1996 NLL championship
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The 1996 NLL championship was the National Lacrosse League title series in which the Buffalo Bandits captured the league’s top honor for that season.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1996 NLL championship canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5463277 — 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: 1996 NLL championship Context triple: [Buffalo Bandits, leagueTitle, 1996 NLL championship]
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A.
National Lacrosse League
The National Lacrosse League is a professional indoor box lacrosse league in North America featuring teams from the United States and Canada.
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B.
1996 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1996 Stanley Cup Finals was the NHL championship series in which the Colorado Avalanche swept the Florida Panthers to win their first Stanley Cup.
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C.
1999 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1999 Stanley Cup Finals was the NHL championship series in which the Dallas Stars defeated the Buffalo Sabres in six games, clinched by Brett Hull’s controversial triple-overtime goal in Game 6.
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D.
1997 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1997 Stanley Cup Finals was the NHL championship series in which the Detroit Red Wings swept the Philadelphia Flyers to win their first Stanley Cup in 42 years.
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E.
1991 Canada Cup
The 1991 Canada Cup was an international ice hockey tournament featuring top national teams, held as the final edition of the Canada Cup series before it was replaced by the World Cup of Hockey.
- 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: 1996 NLL championship Target entity description: The 1996 NLL championship was the National Lacrosse League title series in which the Buffalo Bandits captured the league’s top honor for that season.
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A.
National Lacrosse League
The National Lacrosse League is a professional indoor box lacrosse league in North America featuring teams from the United States and Canada.
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B.
1996 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1996 Stanley Cup Finals was the NHL championship series in which the Colorado Avalanche swept the Florida Panthers to win their first Stanley Cup.
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C.
1999 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1999 Stanley Cup Finals was the NHL championship series in which the Dallas Stars defeated the Buffalo Sabres in six games, clinched by Brett Hull’s controversial triple-overtime goal in Game 6.
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D.
1997 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1997 Stanley Cup Finals was the NHL championship series in which the Detroit Red Wings swept the Philadelphia Flyers to win their first Stanley Cup in 42 years.
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E.
1991 Canada Cup
The 1991 Canada Cup was an international ice hockey tournament featuring top national teams, held as the final edition of the Canada Cup series before it was replaced by the World Cup of Hockey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
National Lacrosse League championship series
ⓘ
sports championship ⓘ |
| champion | Buffalo Bandits ⓘ |
| competitionFormat | playoff championship series ⓘ |
| country |
Canada
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| followedBy | 1997 NLL championship ⓘ |
| hasParticipant | Buffalo Bandits ⓘ |
| league | National Lacrosse League ⓘ |
| level | professional ⓘ |
| organizedBy | National Lacrosse League ⓘ |
| precededBy | 1995 MILL championship ⓘ |
| season | 1996 NLL season ⓘ |
| sport | box lacrosse ⓘ |
| winner | Buffalo Bandits ⓘ |
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: 1996 NLL championship Description of subject: The 1996 NLL championship was the National Lacrosse League title series in which the Buffalo Bandits captured the league’s top honor for that season.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.