1998 IIHF World Championship
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The 1998 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, serving as the top annual world championship event for men's national teams that year.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1998 IIHF World Championship canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3032989 — 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: 1998 IIHF World Championship Context triple: [1999 IIHF World Championship, previousEdition, 1998 IIHF World Championship]
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A.
1999 IIHF World Championship
The 1999 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, serving as the top annual world championship event for national men’s teams that year.
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B.
1996 IIHF World Championship
The 1996 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, featuring top national teams competing for the world title.
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C.
1990 IIHF World Championship
The 1990 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, featuring top national teams competing for the world title.
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D.
2001 IIHF World Championship
The 2001 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, featuring top national teams competing for the world title.
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E.
2000 IIHF World Championship
The 2000 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, notable for featuring many of the world's top national teams competing for the annual world title.
- 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: 1998 IIHF World Championship Target entity description: The 1998 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, serving as the top annual world championship event for men's national teams that year.
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A.
1999 IIHF World Championship
The 1999 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, serving as the top annual world championship event for national men’s teams that year.
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B.
1996 IIHF World Championship
The 1996 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, featuring top national teams competing for the world title.
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C.
1990 IIHF World Championship
The 1990 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, featuring top national teams competing for the world title.
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D.
2001 IIHF World Championship
The 2001 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, featuring top national teams competing for the world title.
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E.
2000 IIHF World Championship
The 2000 IIHF World Championship was an international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, notable for featuring many of the world's top national teams competing for the annual world title.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IIHF World Championship
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international ice hockey tournament ⓘ |
| category |
1998 in ice hockey
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IIHF World Championship tournaments ⓘ
linked to:
IIHF World Championship
international ice hockey competitions ⓘ |
| competitionFormat | world championship tournament ⓘ |
| confederation | International Ice Hockey Federation ⓘ |
| followedBy | 1999 IIHF World Championship ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| gender | men ⓘ |
| governingBody | International Ice Hockey Federation ⓘ |
| hasEditionNumber |
62nd IIHF World Championship
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linked to:
2018 IIHF World Championship
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| level | men's senior national teams ⓘ |
| organizer | International Ice Hockey Federation ⓘ |
| partOf |
IIHF World Championship series
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linked to:
IIHF World Championship
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| precededBy | 1997 IIHF World Championship ⓘ |
| ruleSet | IIHF rules ⓘ |
| scope | world championship ⓘ |
| season | 1998 ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| sportType | team sport ⓘ |
| status | completed ⓘ |
| teamType | national teams ⓘ |
| typeOfCompetition | national team competition ⓘ |
| year | 1998 ⓘ |
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: 1998 IIHF World Championship Description of subject: The 1998 IIHF World Championship was an international ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation, serving as the top annual world championship event for men's national teams that year.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Kazakhstan men's national ice hockey team
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firstWorldChampionshipAppearance
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1998 IIHF World Championship
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subject linked to:
Finnish national ice hockey teams