1987 Rugby World Cup
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The 1987 Rugby World Cup was the inaugural men's Rugby Union world championship tournament, co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia and ultimately won by the New Zealand national team.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 1987 Rugby World Cup canonical | 17 |
| Rugby World Cup 1987 | 2 |
| 1987 Rugby World Cup Final | 1 |
| 1987 Rugby World Cup final | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T362619 — 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: 1987 Rugby World Cup Context triple: [All Blacks, worldCupTitle, 1987 Rugby World Cup]
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1995 Rugby World Cup
The 1995 Rugby World Cup was a landmark international rugby union tournament remembered for South Africa’s emotional post-apartheid victory and its powerful role in national reconciliation.
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1990 FIFA World Cup
The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th edition of the men's international football championship, held in Italy and won by West Germany.
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C.
1974 FIFA World Cup
The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the 10th edition of the men's football world championship, held in West Germany and won by the host nation.
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Rugby League World Cup matches
Rugby League World Cup matches are international rugby league games in which national teams compete in the sport’s premier global tournament.
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E.
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.
- 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: 1987 Rugby World Cup Target entity description: The 1987 Rugby World Cup was the inaugural men's Rugby Union world championship tournament, co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia and ultimately won by the New Zealand national team.
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A.
1995 Rugby World Cup
The 1995 Rugby World Cup was a landmark international rugby union tournament remembered for South Africa’s emotional post-apartheid victory and its powerful role in national reconciliation.
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B.
1990 FIFA World Cup
The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th edition of the men's international football championship, held in Italy and won by West Germany.
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C.
1974 FIFA World Cup
The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the 10th edition of the men's football world championship, held in West Germany and won by the host nation.
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D.
Rugby League World Cup matches
Rugby League World Cup matches are international rugby league games in which national teams compete in the sport’s premier global tournament.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: 1987 Rugby World Cup Description of subject: The 1987 Rugby World Cup was the inaugural men's Rugby Union world championship tournament, co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia and ultimately won by the New Zealand national team.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
1987 Rugby World Cup Final
this entity surface form:
Rugby World Cup 1987
this entity surface form:
1987 Rugby World Cup final
this entity surface form:
Rugby World Cup 1987