Mark Thomas Pavelich
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Mark Thomas Pavelich was an American professional ice hockey center best known for winning a gold medal with the 1980 U.S. Olympic "Miracle on Ice" team and later playing in the NHL.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mark Thomas Pavelich canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9355279 — 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: Mark Thomas Pavelich Context triple: [Mark Pavelich, fullName, Mark Thomas Pavelich]
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A.
Marcel Dionne
Marcel Dionne is a Hall of Fame Canadian center and one of the most prolific scorers in NHL history, best known for his high point totals during the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Luc Robitaille
Luc Robitaille is a Hall of Fame Canadian left winger who became one of the highest-scoring players in NHL history and a franchise icon for the Los Angeles Kings.
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C.
Roger Piantoni
Roger Piantoni was a prominent French footballer of the 1950s and 1960s, renowned as an attacking midfielder and key figure for both Stade de Reims and the French national team.
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D.
Patrice Robitaille
Patrice Robitaille is a Canadian actor known for his work in Quebec cinema and television, including prominent roles in acclaimed French-language films.
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E.
Frank Mahovlich
Frank Mahovlich is a Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey left winger who starred in the NHL for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens, winning multiple Stanley Cups and later serving as a Canadian senator.
- 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: Mark Thomas Pavelich Target entity description: Mark Thomas Pavelich was an American professional ice hockey center best known for winning a gold medal with the 1980 U.S. Olympic "Miracle on Ice" team and later playing in the NHL.
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A.
Marcel Dionne
Marcel Dionne is a Hall of Fame Canadian center and one of the most prolific scorers in NHL history, best known for his high point totals during the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Luc Robitaille
Luc Robitaille is a Hall of Fame Canadian left winger who became one of the highest-scoring players in NHL history and a franchise icon for the Los Angeles Kings.
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C.
Roger Piantoni
Roger Piantoni was a prominent French footballer of the 1950s and 1960s, renowned as an attacking midfielder and key figure for both Stade de Reims and the French national team.
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D.
Patrice Robitaille
Patrice Robitaille is a Canadian actor known for his work in Quebec cinema and television, including prominent roles in acclaimed French-language films.
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E.
Frank Mahovlich
Frank Mahovlich is a Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey left winger who starred in the NHL for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens, winning multiple Stanley Cups and later serving as a Canadian senator.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic gold medalist
ⓘ
human ⓘ ice hockey player ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Olympic gold medal ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Minnesota, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Minnesota
|
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-02-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-03-04 ⓘ |
| draftStatus | undrafted in NHL ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Minnesota Duluth ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of Croatian descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Pavelich ⓘ |
| fullName | Mark Thomas Pavelich ⓘ |
| givenName | Mark ⓘ |
| height |
173 cm
ⓘ
5 ft 8 in ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 16 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
NHL career with the New York Rangers
ⓘ
member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic "Miracle on Ice" team ⓘ |
| league | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
HC Lugano
ⓘ
Minnesota Moose ⓘ Minnesota North Stars ⓘ
linked to:
Minnesota North Stars (partial use)
New York Rangers ⓘ San Jose Sharks ⓘ United States men's national ice hockey team ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent | assisted game-winning goal against the Soviet Union in 1980 "Miracle on Ice" game ⓘ |
| notableWork | member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic "Miracle on Ice" ice hockey team ⓘ |
| occupation | ice hockey player ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1980 Winter Olympics men's ice hockey tournament
ⓘ
linked to:
1980 Winter Olympics
|
| participatedIn | 1980 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Eveleth, Minnesota, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Eveleth, Minnesota
|
| placeOfDeath | Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States ⓘ |
| playedForCollegeTeam |
Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs men's ice hockey
ⓘ
linked to:
University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs
|
| playedIn |
NHL playoffs
ⓘ
NHL regular season ⓘ Swiss National League A ⓘ
linked to:
Swiss National League
|
| positionPlayed | center ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin | Iron Range, Minnesota ⓘ |
| residence |
Minnesota, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Minnesota
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| shoots | right ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| weight |
170 lb
ⓘ
77 kg ⓘ |
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: Mark Thomas Pavelich Description of subject: Mark Thomas Pavelich was an American professional ice hockey center best known for winning a gold medal with the 1980 U.S. Olympic "Miracle on Ice" team and later playing in the NHL.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.