1989 IIHF World Championship
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The 1989 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation that determined the world champion for that year.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1989 IIHF World Championship canonical | 1 |
| IIHF World Championship 1989 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11271474 — 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: 1989 IIHF World Championship Context triple: [1990 IIHF World Championship, previousEdition, 1989 IIHF World Championship]
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A.
1990 IIHF World Championship
The 1990 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, featuring top national teams competing for the world title.
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B.
1998 IIHF World Championship
The 1998 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, serving as the top annual world championship event for men's national teams that year.
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C.
1996 IIHF World Championship
The 1996 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, featuring top national teams competing for the world title.
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D.
1999 IIHF World Championship
The 1999 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, serving as the top annual world championship event for national men’s teams that year.
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E.
1976 IIHF World Championship
The 1976 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament notable for being held in Katowice, Poland, and for featuring strong performances from European national teams during the Cold War era.
- 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: 1989 IIHF World Championship Target entity description: The 1989 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation that determined the world champion for that year.
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A.
1990 IIHF World Championship
The 1990 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, featuring top national teams competing for the world title.
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B.
1998 IIHF World Championship
The 1998 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, serving as the top annual world championship event for men's national teams that year.
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C.
1996 IIHF World Championship
The 1996 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, featuring top national teams competing for the world title.
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D.
1999 IIHF World Championship
The 1999 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, serving as the top annual world championship event for national men’s teams that year.
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E.
1976 IIHF World Championship
The 1976 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament notable for being held in Katowice, Poland, and for featuring strong performances from European national teams during the Cold War era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IIHF World Championship
ⓘ
international ice hockey tournament ⓘ |
| alsoCountedAs | 1989 European Ice Hockey Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bronzeMedalist | Sweden men's national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Sweden ⓘ |
| determined | world champion in ice hockey for 1989 ⓘ |
| editionNumber | 54 ⓘ |
| endDate | 1989-04-30 ⓘ |
| finalRoundFormat | round-robin ⓘ |
| finalStandingsPositionOfHost | 3 ⓘ |
| fourthPlace | Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| goldMedalist | Soviet Union national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBody | International Ice Hockey Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostCity |
Gävle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stockholm NERFINISHED ⓘ Södertälje NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostCountry | Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location |
Gävle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stockholm NERFINISHED ⓘ Södertälje NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mostValuablePlayer | Vyacheslav Bykov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nextEdition | 1990 IIHF World Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfTeams | 8 ⓘ |
| organizedBy | International Ice Hockey Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | IIHF World Championships NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousEdition | 1987 IIHF World Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| silverMedalist | Canada men's national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| startDate | 1989-04-15 ⓘ |
| teamRepresentingHostCountry | Sweden men's national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| topScorer | Steve Yzerman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winner | Soviet Union national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| year | 1989 ⓘ |
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: 1989 IIHF World Championship Description of subject: The 1989 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation that determined the world champion for that year.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
IIHF World Championship 1989