Colorado Rockies (NHL)
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The Colorado Rockies were a former NHL franchise based in Denver that played from 1976 to 1982 before moving to become the New Jersey Devils.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colorado Rockies (NHL) canonical | 15 |
| Colorado Rockies | 3 |
| Colorado Rockies (WHA) | 1 |
| Colorado Rockies / New Jersey Devils franchise | 1 |
| Kansas City Scouts – Colorado Rockies – New Jersey Devils | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T926369 — 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: Colorado Rockies (NHL) Context triple: [New Jersey Devils, relocatedFrom, Colorado Rockies (NHL)]
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A.
Colorado Avalanche
The Colorado Avalanche are a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL) known for multiple Stanley Cup championships and a passionate fan base.
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B.
Arizona Coyotes
The Arizona Coyotes are a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League based in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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C.
Colorado Rockies
The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball team based in Denver, Colorado, known for playing their home games at Coors Field and for their high-altitude, offense-friendly environment.
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D.
St. Louis Blues
The St. Louis Blues are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis that competes in the National Hockey League and has won multiple conference titles and a Stanley Cup championship.
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E.
Minnesota Wild
The Minnesota Wild are a professional ice hockey team based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, competing in the NHL’s Western Conference.
- 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: Colorado Rockies (NHL) Target entity description: The Colorado Rockies were a former NHL franchise based in Denver that played from 1976 to 1982 before moving to become the New Jersey Devils.
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A.
Colorado Avalanche
The Colorado Avalanche are a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL) known for multiple Stanley Cup championships and a passionate fan base.
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B.
Arizona Coyotes
The Arizona Coyotes are a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League based in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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C.
Colorado Rockies
The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball team based in Denver, Colorado, known for playing their home games at Coors Field and for their high-altitude, offense-friendly environment.
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D.
St. Louis Blues
The St. Louis Blues are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis that competes in the National Hockey League and has won multiple conference titles and a Stanley Cup championship.
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E.
Minnesota Wild
The Minnesota Wild are a professional ice hockey team based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, competing in the NHL’s Western Conference.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
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: Colorado Rockies (NHL) Description of subject: The Colorado Rockies were a former NHL franchise based in Denver that played from 1976 to 1982 before moving to become the New Jersey Devils.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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