Foster Hewitt
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Foster Hewitt was a pioneering Canadian radio and television sportscaster best known as the iconic play-by-play voice of Hockey Night in Canada.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Foster Hewitt canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4500683 — 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: Foster Hewitt Context triple: [Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, hasNotableInterments, Foster Hewitt]
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A.
Don Cherry
Don Cherry is a flamboyant and outspoken former NHL coach and longtime Canadian hockey commentator best known for his colorful suits and controversial opinions on "Hockey Night in Canada."
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B.
Mike Emrick
Mike "Doc" Emrick is a renowned American sportscaster best known as the longtime play-by-play voice of National Hockey League broadcasts on U.S. television.
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C.
Gord Dineen
Gord Dineen is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenseman who played in the NHL and later became a coach in various minor leagues.
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D.
Bill Dineen
Bill Dineen was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach best known for his long playing career and for coaching the Houston Aeros and other teams in the World Hockey Association and NHL.
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E.
Kevin Dineen
Kevin Dineen is a former NHL forward and experienced professional hockey coach who notably led the AHL’s Portland Pirates and later coached in the NHL and international women’s hockey.
- 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: Foster Hewitt Target entity description: Foster Hewitt was a pioneering Canadian radio and television sportscaster best known as the iconic play-by-play voice of Hockey Night in Canada.
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A.
Don Cherry
Don Cherry is a flamboyant and outspoken former NHL coach and longtime Canadian hockey commentator best known for his colorful suits and controversial opinions on "Hockey Night in Canada."
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B.
Mike Emrick
Mike "Doc" Emrick is a renowned American sportscaster best known as the longtime play-by-play voice of National Hockey League broadcasts on U.S. television.
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C.
Gord Dineen
Gord Dineen is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenseman who played in the NHL and later became a coach in various minor leagues.
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D.
Bill Dineen
Bill Dineen was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach best known for his long playing career and for coaching the Houston Aeros and other teams in the World Hockey Association and NHL.
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E.
Kevin Dineen
Kevin Dineen is a former NHL forward and experienced professional hockey coach who notably led the AHL’s Portland Pirates and later coached in the NHL and international women’s hockey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian
ⓘ
human ⓘ radio broadcaster ⓘ sportscaster ⓘ television broadcaster ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1960s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Hockey Hall of Fame induction (broadcaster category)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hockey Hall of Fame
Order of Canada ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1902-11-21 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ⓘ
linked to:
Toronto
|
| broadcastMedium |
radio
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| catchphrase | He shoots, he scores! ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1985-04-21 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Scarborough, Ontario, Canada ⓘ |
| employer |
CKFH (radio station)
ⓘ
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ⓘ |
| familyName | Hewitt ⓘ |
| father |
William A. Hewitt
ⓘ
linked to:
W. A. Hewitt
|
| fieldOfWork |
sports commentary
ⓘ
sports journalism ⓘ |
| founded | CKFH (Toronto radio station) ⓘ |
| fullName | Foster William Hewitt ⓘ |
| genre | sports broadcasting ⓘ |
| givenName | Foster ⓘ |
| hasHonor | Foster Hewitt Memorial Award named in his honour ⓘ |
| influenced |
Canadian sports broadcasting style
ⓘ
later generations of hockey broadcasters ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the iconic voice of Hockey Night in Canada
ⓘ
play-by-play announcing of ice hockey games ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Hockey Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableEvent | called the first radio broadcast of a Toronto Maple Leafs game from Maple Leaf Gardens ⓘ |
| notableRole | early pioneer of hockey play-by-play on radio in Canada ⓘ |
| notableWork | Hockey Night in Canada ⓘ |
| occupation |
radio announcer
ⓘ
sportscaster ⓘ television announcer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | hockey play-by-play announcer for Toronto Maple Leafs games ⓘ |
| residence |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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linked to:
Toronto
|
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Foster Hewitt Memorial Award ⓘ |
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: Foster Hewitt Description of subject: Foster Hewitt was a pioneering Canadian radio and television sportscaster best known as the iconic play-by-play voice of Hockey Night in Canada.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.