Montreal Machine
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Montreal Machine was a short-lived professional American football team based in Montreal that competed in the World League of American Football in the early 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Montreal Machine canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10818354 — 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: Montreal Machine Context triple: [CFL East Division, formerTeam, Montreal Machine]
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A.
Victoriaville Tigres
The Victoriaville Tigres are a Canadian major junior ice hockey team based in Victoriaville, Quebec.
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B.
Montreal Royals
The Montreal Royals were a minor league baseball team best known as the Brooklyn Dodgers’ top farm club and the team for which Jackie Robinson broke professional baseball’s color barrier in 1946.
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C.
Quebec Aces
The Quebec Aces were a professional ice hockey team based in Quebec City, known for competing in senior and minor pro leagues and for developing future NHL stars such as Jean Béliveau.
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D.
Shawinigan Cataractes
The Shawinigan Cataractes are a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) based in Shawinigan, Quebec.
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E.
Montreal Wanderers
The Montreal Wanderers were an early 20th-century professional ice hockey team from Montreal, known for their multiple Stanley Cup championships and role in the formative years of organized pro 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: Montreal Machine Target entity description: Montreal Machine was a short-lived professional American football team based in Montreal that competed in the World League of American Football in the early 1990s.
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A.
Victoriaville Tigres
The Victoriaville Tigres are a Canadian major junior ice hockey team based in Victoriaville, Quebec.
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B.
Montreal Royals
The Montreal Royals were a minor league baseball team best known as the Brooklyn Dodgers’ top farm club and the team for which Jackie Robinson broke professional baseball’s color barrier in 1946.
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C.
Quebec Aces
The Quebec Aces were a professional ice hockey team based in Quebec City, known for competing in senior and minor pro leagues and for developing future NHL stars such as Jean Béliveau.
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D.
Shawinigan Cataractes
The Shawinigan Cataractes are a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) based in Shawinigan, Quebec.
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E.
Montreal Wanderers
The Montreal Wanderers were an early 20th-century professional ice hockey team from Montreal, known for their multiple Stanley Cup championships and role in the formative years of organized pro hockey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct sports team
ⓘ
professional American football team ⓘ |
| activeSeasons |
1991
ⓘ
1992 ⓘ |
| city | Montreal ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | professional ⓘ |
| conference | North American Conference ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1992 ⓘ |
| division | North American East Division ⓘ |
| era | early 1990s ⓘ |
| founded | 1991 ⓘ |
| governingBody |
World League of American Football organization
ⓘ
linked to:
World League of American Football
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| homeCity | Montreal, Quebec, Canada ⓘ |
| homeField |
Olympic Stadium (Montreal)
ⓘ
linked to:
Stade olympique de Montréal
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| homeGamesLocation | Montreal ⓘ |
| homeStadium | Olympic Stadium ⓘ |
| league | World League of American Football ⓘ |
| notableFeature | only Canadian-based team in the World League of American Football ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1991 WLAF season
ⓘ
1992 WLAF season ⓘ
linked to:
1991 WLAF season
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| reasonForEnd | suspension of North American operations of the WLAF after 1992 season ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| shortName | Machine ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| teamColors |
black
ⓘ
purple ⓘ silver ⓘ white ⓘ |
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: Montreal Machine Description of subject: Montreal Machine was a short-lived professional American football team based in Montreal that competed in the World League of American Football in the early 1990s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.