Montreal Maroons
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The Montreal Maroons were a now-defunct professional ice hockey team based in Montreal that played in the NHL from 1924 to 1938 and won two Stanley Cups.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Montreal Maroons canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3240293 — 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: Montreal Maroons Context triple: [1936–37 NHL season, hadTeam, Montreal Maroons]
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A.
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal Canadiens are a historic NHL franchise based in Montreal, renowned for their record number of Stanley Cup championships and storied legacy in professional ice hockey.
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B.
Quebec Nordiques
The Quebec Nordiques were a professional ice hockey team based in Quebec City that competed in the World Hockey Association and later the NHL before relocating to become the Colorado Avalanche.
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C.
Montreal Juniors
The Montreal Juniors were a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) based in Montreal, Quebec.
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Sherbrooke Canadiens
The Sherbrooke Canadiens were a former American Hockey League team based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, that served as a primary minor-league affiliate of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens.
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E.
Quebec Remparts
The Quebec Remparts are a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League known for developing young talent and having a passionate fan base.
- 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: Montreal Maroons Target entity description: The Montreal Maroons were a now-defunct professional ice hockey team based in Montreal that played in the NHL from 1924 to 1938 and won two Stanley Cups.
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A.
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal Canadiens are a historic NHL franchise based in Montreal, renowned for their record number of Stanley Cup championships and storied legacy in professional ice hockey.
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B.
Quebec Nordiques
The Quebec Nordiques were a professional ice hockey team based in Quebec City that competed in the World Hockey Association and later the NHL before relocating to become the Colorado Avalanche.
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C.
Montreal Juniors
The Montreal Juniors were a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) based in Montreal, Quebec.
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D.
Sherbrooke Canadiens
The Sherbrooke Canadiens were a former American Hockey League team based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, that served as a primary minor-league affiliate of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens.
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E.
Quebec Remparts
The Quebec Remparts are a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League known for developing young talent and having a passionate fan base.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Montreal Maroons Description of subject: The Montreal Maroons were a now-defunct professional ice hockey team based in Montreal that played in the NHL from 1924 to 1938 and won two Stanley Cups.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Montreal Forum