Oklahoma City Hornets
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The Oklahoma City Hornets were the temporary name and location of the New Orleans Hornets NBA franchise when it was relocated to Oklahoma City following Hurricane Katrina.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets | 4 |
| Oklahoma City Hornets canonical | 4 |
| New Orleans Hornets | 2 |
| New Orleans Hornets played as New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets | 1 |
| OKC Hornets | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3813722 — 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: Oklahoma City Hornets Context triple: [Tyronn Lue, playedFor, Oklahoma City Hornets]
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A.
Oklahoma City Thunder
The Oklahoma City Thunder are a professional NBA basketball team based in Oklahoma City, known for their passionate fan base and past stars like Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook.
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B.
Omaha Mavericks
The Omaha Mavericks are the athletic teams representing the University of Nebraska Omaha in NCAA Division I sports.
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C.
Memphis Grizzlies
The Memphis Grizzlies are a professional basketball team in the NBA known for their gritty, defense-oriented play and passionate fan base.
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D.
Charlotte Hornets
The Charlotte Hornets are a professional NBA basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina, competing in the Eastern Conference.
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E.
Utah Grizzlies
The Utah Grizzlies were a professional ice hockey team based in Utah that competed in the American Hockey League in the early 2000s.
- 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: Oklahoma City Hornets Target entity description: The Oklahoma City Hornets were the temporary name and location of the New Orleans Hornets NBA franchise when it was relocated to Oklahoma City following Hurricane Katrina.
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A.
Oklahoma City Thunder
The Oklahoma City Thunder are a professional NBA basketball team based in Oklahoma City, known for their passionate fan base and past stars like Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook.
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B.
Omaha Mavericks
The Omaha Mavericks are the athletic teams representing the University of Nebraska Omaha in NCAA Division I sports.
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C.
Memphis Grizzlies
The Memphis Grizzlies are a professional basketball team in the NBA known for their gritty, defense-oriented play and passionate fan base.
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D.
Charlotte Hornets
The Charlotte Hornets are a professional NBA basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina, competing in the Eastern Conference.
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E.
Utah Grizzlies
The Utah Grizzlies were a professional ice hockey team based in Utah that competed in the American Hockey League in the early 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Oklahoma City Hornets Description of subject: The Oklahoma City Hornets were the temporary name and location of the New Orleans Hornets NBA franchise when it was relocated to Oklahoma City following Hurricane Katrina.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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2005–06 NBA season
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New Orleans Hornets played as New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets
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