Paul Devorski
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Paul Devorski is a retired Canadian National Hockey League referee known for officiating numerous high-profile games over his long career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Devorski canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1746303 — 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: Paul Devorski Context triple: [1998 NHL All-Star Game, referee, Paul Devorski]
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A.
Michael Graydon
Michael Graydon is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who served as a leading commander of British fighter aviation during the late 20th century.
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B.
Michael Nylander
Michael Nylander is a Swedish former professional ice hockey center who played over 900 NHL games and was known for his playmaking skills with teams such as the New York Rangers and Washington Capitals.
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C.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
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D.
Colin Kroll
Colin Kroll was an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the short-form video platform Vine and the mobile trivia game HQ Trivia.
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E.
Keith Keller
Keith Keller is a film industry figure best known as a co-founder of the Seattle International Film Festival, one of the largest and most respected film festivals in the United States.
- 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: Paul Devorski Target entity description: Paul Devorski is a retired Canadian National Hockey League referee known for officiating numerous high-profile games over his long career.
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A.
Michael Graydon
Michael Graydon is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who served as a leading commander of British fighter aviation during the late 20th century.
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B.
Michael Nylander
Michael Nylander is a Swedish former professional ice hockey center who played over 900 NHL games and was known for his playmaking skills with teams such as the New York Rangers and Washington Capitals.
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C.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
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D.
Colin Kroll
Colin Kroll was an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the short-form video platform Vine and the mobile trivia game HQ Trivia.
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E.
Keith Keller
Keith Keller is a film industry figure best known as a co-founder of the Seattle International Film Festival, one of the largest and most respected film festivals in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
National Hockey League referee
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human ⓘ ice hockey referee ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| careerStatus | retired ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| employer | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| familyName | Devorski ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
professional ice hockey
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sports officiating ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasEmployer |
NHL
ⓘ
linked to:
National Hockey League
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| hasPartOrRoleIn | National Hockey League games ⓘ |
| isA | Canadian sports official ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
National Hockey League Officials Association
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linked to:
NHL Officials Association
|
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long career as an NHL referee
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officiating numerous high-profile NHL games ⓘ officiating playoff games in the NHL ⓘ |
| occupation | ice hockey referee ⓘ |
| positionPlayedOrRole | referee ⓘ |
| residence | Canada ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| typeOfSportOfficial | on-ice official ⓘ |
| workLocation | North America ⓘ |
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: Paul Devorski Description of subject: Paul Devorski is a retired Canadian National Hockey League referee known for officiating numerous high-profile games over his long career.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.