1998 FIFA World Cup
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The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th edition of the men's international football championship, held in France and won by the host nation for their first world title.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 1998 FIFA World Cup canonical | 93 |
| FIFA World Cup 1998 | 5 |
| 1998 FIFA World Cup Final | 3 |
| 1998 FIFA World Cup France | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T661544 — 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: 1998 FIFA World Cup Context triple: [Stade de France, hostedEvent, 1998 FIFA World Cup]
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1994 FIFA World Cup
The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th edition of the men's football world championship, hosted by the United States and won by Brazil after defeating Italy in a penalty shootout in the final.
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B.
2002 FIFA World Cup
The 2002 FIFA World Cup was the 17th edition of the men's international football championship, notable for being the first World Cup held in Asia and jointly hosted by South Korea and Japan.
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C.
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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1986 FIFA World Cup
The 1986 FIFA World Cup was a global football tournament held in Mexico, remembered for Diego Maradona’s iconic performances that led Argentina to the title.
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E.
2006 FIFA World Cup
The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th edition of the men's international football championship, held across multiple cities in Germany and won by Italy after a final against France.
- 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: 1998 FIFA World Cup Target entity description: The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th edition of the men's international football championship, held in France and won by the host nation for their first world title.
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A.
1994 FIFA World Cup
The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th edition of the men's football world championship, hosted by the United States and won by Brazil after defeating Italy in a penalty shootout in the final.
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B.
2002 FIFA World Cup
The 2002 FIFA World Cup was the 17th edition of the men's international football championship, notable for being the first World Cup held in Asia and jointly hosted by South Korea and Japan.
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C.
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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D.
1986 FIFA World Cup
The 1986 FIFA World Cup was a global football tournament held in Mexico, remembered for Diego Maradona’s iconic performances that led Argentina to the title.
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E.
2006 FIFA World Cup
The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th edition of the men's international football championship, held across multiple cities in Germany and won by Italy after a final against France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: 1998 FIFA World Cup Description of subject: The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th edition of the men's international football championship, held in France and won by the host nation for their first world title.
Referenced by (102)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
1998 FIFA World Cup Final
this entity surface form:
FIFA World Cup 1998
this entity surface form:
1998 FIFA World Cup Final
this entity surface form:
FIFA World Cup 1998
this entity surface form:
FIFA World Cup 1998
subject surface form:
Lucas Radebe