1981 NBA Finals
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The 1981 NBA Finals was the championship series concluding the 1980–81 NBA season, featuring the Boston Celtics defeating the Houston Rockets to claim the league title.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1981 NBA Finals canonical | 5 |
| Boston Celtics 1981 NBA championship team | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T610472 — 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: 1981 NBA Finals Context triple: [Cedric Maxwell, awardSeason, 1981 NBA Finals]
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1979 NBA Finals
The 1979 NBA Finals was the championship series in which the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Washington Bullets to capture their first and only NBA title.
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1977 NBA Finals
The 1977 NBA Finals was the championship series in which the Portland Trail Blazers, led by coach Jack Ramsay and star center Bill Walton, defeated the Philadelphia 76ers to win the franchise’s first NBA title.
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1976 NBA Finals
The 1976 NBA Finals was a championship series between the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns, best remembered for its dramatic triple-overtime Game 5 and the Celtics’ eventual title victory.
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1969 NBA Finals
The 1969 NBA Finals was the championship series in which the Boston Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers and during which the first NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award was presented.
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NBA Finals games
NBA Finals games are the championship series of the National Basketball Association, determining the league’s annual champion in a best-of-seven playoff between the Eastern and Western Conference winners.
- 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: 1981 NBA Finals Target entity description: The 1981 NBA Finals was the championship series concluding the 1980–81 NBA season, featuring the Boston Celtics defeating the Houston Rockets to claim the league title.
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A.
1979 NBA Finals
The 1979 NBA Finals was the championship series in which the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Washington Bullets to capture their first and only NBA title.
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B.
1977 NBA Finals
The 1977 NBA Finals was the championship series in which the Portland Trail Blazers, led by coach Jack Ramsay and star center Bill Walton, defeated the Philadelphia 76ers to win the franchise’s first NBA title.
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C.
1976 NBA Finals
The 1976 NBA Finals was a championship series between the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns, best remembered for its dramatic triple-overtime Game 5 and the Celtics’ eventual title victory.
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D.
1969 NBA Finals
The 1969 NBA Finals was the championship series in which the Boston Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers and during which the first NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award was presented.
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NBA Finals games
NBA Finals games are the championship series of the National Basketball Association, determining the league’s annual champion in a best-of-seven playoff between the Eastern and Western Conference winners.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: 1981 NBA Finals Description of subject: The 1981 NBA Finals was the championship series concluding the 1980–81 NBA season, featuring the Boston Celtics defeating the Houston Rockets to claim the league title.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.