Montreal Royals
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The Montreal Royals were a minor league baseball team best known as the Brooklyn Dodgers’ top farm club and the team for which Jackie Robinson broke professional baseball’s color barrier in 1946.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Montreal Royals canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4629306 — 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: Montreal Royals Context triple: [Jackie Robinson Ballpark, teamInvolved, Montreal Royals]
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A.
Montreal Voyageurs
The Montreal Voyageurs were a former American Hockey League team that served as a minor-league affiliate of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens before relocating and becoming the Nova Scotia Voyageurs.
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B.
Montreal Wanderers
The Montreal Wanderers were an early 20th-century professional ice hockey team from Montreal, known for their multiple Stanley Cup championships and role in the formative years of organized pro hockey.
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C.
Montreal Maroons
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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D.
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.
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E.
Vancouver Maroons
The Vancouver Maroons were a professional ice hockey team from Vancouver, British Columbia, that competed in the early 20th century and featured legendary player Cyclone Taylor.
- 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: Montreal Royals Target entity description: The Montreal Royals were a minor league baseball team best known as the Brooklyn Dodgers’ top farm club and the team for which Jackie Robinson broke professional baseball’s color barrier in 1946.
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A.
Montreal Voyageurs
The Montreal Voyageurs were a former American Hockey League team that served as a minor-league affiliate of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens before relocating and becoming the Nova Scotia Voyageurs.
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B.
Montreal Wanderers
The Montreal Wanderers were an early 20th-century professional ice hockey team from Montreal, known for their multiple Stanley Cup championships and role in the formative years of organized pro hockey.
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C.
Montreal Maroons
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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D.
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.
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E.
Vancouver Maroons
The Vancouver Maroons were a professional ice hockey team from Vancouver, British Columbia, that competed in the early 20th century and featured legendary player Cyclone Taylor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball team
ⓘ
minor league baseball team ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith |
Brooklyn Dodgers
ⓘ
linked to:
Brooklyn Superbas
|
| basedIn | Montreal ⓘ |
| city |
Montreal, Quebec
ⓘ
linked to:
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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| colorBarrierContext | first season of an officially integrated team in modern professional baseball ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| disbanded | 1960 ⓘ |
| founded | 1897 ⓘ |
| historicalEra | 20th century ⓘ |
| homeGamesLocation | east end of Montreal at Delorimier Stadium ⓘ |
| homeStadium | Delorimier Stadium ⓘ |
| jerseyNumberRetiredFor | Jackie Robinson ⓘ |
| league | International League ⓘ |
| leagueChampionships | multiple International League championships ⓘ |
| levelOfPlay | Triple-A ⓘ |
| notableEventYear | 1946 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the team for which Jackie Robinson broke professional baseball’s color barrier ⓘ |
| notablePlayer |
Don Newcombe
ⓘ
Duke Snider ⓘ Jackie Robinson ⓘ Roy Campanella ⓘ |
| operatedAsFarmTeamFor |
Brooklyn Dodgers
ⓘ
linked to:
Brooklyn Superbas
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| role | top farm club of the Brooklyn Dodgers ⓘ |
| seasonRecord | 1946: 100 wins and 54 losses ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| wonChampionship |
1946 International League pennant
ⓘ
1946 Junior World Series ⓘ Junior World Series ⓘ |
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 Royals Description of subject: The Montreal Royals were a minor league baseball team best known as the Brooklyn Dodgers’ top farm club and the team for which Jackie Robinson broke professional baseball’s color barrier in 1946.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.