2016 IIHF World Championship
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The 2016 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation and held in Russia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 2016 IIHF World Championship canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11271577 — 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: 2016 IIHF World Championship Context triple: [2015 IIHF World Championship, nextEdition, 2016 IIHF World Championship]
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A.
2018 IIHF World Championship
The 2018 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.
2021 IIHF World Championship
The 2021 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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C.
2023 IIHF World Championship
The 2023 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.
2015 IIHF World Championship
The 2015 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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E.
2019 IIHF World Championship
The 2019 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation and contested by national teams to determine the world champion for that year.
- 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: 2016 IIHF World Championship Target entity description: The 2016 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation and held in Russia.
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A.
2018 IIHF World Championship
The 2018 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.
2021 IIHF World Championship
The 2021 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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C.
2023 IIHF World Championship
The 2023 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.
2015 IIHF World Championship
The 2015 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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E.
2019 IIHF World Championship
The 2019 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation and contested by national teams to determine the world champion for that year.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IIHF World Championship
ⓘ
international ice hockey tournament ⓘ |
| bestDefenceman | Michael Matheson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestForward | Patrik Laine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestGoaltender | Sergei Bobrovsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bronzeMedalist | Russia men's national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| champion | Canada men's national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closingDate | 2016-05-22 ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| editionNumber | 80 ⓘ |
| endDate | 2016-05-22 ⓘ |
| finalMatchLoser | Finland men's national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalMatchWinner | Canada men's national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalScore | 2–0 ⓘ |
| finalVenue | VTB Ice Palace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| goldMedalist | Canada men's national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| groupStageFormat | two groups of eight teams ⓘ |
| hostCity |
Moscow
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saint Petersburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostCountry | Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostSelectionCity | Bratislava NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostSelectionDate | 2011-05-13 ⓘ |
| hostSelectionEvent | 2011 IIHF Annual Congress ⓘ |
| knockoutStageFormat | single-elimination ⓘ |
| mainSponsor | Škoda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mascot | Laika the dog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mostValuablePlayer | Patrick Laine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nextEdition | 2017 IIHF World Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfHostCities | 2 ⓘ |
| numberOfParticipatingNations | 16 ⓘ |
| numberOfTeams | 16 ⓘ |
| numberOfVenues | 2 ⓘ |
| officialLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Russian ⓘ |
| officialPuckSupplier | Škoda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingDate | 2016-05-06 ⓘ |
| organizer | International Ice Hockey Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousEdition | 2015 IIHF World Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runnerUp | Finland men's national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| silverMedalist | Finland men's national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| startDate | 2016-05-06 ⓘ |
| thirdPlace | Russia men's national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | UTC+3 ⓘ |
| topScorer | Vadim Shipachyov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| venue |
VTB Ice Palace
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yubileyny Sports Palace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winner | Canada men's national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| year | 2016 ⓘ |
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: 2016 IIHF World Championship Description of subject: The 2016 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation and held in Russia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Auston Matthews