men's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics
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The men's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics was the athletics competition in which American jumper Cornelius Johnson won the gold medal amid the politically charged atmosphere of Nazi-era Berlin.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5378204 — 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 high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics Context triple: [Cornelius Johnson, event, men's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics]
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men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics
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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Continental jumping championships
Continental jumping championships are major international equestrian show jumping competitions held at the continental level under the governance of the FEI.
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C.
Olympic Jumping Complex
The Olympic Jumping Complex is a ski jumping and winter sports venue in Lake Placid, New York, originally built for the Winter Olympics and now used for training and competitions.
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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.
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Dick Fosbury
Dick Fosbury was an American high jumper who revolutionized the sport by introducing the "Fosbury Flop" technique, which he used to win gold at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
- 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 high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics Target entity description: The men's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics was the athletics competition in which American jumper Cornelius Johnson won the gold medal amid the politically charged atmosphere of Nazi-era Berlin.
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A.
men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics
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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B.
Continental jumping championships
Continental jumping championships are major international equestrian show jumping competitions held at the continental level under the governance of the FEI.
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C.
Olympic Jumping Complex
The Olympic Jumping Complex is a ski jumping and winter sports venue in Lake Placid, New York, originally built for the Winter Olympics and now used for training and competitions.
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D.
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.
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E.
Dick Fosbury
Dick Fosbury was an American high jumper who revolutionized the sport by introducing the "Fosbury Flop" technique, which he used to win gold at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
- F. None of above. chosen
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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 high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics Description of subject: The men's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics was the athletics competition in which American jumper Cornelius Johnson won the gold medal amid the politically charged atmosphere of Nazi-era Berlin.
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