CFL playoffs
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The CFL playoffs are the Canadian Football League’s postseason elimination tournament that determines which teams advance to the Grey Cup championship game.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| CFL playoffs canonical | 9 |
| CFL Grey Cup playoffs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2692318 — 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: CFL playoffs Context triple: [Ottawa Redblacks, competesIn, CFL playoffs]
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A.
CFL Labour Day Classic
The CFL Labour Day Classic is an annual Canadian Football League rivalry game traditionally played on Labour Day weekend, featuring marquee matchups such as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats against their closest geographic rivals.
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B.
AFC playoffs
The AFC playoffs are the National Football League’s postseason tournament that determines which American Football Conference team advances to the Super Bowl.
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C.
CFL
The CFL (Canadian Football League) is Canada's professional gridiron football league, featuring teams such as the Toronto Argonauts competing for the Grey Cup championship.
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D.
CFL East Division
The CFL East Division is one of the two regional groupings in the Canadian Football League, comprising teams based in Eastern Canada that compete for a berth in the league's championship game, the Grey Cup.
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E.
CFL All-Star selections
CFL All-Star selections are annual honors recognizing the top-performing players at each position across the Canadian Football League.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: CFL playoffs Target entity description: The CFL playoffs are the Canadian Football League’s postseason elimination tournament that determines which teams advance to the Grey Cup championship game.
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A.
CFL Labour Day Classic
The CFL Labour Day Classic is an annual Canadian Football League rivalry game traditionally played on Labour Day weekend, featuring marquee matchups such as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats against their closest geographic rivals.
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B.
AFC playoffs
The AFC playoffs are the National Football League’s postseason tournament that determines which American Football Conference team advances to the Super Bowl.
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C.
CFL
The CFL (Canadian Football League) is Canada's professional gridiron football league, featuring teams such as the Toronto Argonauts competing for the Grey Cup championship.
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D.
CFL East Division
The CFL East Division is one of the two regional groupings in the Canadian Football League, comprising teams based in Eastern Canada that compete for a berth in the league's championship game, the Grey Cup.
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E.
CFL All-Star selections
CFL All-Star selections are annual honors recognizing the top-performing players at each position across the Canadian Football League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian Football League event
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elimination tournament ⓘ postseason tournament ⓘ sports competition ⓘ |
| broadcastIn | Canada ⓘ |
| broadcastOn |
RDS
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TSN ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | professional ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| determines | participants in the Grey Cup ⓘ |
| feature | crossover rule between divisions ⓘ |
| fieldType | Canadian football field ⓘ |
| firstSeasonWithCurrentName | 1958 CFL season ⓘ |
| follows | CFL regular season ⓘ |
| governingBody |
CFL Board of Governors
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linked to:
CFL
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| hasAudience | CFL fans ⓘ |
| hasConference |
East Division playoffs
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West Division playoffs ⓘ |
| hasFrequency | annual ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
English
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French ⓘ |
| hasNotableVenue | various CFL stadiums across Canada ⓘ |
| hasObjective | determine CFL champion ⓘ |
| hasRule |
higher-seeded team usually hosts playoff game
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overtime rules specific to CFL for tied playoff games ⓘ |
| hasTeamCountRange |
6 teams
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sometimes 5 teams (under crossover rule scenarios) ⓘ |
| includesStage |
Grey Cup
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division finals ⓘ division semi-finals ⓘ |
| organizedBy | Canadian Football League ⓘ |
| precededBy | interprovincial union playoffs in Canadian football ⓘ |
| qualificationBasedOn | division standings ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
CFL regular season standings
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Grey Cup ⓘ |
| seasonType | postseason ⓘ |
| sport | Canadian football ⓘ |
| timeZone | primarily North American time zones ⓘ |
| typicalStartMonth | November ⓘ |
| usesBallType | CFL regulation football ⓘ |
| usesFormat | single-elimination format ⓘ |
| winnerAdvancesTo |
Grey Cup championship game
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linked to:
Grey Cup
|
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: CFL playoffs Description of subject: The CFL playoffs are the Canadian Football League’s postseason elimination tournament that determines which teams advance to the Grey Cup championship game.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: CFL playoffs