1986–87 NHL season
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The 1986–87 NHL season was the 70th regular season of the National Hockey League, highlighted by the Edmonton Oilers winning the Stanley Cup and the continued dominance of stars like Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1986–87 NHL season canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6620244 — 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: 1986–87 NHL season Context triple: [Luc Robitaille, NHLdebutSeason, 1986–87 NHL season]
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A.
1988–89 NHL season
The 1988–89 NHL season was the National Hockey League campaign in which the Calgary Flames captured their first and only Stanley Cup title.
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B.
1986–87 NBA season
The 1986–87 NBA season was the league campaign in which the Los Angeles Lakers, led by Magic Johnson, won the championship and Johnson earned the MVP award.
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C.
National Hockey League season 1980–81
The 1980–81 National Hockey League season was a professional ice hockey campaign notable for high-scoring offenses and the continued rise of stars like Wayne Gretzky during the league’s early-1980s era.
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D.
NHL All-Star Game 1980
The 1980 NHL All-Star Game was the National Hockey League’s midseason exhibition showcase featuring its top players, held during the 1979–80 season.
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E.
1990–91 NHL season
The 1990–91 NHL season was a National Hockey League campaign notable for featuring the debut of future Hall of Fame goaltender Dominik Hašek.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: 1986–87 NHL season Target entity description: The 1986–87 NHL season was the 70th regular season of the National Hockey League, highlighted by the Edmonton Oilers winning the Stanley Cup and the continued dominance of stars like Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux.
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A.
1988–89 NHL season
The 1988–89 NHL season was the National Hockey League campaign in which the Calgary Flames captured their first and only Stanley Cup title.
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B.
1986–87 NBA season
The 1986–87 NBA season was the league campaign in which the Los Angeles Lakers, led by Magic Johnson, won the championship and Johnson earned the MVP award.
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C.
National Hockey League season 1980–81
The 1980–81 National Hockey League season was a professional ice hockey campaign notable for high-scoring offenses and the continued rise of stars like Wayne Gretzky during the league’s early-1980s era.
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D.
NHL All-Star Game 1980
The 1980 NHL All-Star Game was the National Hockey League’s midseason exhibition showcase featuring its top players, held during the 1979–80 season.
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E.
1990–91 NHL season
The 1990–91 NHL season was a National Hockey League campaign notable for featuring the debut of future Hall of Fame goaltender Dominik Hašek.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (71)
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: 1986–87 NHL season Description of subject: The 1986–87 NHL season was the 70th regular season of the National Hockey League, highlighted by the Edmonton Oilers winning the Stanley Cup and the continued dominance of stars like Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux.
Referenced by (2)
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