1996 Cricket World Cup
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The 1996 Cricket World Cup was the sixth edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup, co-hosted by India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and notable for Sri Lanka’s first title win and several historic upsets.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 1996 Cricket World Cup canonical | 10 |
| 1996 Cricket World Cup final | 1 |
| ICC Cricket World Cup 1996 | 1 |
| Wills World Cup 1996 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1436270 — 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: 1996 Cricket World Cup Context triple: [Eden Gardens, hostedEvent, 1996 Cricket World Cup]
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A.
1999 Cricket World Cup
The 1999 Cricket World Cup was the seventh edition of the ICC's premier One Day International cricket tournament, held in England and won by Australia.
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B.
1992 Cricket World Cup
The 1992 Cricket World Cup was the fifth edition of the men's Cricket World Cup, notable for being the first to feature colored clothing, white balls, and day-night matches, and was won by Pakistan.
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C.
1987 Cricket World Cup
The 1987 Cricket World Cup was the fourth edition of the men's Cricket World Cup and the first to be held outside England, co-hosted by India and Pakistan.
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D.
2003 Cricket World Cup
The 2003 Cricket World Cup was the eighth edition of the ICC's premier One Day International cricket tournament, notable for Australia's dominant title win and being the first World Cup held in Africa.
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E.
1979 Cricket World Cup
The 1979 Cricket World Cup was the second edition of the men's Cricket World Cup, held in England and won by the West Indies.
- 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 Cricket World Cup Target entity description: The 1996 Cricket World Cup was the sixth edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup, co-hosted by India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and notable for Sri Lanka’s first title win and several historic upsets.
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A.
1999 Cricket World Cup
The 1999 Cricket World Cup was the seventh edition of the ICC's premier One Day International cricket tournament, held in England and won by Australia.
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B.
1992 Cricket World Cup
The 1992 Cricket World Cup was the fifth edition of the men's Cricket World Cup, notable for being the first to feature colored clothing, white balls, and day-night matches, and was won by Pakistan.
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C.
1987 Cricket World Cup
The 1987 Cricket World Cup was the fourth edition of the men's Cricket World Cup and the first to be held outside England, co-hosted by India and Pakistan.
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D.
2003 Cricket World Cup
The 2003 Cricket World Cup was the eighth edition of the ICC's premier One Day International cricket tournament, notable for Australia's dominant title win and being the first World Cup held in Africa.
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E.
1979 Cricket World Cup
The 1979 Cricket World Cup was the second edition of the men's Cricket World Cup, held in England and won by the West Indies.
- 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: 1996 Cricket World Cup Description of subject: The 1996 Cricket World Cup was the sixth edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup, co-hosted by India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and notable for Sri Lanka’s first title win and several historic upsets.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wills World Cup 1996
this entity surface form:
1996 Cricket World Cup final
this entity surface form:
ICC Cricket World Cup 1996