1987–88 NBA season
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The 1987–88 NBA season was a professional basketball campaign notable for featuring stars like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and culminating in the Los Angeles Lakers winning back-to-back championships.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1987–88 NBA season canonical | 1 |
| Los Angeles Lakers 1987–88 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T636342 — 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: 1987–88 NBA season Context triple: [Reggie Lewis, NBAdebutSeason, 1987–88 NBA season]
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1980–81 NBA season
The 1980–81 NBA season was the league campaign in which the Boston Celtics, led by stars like Larry Bird and Cedric Maxwell, captured the NBA championship.
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B.
1981 NBA Finals
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
1995–96 NBA season
The 1995–96 NBA season is best known for the Chicago Bulls’ record-setting 72–10 regular-season performance and subsequent NBA championship, widely regarded as one of the greatest team seasons in basketball history.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: 1987–88 NBA season Target entity description: The 1987–88 NBA season was a professional basketball campaign notable for featuring stars like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and culminating in the Los Angeles Lakers winning back-to-back championships.
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A.
1980–81 NBA season
The 1980–81 NBA season was the league campaign in which the Boston Celtics, led by stars like Larry Bird and Cedric Maxwell, captured the NBA championship.
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B.
1981 NBA Finals
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
1995–96 NBA season
The 1995–96 NBA season is best known for the Chicago Bulls’ record-setting 72–10 regular-season performance and subsequent NBA championship, widely regarded as one of the greatest team seasons in basketball history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: 1987–88 NBA season Description of subject: The 1987–88 NBA season was a professional basketball campaign notable for featuring stars like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and culminating in the Los Angeles Lakers winning back-to-back championships.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: 1987–88 NBA season