres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedLeagueTier | top minor league level below NHL ⓘ |
| championshipSeason | 1972–73 ⓘ |
| city | Cincinnati NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | primary farm team of Buffalo Sabres ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| disbandedDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1974 ⓘ |
| division | AHL West Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | early 1970s ⓘ |
| fate | franchise suspended and later revoked by AHL ⓘ |
| founded | 1971 ⓘ |
| foundedAs | expansion franchise in AHL ⓘ |
| foundedDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| geographicRegion | Midwestern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeArena | Cincinnati Gardens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeArenaCity | Cincinnati NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeArenaState | Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeCountryLeague | American Hockey League (AHL) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeGamesPlayedAt | Cincinnati Gardens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | American Hockey League ⓘ |
| level | minor league ⓘ |
| location | Cincinnati, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sabres–Swords theme shared with Buffalo Sabres ⓘ |
| NHLaffiliateOf | Buffalo Sabres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | won Calder Cup in second season of existence ⓘ |
| originalPurpose | serve as farm team for Buffalo Sabres ⓘ |
| parentClub | Buffalo Sabres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentLeague | American Hockey League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playoffAppearances | made AHL playoffs in multiple seasons ⓘ |
| reasonForRelocationOrFold | to make way for WHA Cincinnati Stingers ⓘ |
| regularSeasonTitle | AHL regular season champions 1972–73 ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| state | Ohio ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successorLeagueOfCityTeam | World Hockey Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorTeamInCity | Cincinnati Stingers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamColors |
blue
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gold ⓘ white ⓘ |
| wonChampionship | Calder Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Cincinnati Swords Description of subject: The Cincinnati Swords were a professional ice hockey team that played in the American Hockey League in the early 1970s as an affiliate of the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.