Connor McDavid
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Connor McDavid is a Canadian professional ice hockey center and captain of the Edmonton Oilers, widely regarded as one of the most talented and dominant players in modern NHL history.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Connor McDavid canonical | 14 |
| Connor Andrew McDavid | 1 |
| McDavid | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T484166 — 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: Connor McDavid Context triple: [Hart Memorial Trophy, notableMultipleWinners, Connor McDavid]
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A.
Sidney Crosby
Sidney Crosby is a Canadian professional ice hockey center widely regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation and a longtime captain and star of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the NHL.
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B.
Evgeni Malkin
Evgeni Malkin is a Russian professional ice hockey center and multiple-time Stanley Cup champion widely regarded as one of the NHL’s elite players of his era.
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C.
Patrick Kane
Patrick Kane is an American professional ice hockey right winger widely regarded as one of the NHL’s most skilled offensive players and a multiple-time Stanley Cup champion.
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D.
Scott Malkin
Scott Malkin is an American businessman and investor best known as a co-owner of the NHL’s New York Islanders and for his work in international retail real estate.
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E.
Zdeno Chara
Zdeno Chára is a Slovak former professional ice hockey defenseman renowned for his towering height, powerful shot, and long tenure as captain in the NHL.
- 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: Connor McDavid Target entity description: Connor McDavid is a Canadian professional ice hockey center and captain of the Edmonton Oilers, widely regarded as one of the most talented and dominant players in modern NHL history.
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A.
Sidney Crosby
Sidney Crosby is a Canadian professional ice hockey center widely regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation and a longtime captain and star of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the NHL.
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B.
Evgeni Malkin
Evgeni Malkin is a Russian professional ice hockey center and multiple-time Stanley Cup champion widely regarded as one of the NHL’s elite players of his era.
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C.
Patrick Kane
Patrick Kane is an American professional ice hockey right winger widely regarded as one of the NHL’s most skilled offensive players and a multiple-time Stanley Cup champion.
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D.
Scott Malkin
Scott Malkin is an American businessman and investor best known as a co-owner of the NHL’s New York Islanders and for his work in international retail real estate.
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E.
Zdeno Chara
Zdeno Chára is a Slovak former professional ice hockey defenseman renowned for his towering height, powerful shot, and long tenure as captain in the NHL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
National Hockey League player
ⓘ
human ⓘ ice hockey centre ⓘ professional ice hockey player ⓘ |
| captainOf | Edmonton Oilers ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1997-01-13 ⓘ |
| draftedBy | Edmonton Oilers ⓘ |
| draftLeague |
NHL
ⓘ
linked to:
National Hockey League
|
| draftPosition | 1st overall ⓘ |
| draftRound | 1 ⓘ |
| draftYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| familyName |
McDavid
ⓘ
linked to:
Connor McDavid
|
| fullName |
Connor Andrew McDavid
ⓘ
linked to:
Connor McDavid
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Connor ⓘ |
| hasRole | team captain ⓘ |
| hasWonAward |
Art Ross Trophy
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Hart Memorial Trophy ⓘ IIHF World Championship gold medal ⓘ
linked to:
IIHF World Championship
NHL All-Star selection ⓘ
linked to:
NHL First All-Star Team
NHL First All-Star Team selection ⓘ
linked to:
NHL First All-Star Team
Ted Lindsay Award ⓘ World Junior Championship gold medal ⓘ
linked to:
IIHF World Junior Championship
|
| height |
about 185 cm
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about 6 ft 1 in ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 97 ⓘ |
| juniorLeague | Ontario Hockey League ⓘ |
| juniorTeam | Erie Otters ⓘ |
| knownFor |
exceptional speed
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offensive production ⓘ puck handling ⓘ |
| league | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| nationalTeam | Canada ⓘ |
| occupation | professional athlete ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
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linked to:
Richmond Hill, Ontario
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| playsForNationalTeam |
Team Canada
ⓘ
linked to:
Canada men's national ice hockey team
|
| playsIn |
Pacific Division
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Western Conference ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | centre ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
elite playmaker
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elite skater ⓘ one of the best players in modern NHL history ⓘ |
| residence |
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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linked to:
Edmonton
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| shootingHand | left ⓘ |
| shoots | left ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| team | Edmonton Oilers ⓘ |
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: Connor McDavid Description of subject: Connor McDavid is a Canadian professional ice hockey center and captain of the Edmonton Oilers, widely regarded as one of the most talented and dominant players in modern NHL history.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Connor McDavid
linked to: Connor McDavid