NHL on NBC (historical)
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NHL on NBC (historical) was the branding for NBC’s national television coverage of National Hockey League games in the United States, most prominently from the mid-2000s until the early 2020s.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NHL on NBCSN | 2 |
| NHL on NBC | 1 |
| NHL on NBC (historical) canonical | 1 |
| NHL on NBC Sports | 1 |
| NHL on NBC Sports Network (transition period branding) | 1 |
| NHL on NBC play-by-play | 1 |
| NHL television coverage on NBC | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T803555 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: NHL on NBC (historical) Context triple: [NBC Sports, hasProgram, NHL on NBC (historical)]
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A.
NHL on TNT
NHL on TNT is a U.S. television broadcast package that features live National Hockey League games, studio shows, and related coverage on the TNT cable network.
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B.
NHL Radio
NHL Radio is the official radio broadcast network of the National Hockey League, providing live audio coverage and commentary of NHL games and related events.
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C.
NHL
NHL is the common abbreviation for National Historic Landmark, a designation given by the U.S. government to places of exceptional historical significance.
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D.
Hockey Night in Canada
Hockey Night in Canada is a long-running Canadian television broadcast that features live National Hockey League games and has become a cultural institution in Canada.
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E.
NHL Stadium Series
The NHL Stadium Series is an annual set of regular-season National Hockey League games played outdoors in large stadiums, showcasing marquee matchups in unique open-air settings.
- 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: NHL on NBC (historical) Target entity description: NHL on NBC (historical) was the branding for NBC’s national television coverage of National Hockey League games in the United States, most prominently from the mid-2000s until the early 2020s.
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A.
NHL on TNT
NHL on TNT is a U.S. television broadcast package that features live National Hockey League games, studio shows, and related coverage on the TNT cable network.
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B.
NHL Radio
NHL Radio is the official radio broadcast network of the National Hockey League, providing live audio coverage and commentary of NHL games and related events.
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C.
NHL
NHL is the common abbreviation for National Historic Landmark, a designation given by the U.S. government to places of exceptional historical significance.
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D.
Hockey Night in Canada
Hockey Night in Canada is a long-running Canadian television broadcast that features live National Hockey League games and has become a cultural institution in Canada.
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E.
NHL Stadium Series
The NHL Stadium Series is an annual set of regular-season National Hockey League games played outdoors in large stadiums, showcasing marquee matchups in unique open-air settings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: NHL on NBC (historical) Description of subject: NHL on NBC (historical) was the branding for NBC’s national television coverage of National Hockey League games in the United States, most prominently from the mid-2000s until the early 2020s.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
NHL television coverage on NBC
this entity surface form:
NHL on NBC play-by-play
subject surface form:
NHL on NBC
this entity surface form:
NHL on NBC Sports
subject surface form:
NHL on NBC
this entity surface form:
NHL on NBCSN
this entity surface form:
NHL on NBCSN
this entity surface form:
NHL on NBC Sports Network (transition period branding)
this entity surface form:
NHL on NBC