basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics was the men's international basketball tournament held in Melbourne, Australia, featuring national teams competing for the Olympic title under FIBA rules.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9263652 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics Context triple: [basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics, previousEvent, basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics]
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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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basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics was the men's international basketball tournament held in Tokyo, notable for featuring future stars like Bill Bradley and contributing to the sport’s growing global prominence.
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1980 Summer Olympics basketball tournament
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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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.
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1996 Summer Olympics men's basketball
The 1996 Summer Olympics men's basketball tournament was the Olympic basketball competition held in Atlanta, featuring national teams from around the world and culminating in the United States winning the gold medal.
- 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: basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics Target entity description: Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics was the men's international basketball tournament held in Melbourne, Australia, featuring national teams competing for the Olympic title under FIBA rules.
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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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B.
basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics was the men's international basketball tournament held in Tokyo, notable for featuring future stars like Bill Bradley and contributing to the sport’s growing global prominence.
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C.
1980 Summer Olympics basketball tournament
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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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.
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E.
1996 Summer Olympics men's basketball
The 1996 Summer Olympics men's basketball tournament was the Olympic basketball competition held in Atlanta, featuring national teams from around the world and culminating in the United States winning the gold medal.
- F. None of above. chosen
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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: basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics Description of subject: Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics was the men's international basketball tournament held in Melbourne, Australia, featuring national teams competing for the Olympic title under FIBA rules.
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