Quad City Flames
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The Quad City Flames were a former American Hockey League team based in Moline, Illinois, that served as the primary minor-league affiliate of the NHL's Calgary Flames.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quad City Flames canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7534200 — 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: Quad City Flames Context triple: [Brett Sutter, memberOfSportsTeam, Quad City Flames]
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A.
Quad City Thunder
Quad City Thunder was a professional basketball team in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) based in the Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa.
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B.
Peoria Rivermen
The Peoria Rivermen are a professional ice hockey team that has served as a minor-league affiliate for NHL franchises.
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C.
Fort Wayne Komets
The Fort Wayne Komets are a professional minor league ice hockey team based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, known for their long history and strong regional fan base.
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D.
Schaumburg Flyers
The Schaumburg Flyers were an independent professional baseball team based in Schaumburg, Illinois, that competed in the Northern League.
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E.
Indianapolis Ice
The Indianapolis Ice were a professional minor league ice hockey team based in Indianapolis, Indiana, that competed primarily in the International Hockey League from the late 1980s through the 1990s.
- 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: Quad City Flames Target entity description: The Quad City Flames were a former American Hockey League team based in Moline, Illinois, that served as the primary minor-league affiliate of the NHL's Calgary Flames.
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A.
Quad City Thunder
Quad City Thunder was a professional basketball team in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) based in the Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa.
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B.
Peoria Rivermen
The Peoria Rivermen are a professional ice hockey team that has served as a minor-league affiliate for NHL franchises.
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C.
Fort Wayne Komets
The Fort Wayne Komets are a professional minor league ice hockey team based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, known for their long history and strong regional fan base.
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D.
Schaumburg Flyers
The Schaumburg Flyers were an independent professional baseball team based in Schaumburg, Illinois, that competed in the Northern League.
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E.
Indianapolis Ice
The Indianapolis Ice were a professional minor league ice hockey team based in Indianapolis, Indiana, that competed primarily in the International Hockey League from the late 1980s through the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct ice hockey team
ⓘ
ice hockey team ⓘ |
| affiliationType | primary minor-league affiliate ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | QC Flames ⓘ |
| basedInMetropolitanArea |
Quad Cities
ⓘ
linked to:
Quad Cities metropolitan area
|
| city | Moline, Illinois ⓘ |
| competitionLevel |
AHL
ⓘ
linked to:
American Hockey League
|
| conference | Western Conference ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision | Rock Island County, Illinois ⓘ |
| dissolved | 2009 ⓘ |
| division | West Division ⓘ |
| founded | 2007 ⓘ |
| homeArena | iWireless Center ⓘ |
| homeCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| homeGamesPlayedAt | iWireless Center ⓘ |
| jerseyColor |
black
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| league | American Hockey League ⓘ |
| level | minor league ⓘ |
| location | Moline, Illinois ⓘ |
| NHLaffiliate | Calgary Flames ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Calgary Flames ⓘ |
| relocatedFrom | Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights ⓘ |
| relocatedTo | Abbotsford Heat ⓘ |
| servedAsAffiliateOf | Calgary Flames ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
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: Quad City Flames Description of subject: The Quad City Flames were a former American Hockey League team based in Moline, Illinois, that served as the primary minor-league affiliate of the NHL's Calgary Flames.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.