2008 Woodward Stakes
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The 2008 Woodward Stakes was a prestigious Grade I thoroughbred horse race at Saratoga Race Course, remembered in particular for being won by the champion racehorse Curlin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 2008 Woodward Stakes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4412810 — 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: 2008 Woodward Stakes Context triple: [Curlin, notableWin, 2008 Woodward Stakes]
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A.
1996 Woodward Stakes
The 1996 Woodward Stakes was a prestigious Grade I thoroughbred horse race at Belmont Park, remembered as one of the key victories in the illustrious career of champion racehorse Cigar.
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B.
1995 Woodward Stakes
The 1995 Woodward Stakes was a prestigious Grade I thoroughbred horse race at Belmont Park, remembered as one of the key victories in Cigar’s dominant Horse of the Year campaign.
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C.
2008 Stephen Foster Handicap
The 2008 Stephen Foster Handicap was a Grade I American thoroughbred horse race at Churchill Downs, best known as a major victory in the illustrious career of champion racehorse Curlin.
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D.
Eclipse Stakes
Eclipse Stakes is a prestigious Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain for three-year-olds and up, run annually over 1¼ miles at Sandown Park.
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E.
Sword Dancer Stakes
The Sword Dancer Stakes is a prestigious Grade I American thoroughbred horse race run on turf at Saratoga Race Course, typically attracting top long-distance turf specialists.
- 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: 2008 Woodward Stakes Target entity description: The 2008 Woodward Stakes was a prestigious Grade I thoroughbred horse race at Saratoga Race Course, remembered in particular for being won by the champion racehorse Curlin.
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A.
1996 Woodward Stakes
The 1996 Woodward Stakes was a prestigious Grade I thoroughbred horse race at Belmont Park, remembered as one of the key victories in the illustrious career of champion racehorse Cigar.
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B.
1995 Woodward Stakes
The 1995 Woodward Stakes was a prestigious Grade I thoroughbred horse race at Belmont Park, remembered as one of the key victories in Cigar’s dominant Horse of the Year campaign.
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C.
2008 Stephen Foster Handicap
The 2008 Stephen Foster Handicap was a Grade I American thoroughbred horse race at Churchill Downs, best known as a major victory in the illustrious career of champion racehorse Curlin.
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D.
Eclipse Stakes
Eclipse Stakes is a prestigious Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain for three-year-olds and up, run annually over 1¼ miles at Sandown Park.
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E.
Sword Dancer Stakes
The Sword Dancer Stakes is a prestigious Grade I American thoroughbred horse race run on turf at Saratoga Race Course, typically attracting top long-distance turf specialists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Grade I stakes race
ⓘ
horse race ⓘ |
| ageQualification | three-year-olds and up ⓘ |
| association | New York Racing Association ⓘ |
| chronology |
follows 2007 Woodward Stakes
ⓘ
precedes 2009 Woodward Stakes ⓘ |
| city | Saratoga Springs, New York ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| date | 2008-08-30 ⓘ |
| distance |
1 1/8 miles
ⓘ
9 furlongs ⓘ |
| division | open company ⓘ |
| grade | Grade I ⓘ |
| gradeLevelAtTime | Grade I ⓘ |
| location | Saratoga Race Course ⓘ |
| notableFor | victory by champion Curlin ⓘ |
| partOf | Woodward Stakes ⓘ |
| purse | $500,000 ⓘ |
| raceCourse | Saratoga Race Course ⓘ |
| sport | Thoroughbred horse racing ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| surface | dirt ⓘ |
| timingSystem | dirt track timer ⓘ |
| trackConfiguration | left-handed ⓘ |
| winningHorse | Curlin ⓘ |
| winningJockey |
Robby Albarado
ⓘ
linked to:
Robbie Albarado
|
| winningOwner |
Midnight Cry Stable
ⓘ
Stonestreet Stables ⓘ |
| winningTrainer | Steve Asmussen ⓘ |
| wonBy | Curlin ⓘ |
| year | 2008 ⓘ |
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: 2008 Woodward Stakes Description of subject: The 2008 Woodward Stakes was a prestigious Grade I thoroughbred horse race at Saratoga Race Course, remembered in particular for being won by the champion racehorse Curlin.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.