1936 Winter Olympics
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The 1936 Winter Olympics were the fourth Winter Games, held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and are historically notable for taking place under Nazi rule shortly before World War II.
All labels observed (1)
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| 1936 Winter Olympics canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1957586 — 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: 1936 Winter Olympics Context triple: [1932 Winter Olympics, nextWinterOlympics, 1936 Winter Olympics]
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1932 Winter Olympics
The 1932 Winter Olympics were the third edition of the Winter Games, held in Lake Placid, New York, and marked by the participation of 17 nations during the early years of the modern Olympic winter sports tradition.
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1928 Winter Olympics
The 1928 Winter Olympics were the second edition of the Winter Games, held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and marked the first time a separate Winter Olympics took place in a different country from the Summer Games of the same year.
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1924 Winter Olympics
The 1924 Winter Olympics, held in Chamonix, France, were the inaugural Winter Games of the modern Olympic movement, featuring sports such as ice hockey, figure skating, and Nordic skiing events.
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1956 Winter Olympics
The 1956 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, marking the first Winter Games to be televised internationally.
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1936 Summer Olympics (Berlin)
The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin were an international multi-sport event infamous for their use as a Nazi propaganda showcase and notable for athletic feats such as Jesse Owens’ four gold medals.
- 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: 1936 Winter Olympics Target entity description: The 1936 Winter Olympics were the fourth Winter Games, held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and are historically notable for taking place under Nazi rule shortly before World War II.
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1932 Winter Olympics
The 1932 Winter Olympics were the third edition of the Winter Games, held in Lake Placid, New York, and marked by the participation of 17 nations during the early years of the modern Olympic winter sports tradition.
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B.
1928 Winter Olympics
The 1928 Winter Olympics were the second edition of the Winter Games, held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and marked the first time a separate Winter Olympics took place in a different country from the Summer Games of the same year.
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C.
1924 Winter Olympics
The 1924 Winter Olympics, held in Chamonix, France, were the inaugural Winter Games of the modern Olympic movement, featuring sports such as ice hockey, figure skating, and Nordic skiing events.
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1956 Winter Olympics
The 1956 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, marking the first Winter Games to be televised internationally.
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E.
1936 Summer Olympics (Berlin)
The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin were an international multi-sport event infamous for their use as a Nazi propaganda showcase and notable for athletic feats such as Jesse Owens’ four gold medals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: 1936 Winter Olympics Description of subject: The 1936 Winter Olympics were the fourth Winter Games, held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and are historically notable for taking place under Nazi rule shortly before World War II.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.