1980 Summer Olympics basketball tournament
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The 1980 Summer Olympics basketball tournament was the men's and women's international basketball competition held in Moscow as part of the 1980 Olympic Games, notable for featuring strong Eastern Bloc teams amid a U.S.-led boycott.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1980 Summer Olympics basketball tournament canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5980838 — 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)
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Target entity: 1980 Summer Olympics basketball tournament Context triple: [Oscar Schmidt, participatedIn, 1980 Summer Olympics basketball tournament]
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1988 Summer Olympics women’s basketball tournament
The 1988 Summer Olympics women’s basketball tournament was the Olympic basketball competition for women held in Seoul, featuring top national teams from around the world competing for gold, silver, and bronze medals.
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B.
basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics was the men's international basketball tournament held in Rome, featuring national teams from around the world and resulting in a gold medal for the United States.
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C.
2000 Summer Olympics men's basketball
The 2000 Summer Olympics men's basketball tournament was the Olympic basketball competition held in Sydney, Australia, featuring national teams from around the world competing for the gold medal.
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D.
2008 Summer Olympics basketball tournament
The 2008 Summer Olympics basketball tournament was the Olympic basketball competition held in Beijing, featuring top national teams from around the world competing for gold in both men's and women's events.
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E.
basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics was the tournament best known for featuring the USA "Dream Team," the first Olympic basketball squad composed of active NBA superstars.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: 1980 Summer Olympics basketball tournament Target entity description: The 1980 Summer Olympics basketball tournament was the men's and women's international basketball competition held in Moscow as part of the 1980 Olympic Games, notable for featuring strong Eastern Bloc teams amid a U.S.-led boycott.
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A.
1988 Summer Olympics women’s basketball tournament
The 1988 Summer Olympics women’s basketball tournament was the Olympic basketball competition for women held in Seoul, featuring top national teams from around the world competing for gold, silver, and bronze medals.
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B.
basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics was the men's international basketball tournament held in Rome, featuring national teams from around the world and resulting in a gold medal for the United States.
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C.
2000 Summer Olympics men's basketball
The 2000 Summer Olympics men's basketball tournament was the Olympic basketball competition held in Sydney, Australia, featuring national teams from around the world competing for the gold medal.
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D.
2008 Summer Olympics basketball tournament
The 2008 Summer Olympics basketball tournament was the Olympic basketball competition held in Beijing, featuring top national teams from around the world competing for gold in both men's and women's events.
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E.
basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics was the tournament best known for featuring the USA "Dream Team," the first Olympic basketball squad composed of active NBA superstars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Olympic basketball tournament ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Eastern Bloc national teams ⓘ |
| boycottBy |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| boycottContext | protest against Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ⓘ |
| boycottLedBy | United States government ⓘ |
| boycottSupportedBy | several Western countries ⓘ |
| competitionFormat | national teams tournament ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | international ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| editionNumber |
3rd Olympic women's basketball tournament
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9th Olympic men's basketball tournament ⓘ |
| eventType | quadrennial tournament ⓘ |
| frequency | every four years ⓘ |
| genderCategories |
men's tournament
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women's tournament ⓘ |
| governingBody | FIBA ⓘ |
| hostCity | Moscow ⓘ |
| hostCountry | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| hostedBy |
Organizing Committee of the 1980 Summer Olympics
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linked to:
1980 Summer Olympics organizing committee
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| includesEvent |
men's international basketball competition
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women's international basketball competition ⓘ |
| location | Moscow ⓘ |
| multiSportEventComponent | basketball competition ⓘ |
| notableFor |
U.S.-led boycott
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strong Eastern Bloc teams ⓘ |
| partOf | 1980 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Olympic basketball tournaments
ⓘ
linked to:
Olympic Games basketball tournament
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| politicalContext | Cold War ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1980 ⓘ |
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: 1980 Summer Olympics basketball tournament Description of subject: The 1980 Summer Olympics basketball tournament was the men's and women's international basketball competition held in Moscow as part of the 1980 Olympic Games, notable for featuring strong Eastern Bloc teams amid a U.S.-led boycott.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Olympic Stadium (Olimpiyskiy, historical)
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hostedEvent
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1980 Summer Olympics basketball tournament
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