Ted Nolan
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Ted Nolan is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach, best known for winning the Jack Adams Award as NHL coach of the year with the Buffalo Sabres and for his advocacy for Indigenous peoples in sport.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ted Nolan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7317625 — 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: Ted Nolan Context triple: [Garden River First Nation, hasNotablePerson, Ted Nolan]
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A.
Steve Nolan
Steve Nolan is a fictional character appearing in the 1977 film "American Woman."
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B.
David Nolan
David Nolan is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals, including politicians, athletes, and fictional characters.
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C.
Graham Nolan
Graham Nolan is an American comic book artist best known for co-creating the Batman villain Bane and his extensive work on DC Comics titles.
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D.
Kevin Nolan
Kevin Nolan is an English former professional footballer best known as a goal-scoring midfielder for clubs such as Bolton Wanderers, Newcastle United, and West Ham United.
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E.
Kenny Nolan
Kenny Nolan is an American songwriter and singer best known for co-writing the hit song "Lady Marmalade" and for his own 1970s pop successes.
- 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: Ted Nolan Target entity description: Ted Nolan is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach, best known for winning the Jack Adams Award as NHL coach of the year with the Buffalo Sabres and for his advocacy for Indigenous peoples in sport.
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A.
Steve Nolan
Steve Nolan is a fictional character appearing in the 1977 film "American Woman."
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B.
David Nolan
David Nolan is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals, including politicians, athletes, and fictional characters.
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C.
Graham Nolan
Graham Nolan is an American comic book artist best known for co-creating the Batman villain Bane and his extensive work on DC Comics titles.
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D.
Kevin Nolan
Kevin Nolan is an English former professional footballer best known as a goal-scoring midfielder for clubs such as Bolton Wanderers, Newcastle United, and West Ham United.
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E.
Kenny Nolan
Kenny Nolan is an American songwriter and singer best known for co-writing the hit song "Lady Marmalade" and for his own 1970s pop successes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian
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human ⓘ ice hockey coach ⓘ ice hockey player ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Jack Adams Award
NERFINISHED
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NHL Coach of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ OHL Coach of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ QMJHL Coach of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coachedTeam |
Buffalo Sabres
NERFINISHED
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Latvia men's national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ Moncton Wildcats NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Islanders NERFINISHED ⓘ Poland men's national ice hockey team NERFINISHED ⓘ Rochester Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-04-07 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Detroit Red Wings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| draftLeague | NHL Entry Draft ⓘ |
| draftPickNumber | 78 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ojibwe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Nolan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Indigenous rights in sport
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ice hockey coaching ⓘ |
| founded | Ted Nolan Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Ted NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height |
185 cm
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6 ft 1 in ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn |
American Hockey League
NERFINISHED
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National Hockey League NERFINISHED ⓘ Ontario Hockey League NERFINISHED ⓘ Quebec Major Junior Hockey League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leaguePlayedIn | National Hockey League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Garden River First Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ted Nolan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | advocacy for Indigenous peoples in sport ⓘ |
| occupation |
ice hockey coach
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ice hockey player ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Garden River First Nation, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Adirondack Red Wings
NERFINISHED
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Detroit Red Wings NERFINISHED ⓘ Kansas City Red Wings NERFINISHED ⓘ Pittsburgh Penguins NERFINISHED ⓘ Rochester Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ Saginaw Gears NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | left wing ⓘ |
| residence | Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shoots | left ⓘ |
| weight | 190 lb ⓘ |
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: Ted Nolan Description of subject: Ted Nolan is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach, best known for winning the Jack Adams Award as NHL coach of the year with the Buffalo Sabres and for his advocacy for Indigenous peoples in sport.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.