Punch McLean
E460162
Punch McLean was a prominent Canadian junior ice hockey coach best known for leading the New Westminster Bruins to multiple championships in the 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Punch McLean canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4701527 — 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: Punch McLean Context triple: [New Westminster Bruins, notableCoach, Punch McLean]
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A.
Norval Sinclair Marley
Norval Sinclair Marley was the English-born father of reggae legend Bob Marley, known primarily for his brief relationship with Bob’s mother in Jamaica and his influence on Bob’s mixed heritage.
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B.
Lenny McLean
Lenny McLean was a British bare-knuckle boxer, bouncer, and actor, best known for his tough-guy persona and roles in gritty crime films.
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C.
Alan Black
Alan Black is a Northern Irish man known for being the sole survivor of the 1976 Kingsmill massacre during the Troubles.
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D.
Joseph McNeil
Joseph McNeil is an American civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped spark the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
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E.
Reo Fortune
Reo Fortune was a New Zealand social anthropologist known for his fieldwork in Melanesia and his early contributions to psychological anthropology.
- 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: Punch McLean Target entity description: Punch McLean was a prominent Canadian junior ice hockey coach best known for leading the New Westminster Bruins to multiple championships in the 1970s.
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A.
Norval Sinclair Marley
Norval Sinclair Marley was the English-born father of reggae legend Bob Marley, known primarily for his brief relationship with Bob’s mother in Jamaica and his influence on Bob’s mixed heritage.
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B.
Lenny McLean
Lenny McLean was a British bare-knuckle boxer, bouncer, and actor, best known for his tough-guy persona and roles in gritty crime films.
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C.
Alan Black
Alan Black is a Northern Irish man known for being the sole survivor of the 1976 Kingsmill massacre during the Troubles.
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D.
Joseph McNeil
Joseph McNeil is an American civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped spark the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
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E.
Reo Fortune
Reo Fortune was a New Zealand social anthropologist known for his fieldwork in Melanesia and his early contributions to psychological anthropology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian
ⓘ
human ⓘ ice hockey coach ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ New Westminster ⓘ |
| coachedLevel | major junior ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ice hockey management
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sports coaching ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | McLean ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Punch ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| leagueCoachedIn | Western Hockey League ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
coaching New Westminster Bruins to consecutive Memorial Cup appearances
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leading New Westminster Bruins to multiple championships in the 1970s ⓘ |
| notableFor |
coaching the New Westminster Bruins
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prominence in Canadian junior ice hockey ⓘ |
| occupation |
ice hockey coach
ⓘ
ice hockey executive ⓘ |
| position | head coach ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| sportRole | junior ice hockey coach ⓘ |
| teamCoached | New Westminster Bruins ⓘ |
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: Punch McLean Description of subject: Punch McLean was a prominent Canadian junior ice hockey coach best known for leading the New Westminster Bruins to multiple championships in the 1970s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.