Minnesota Moose
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The Minnesota Moose were a short-lived professional ice hockey team in the International Hockey League that played in St. Paul, Minnesota, during the mid-1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minnesota Moose canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7115290 — 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: Minnesota Moose Context triple: [St. Paul Civic Center, tenant, Minnesota Moose]
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A.
Manitoba Moose
The Manitoba Moose are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, serving as the primary affiliate of the NHL's Winnipeg Jets.
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B.
Minnesota Fighting Saints
The Minnesota Fighting Saints were a professional ice hockey team based in St. Paul that played in the World Hockey Association during the 1970s, known for their entertaining, hard-nosed style and passionate local following.
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C.
Minnesota Wild
The Minnesota Wild are a professional ice hockey team based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, competing in the NHL’s Western Conference.
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D.
Iowa Wild
The Iowa Wild are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League serving as the primary affiliate of the NHL's Minnesota Wild and based in Des Moines, Iowa.
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E.
Winnipeg Jets
The Winnipeg Jets are a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, that competes in the National Hockey League (NHL).
- 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: Minnesota Moose Target entity description: The Minnesota Moose were a short-lived professional ice hockey team in the International Hockey League that played in St. Paul, Minnesota, during the mid-1990s.
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A.
Manitoba Moose
The Manitoba Moose are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, serving as the primary affiliate of the NHL's Winnipeg Jets.
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B.
Minnesota Fighting Saints
The Minnesota Fighting Saints were a professional ice hockey team based in St. Paul that played in the World Hockey Association during the 1970s, known for their entertaining, hard-nosed style and passionate local following.
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C.
Minnesota Wild
The Minnesota Wild are a professional ice hockey team based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, competing in the NHL’s Western Conference.
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D.
Iowa Wild
The Iowa Wild are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League serving as the primary affiliate of the NHL's Minnesota Wild and based in Des Moines, Iowa.
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E.
Winnipeg Jets
The Winnipeg Jets are a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, that competes in the National Hockey League (NHL).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct ice hockey team
ⓘ
professional ice hockey team ⓘ sports team ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MMO ⓘ |
| activeSeasons |
1994–95
ⓘ
1995–96 ⓘ |
| basedInMetropolitanArea |
Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Minneapolis–Saint Paul
|
| city | Saint Paul ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | minor professional ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dissolved | 1996 ⓘ |
| founded | 1994 ⓘ |
| homeArena |
Saint Paul Civic Center
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Paul Civic Center
|
| homeCountry | USA ⓘ |
| homeGamesVenue |
Saint Paul Civic Center
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Paul Civic Center
|
| league | International Hockey League ⓘ |
| location |
St. Paul, Minnesota
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Paul
|
| notableFor | short-lived tenure in the International Hockey League ⓘ |
| playedIn | International Hockey League ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| relocatedTo | Manitoba Moose ⓘ |
| shortName | Moose ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
| successorTeam | Manitoba Moose ⓘ |
| teamColors |
black
ⓘ
purple ⓘ teal ⓘ white ⓘ |
| teamStatus | defunct ⓘ |
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: Minnesota Moose Description of subject: The Minnesota Moose were a short-lived professional ice hockey team in the International Hockey League that played in St. Paul, Minnesota, during the mid-1990s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.