COL (historical context)
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COL (historical context) is the former NHL team abbreviation used for the Colorado Rockies franchise that played in Denver from 1976 to 1982 before relocating and becoming the New Jersey Devils.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| COL (historical context) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6872765 — 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: COL (historical context) Context triple: [Colorado Rockies (NHL), abbreviation, COL (historical context)]
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A.
COL
COL is the acronym for the Commonwealth of Learning, an intergovernmental organization that promotes open and distance learning across Commonwealth countries.
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B.
COL
COL is the standard three-letter abbreviation used for the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team.
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C.
COL
COL is the standard three-letter abbreviation used to represent the Colorado Rapids, a professional Major League Soccer team based in the Denver metropolitan area.
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D.
COL
COL is the three-letter IATA airport code assigned to Coll Airport, a small airfield serving the island of Coll in Scotland.
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E.
COL
COL is the standard NHL abbreviation for the Colorado Avalanche professional ice hockey team.
- 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: COL (historical context) Target entity description: COL (historical context) is the former NHL team abbreviation used for the Colorado Rockies franchise that played in Denver from 1976 to 1982 before relocating and becoming the New Jersey Devils.
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A.
COL
COL is the standard three-letter abbreviation used for the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team.
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B.
COL
COL is the standard three-letter abbreviation used to represent the Colorado Rapids, a professional Major League Soccer team based in the Denver metropolitan area.
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C.
COL
COL is the acronym for the Commonwealth of Learning, an intergovernmental organization that promotes open and distance learning across Commonwealth countries.
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D.
COL
COL is the standard NHL abbreviation for the Colorado Avalanche professional ice hockey team.
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E.
COL
COL is the three-letter IATA airport code assigned to Coll Airport, a small airfield serving the island of Coll in Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | National Hockey League team abbreviation ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor | Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activeFromYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| activeToYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| conference | Campbell Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| division | Smythe Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstSeason | 1976–77 NHL season ⓘ |
| franchiseBecame | New Jersey Devils in 1982 ⓘ |
| franchiseLineage | Kansas City Scouts – Colorado Rockies – New Jersey Devils NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBody | National Hockey League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeArena | McNichols Sports Arena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastSeason | 1981–82 NHL season NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| league | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| notToBeConfusedWith | COL (modern abbreviation for Columbus Blue Jackets) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorTeam | Kansas City Scouts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refersTo | Colorado Rockies (NHL) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relocatedTo | East Rutherford, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relocationReason | financial difficulties ⓘ |
| represents | state of Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| status | defunct NHL team abbreviation ⓘ |
| successorTeam | New Jersey Devils NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorTeamAbbreviation | NJD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamColors |
blue
ⓘ
gold ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| teamLocation | Denver, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamName | Colorado Rockies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 1980s
ⓘ
late 1970s ⓘ |
| usedIn |
NHL standings
ⓘ
NHL statistics ⓘ game summaries ⓘ score tickers ⓘ |
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: COL (historical context) Description of subject: COL (historical context) is the former NHL team abbreviation used for the Colorado Rockies franchise that played in Denver from 1976 to 1982 before relocating and becoming the New Jersey Devils.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.