1988 Winter Olympics
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The 1988 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter games held in Calgary, Canada, noted for iconic moments like the Jamaican bobsleigh team and British ski jumper Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T662296 — 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: 1988 Winter Olympics Context triple: [1992 Winter Olympics, precededBy, 1988 Winter Olympics]
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1992 Winter Olympics
The 1992 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter event held in Albertville, France, featuring competitions in sports such as skiing, skating, and ice hockey.
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1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter games held in Lillehammer, Norway, featuring events such as ice hockey, skiing, and figure skating.
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1998 Winter Olympics
The 1998 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter games held in Nagano, Japan, featuring events such as ice hockey, skiing, and figure skating.
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1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in Seoul that marked South Korea’s emergence on the global stage and featured the last Games in which both the Soviet Union and East Germany competed.
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1960 Winter Olympics
The 1960 Winter Olympics were the VIII Olympic Winter Games, held in Squaw Valley, California, and notable for being the first Winter Games hosted by the United States since 1932 and for introducing technological innovations like computerized timing.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: 1988 Winter Olympics Target entity description: The 1988 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter games held in Calgary, Canada, noted for iconic moments like the Jamaican bobsleigh team and British ski jumper Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards.
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1992 Winter Olympics
The 1992 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter event held in Albertville, France, featuring competitions in sports such as skiing, skating, and ice hockey.
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B.
1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter games held in Lillehammer, Norway, featuring events such as ice hockey, skiing, and figure skating.
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1998 Winter Olympics
The 1998 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter games held in Nagano, Japan, featuring events such as ice hockey, skiing, and figure skating.
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1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in Seoul that marked South Korea’s emergence on the global stage and featured the last Games in which both the Soviet Union and East Germany competed.
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1960 Winter Olympics
The 1960 Winter Olympics were the VIII Olympic Winter Games, held in Squaw Valley, California, and notable for being the first Winter Games hosted by the United States since 1932 and for introducing technological innovations like computerized timing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
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: 1988 Winter Olympics Description of subject: The 1988 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter games held in Calgary, Canada, noted for iconic moments like the Jamaican bobsleigh team and British ski jumper Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards.
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Calgary 1988
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1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary
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1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary
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Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics
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1988 Winter Olympics figure skating
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Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics
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1988 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
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1988 Winter Olympics closing ceremony
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1988 Winter Olympics ice hockey tournament
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Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics
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1988 Winter Olympics men's ice hockey
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1988 Winter Olympics opening ceremony