men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics
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The men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics was a marquee sprint event in Berlin that featured some of the era’s fastest athletes, including Jesse Owens and Tinus Osendarp, and became historically significant amid the Games’ charged political atmosphere.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics canonical | 1 |
| men’s 100 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics | 1 |
| men’s 200 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2612555 — 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: men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics Context triple: [Tinus Osendarp, notableEvent, men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics]
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10,000 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics
The 10,000 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics was a long-distance track event held in London as part of the athletics program, featuring top runners of the era competing over 25 laps of the track.
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Paavo Nurmi Games
Paavo Nurmi Games is an annual international track and field meeting held in Turku, Finland, honoring the legacy of legendary Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi.
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Marathón
Marathón is a professional football club from Honduras, known as one of the country's most prominent and historically successful teams.
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1991 World Championships in Athletics
The 1991 World Championships in Athletics was a major international track and field competition held in Tokyo, Japan, renowned for several historic performances and world records.
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Marathon
Marathon is an ancient town in northeastern Attica, Greece, best known as the site of the pivotal Battle of Marathon in 490 BC that inspired the modern long-distance race.
- 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: men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics Target entity description: The men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics was a marquee sprint event in Berlin that featured some of the era’s fastest athletes, including Jesse Owens and Tinus Osendarp, and became historically significant amid the Games’ charged political atmosphere.
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A.
10,000 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics
The 10,000 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics was a long-distance track event held in London as part of the athletics program, featuring top runners of the era competing over 25 laps of the track.
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B.
Paavo Nurmi Games
Paavo Nurmi Games is an annual international track and field meeting held in Turku, Finland, honoring the legacy of legendary Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi.
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C.
Marathón
Marathón is a professional football club from Honduras, known as one of the country's most prominent and historically successful teams.
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D.
1991 World Championships in Athletics
The 1991 World Championships in Athletics was a major international track and field competition held in Tokyo, Japan, renowned for several historic performances and world records.
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E.
Marathon
Marathon is an ancient town in northeastern Attica, Greece, best known as the site of the pivotal Battle of Marathon in 490 BC that inspired the modern long-distance race.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics Description of subject: The men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics was a marquee sprint event in Berlin that featured some of the era’s fastest athletes, including Jesse Owens and Tinus Osendarp, and became historically significant amid the Games’ charged political atmosphere.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
men’s 200 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics
men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics
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men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics
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this entity surface form:
men’s 100 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics