NHL rulebook
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The NHL rulebook is the official document that defines the rules, regulations, and standards of play for professional ice hockey games in the National Hockey League.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NHL Official Rules | 1 |
| NHL rulebook canonical | 1 |
| National Hockey League rulebook (adapted) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1842508 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: NHL rulebook Context triple: [NHL regular season, governingRules, NHL rulebook]
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A.
IIHF Official Rule Book
The IIHF Official Rule Book is the comprehensive guide that defines the standardized rules and regulations governing international ice hockey competitions under the International Ice Hockey Federation.
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B.
NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement
The NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement is the labor contract between the National Hockey League and the players’ union that sets the rules for player employment, salaries, free agency, and league economics.
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C.
NHL Board of Governors
The NHL Board of Governors is the league’s top decision-making body, composed primarily of team owners and executives who set policies, approve major changes, and oversee the overall direction of the National Hockey League.
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D.
NCAA women’s ice hockey rules
NCAA women’s ice hockey rules are the standardized regulations governing gameplay, eligibility, equipment, and competition for women’s collegiate ice hockey in the United States.
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E.
NHL Central Registry
The NHL Central Registry is the league office department responsible for reviewing, approving, and officially recording player contracts and transactions for all National Hockey League teams.
- 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: NHL rulebook Target entity description: The NHL rulebook is the official document that defines the rules, regulations, and standards of play for professional ice hockey games in the National Hockey League.
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A.
IIHF Official Rule Book
The IIHF Official Rule Book is the comprehensive guide that defines the standardized rules and regulations governing international ice hockey competitions under the International Ice Hockey Federation.
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B.
NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement
The NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement is the labor contract between the National Hockey League and the players’ union that sets the rules for player employment, salaries, free agency, and league economics.
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C.
NHL Board of Governors
The NHL Board of Governors is the league’s top decision-making body, composed primarily of team owners and executives who set policies, approve major changes, and oversee the overall direction of the National Hockey League.
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D.
NCAA women’s ice hockey rules
NCAA women’s ice hockey rules are the standardized regulations governing gameplay, eligibility, equipment, and competition for women’s collegiate ice hockey in the United States.
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E.
NHL Central Registry
The NHL Central Registry is the league office department responsible for reviewing, approving, and officially recording player contracts and transactions for all National Hockey League teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
official document
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regulatory code ⓘ sports rulebook ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
National Hockey League
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professional ice hockey ⓘ |
| defines |
boarding infraction
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charging infraction ⓘ coach’s challenge procedures ⓘ delay of game rules ⓘ delayed penalty procedures ⓘ faceoff procedures in NHL ⓘ fighting rules ⓘ game misconduct penalties ⓘ game timing and periods ⓘ goaltender equipment standards ⓘ goaltender interference rules ⓘ hand pass rules ⓘ head contact rules ⓘ high-sticking infraction ⓘ hooking infraction ⓘ icing rule in NHL ⓘ instigator rule ⓘ kicking the puck rules ⓘ major penalties ⓘ match penalties ⓘ minor penalties ⓘ misconduct penalties ⓘ offside rule in NHL ⓘ overtime procedures in NHL ⓘ penalties in NHL games ⓘ player equipment standards ⓘ power play situations ⓘ puck in the crease rules ⓘ puck out of play rules ⓘ regulations for NHL competition ⓘ rink dimensions and markings ⓘ roles and authority of on-ice officials ⓘ rules of play in NHL games ⓘ scoring rules in NHL ⓘ shootout procedures in NHL ⓘ shorthanded situations ⓘ slashing infraction ⓘ standards of play for NHL ⓘ too many men on the ice infraction ⓘ tripping infraction ⓘ video review procedures ⓘ |
| governs | National Hockey League games ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
PDF document
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online publication ⓘ printed book ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
NHL playoff games
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NHL regular season games ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| publisher | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
NHL rules debates
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NHL rules interpretations ⓘ |
| updatedBy |
NHL Board of Governors
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NHL Competition Committee ⓘ |
| usedBy |
NHL coaches
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NHL general managers ⓘ NHL linesmen ⓘ NHL players ⓘ NHL referees ⓘ |
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 rulebook Description of subject: The NHL rulebook is the official document that defines the rules, regulations, and standards of play for professional ice hockey games in the National Hockey League.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
National Hockey League rulebook (adapted)
this entity surface form:
NHL Official Rules