Neal Broten
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National Hockey League player
Olympic gold medalist
Olympic ice hockey player for the United States
human
ice hockey player
Neal Broten is an American former ice hockey center best known for winning a gold medal with the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic team and later becoming an NHL star and Stanley Cup champion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Neal Broten canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2020770 — 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: Neal Broten Context triple: [1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team, player, Neal Broten]
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A.
Wayne Merry
Wayne Merry is an American climber best known as one of the team members who made the historic first ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
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B.
David Kirk
David Kirk is a former New Zealand rugby union scrum-half best known for captaining the All Blacks to their first Rugby World Cup victory in 1987.
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C.
Pete Knight
Pete Knight was a renowned American test pilot and astronautical engineer best known for setting the world speed record for winged aircraft in the X-15 rocket plane.
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D.
Jeff Richmond
Jeff Richmond is an American composer, producer, and director known for his work on television comedies such as "30 Rock" and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."
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E.
Robin Yount
Robin Yount is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball shortstop and center fielder who spent his entire 20-year career with the Milwaukee Brewers and won two American League MVP awards.
- 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: Neal Broten Target entity description: Neal Broten is an American former ice hockey center best known for winning a gold medal with the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic team and later becoming an NHL star and Stanley Cup champion.
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A.
Wayne Merry
Wayne Merry is an American climber best known as one of the team members who made the historic first ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
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B.
David Kirk
David Kirk is a former New Zealand rugby union scrum-half best known for captaining the All Blacks to their first Rugby World Cup victory in 1987.
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C.
Pete Knight
Pete Knight was a renowned American test pilot and astronautical engineer best known for setting the world speed record for winged aircraft in the X-15 rocket plane.
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D.
Jeff Richmond
Jeff Richmond is an American composer, producer, and director known for his work on television comedies such as "30 Rock" and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."
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E.
Robin Yount
Robin Yount is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball shortstop and center fielder who spent his entire 20-year career with the Milwaukee Brewers and won two American League MVP awards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Neal Broten Description of subject: Neal Broten is an American former ice hockey center best known for winning a gold medal with the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic team and later becoming an NHL star and Stanley Cup champion.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.