2020–21 NHL season
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The 2020–21 NHL season was a pandemic-affected campaign marked by a shortened schedule, realigned divisions, and exclusively intra-divisional play before a modified playoff format.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 2020–21 NHL season canonical | 8 |
| NHL pandemic season realignment | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1640187 — 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: 2020–21 NHL season Context triple: [Central Division, temporaryRealignmentSeason, 2020–21 NHL season]
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A.
2021–22 NHL season
The 2021–22 NHL season was the 105th season of operation for the National Hockey League, notable for the league’s first year with the Seattle Kraken and new U.S. national broadcast deals with ESPN and TNT.
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B.
2019–20 NBA season
The 2019–20 NBA season was the league’s 74th campaign, notable for being interrupted and reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, including a suspended schedule and a resumed finish in the Orlando “bubble.”
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C.
NHL regular season
The NHL regular season is the main portion of the National Hockey League schedule in which teams play a set number of games to determine standings and qualification for the postseason.
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D.
NHL playoffs
The NHL playoffs are the National Hockey League’s annual postseason elimination tournament that determines the winner of the Stanley Cup.
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E.
NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement
The NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement is the labor contract between the National Hockey League and the players’ union that sets the rules for player employment, salaries, free agency, and league economics.
- 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: 2020–21 NHL season Target entity description: The 2020–21 NHL season was a pandemic-affected campaign marked by a shortened schedule, realigned divisions, and exclusively intra-divisional play before a modified playoff format.
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A.
2021–22 NHL season
The 2021–22 NHL season was the 105th season of operation for the National Hockey League, notable for the league’s first year with the Seattle Kraken and new U.S. national broadcast deals with ESPN and TNT.
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B.
2019–20 NBA season
The 2019–20 NBA season was the league’s 74th campaign, notable for being interrupted and reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, including a suspended schedule and a resumed finish in the Orlando “bubble.”
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C.
NHL regular season
The NHL regular season is the main portion of the National Hockey League schedule in which teams play a set number of games to determine standings and qualification for the postseason.
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D.
NHL playoffs
The NHL playoffs are the National Hockey League’s annual postseason elimination tournament that determines the winner of the Stanley Cup.
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E.
NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement
The NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement is the labor contract between the National Hockey League and the players’ union that sets the rules for player employment, salaries, free agency, and league economics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: 2020–21 NHL season Description of subject: The 2020–21 NHL season was a pandemic-affected campaign marked by a shortened schedule, realigned divisions, and exclusively intra-divisional play before a modified playoff format.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
NHL on NBC (historical)
subject linked to:
NHL on NBC (historical)
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East Division
linked to: 2020–21 NHL season