World Expo 88
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World Expo 88 was a major international exposition held in 1988 that showcased global culture, technology, and innovation and significantly transformed its host city's riverfront and international profile.
All labels observed (14)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T709433 — 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: World Expo 88 Context triple: [Brisbane, hostedEvent, World Expo 88]
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Expo 85
Expo 85 was a world's fair held in Tsukuba, Japan, showcasing advances in science and technology during the mid-1980s.
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1982 World's Fair
The 1982 World's Fair was a specialized international exposition held in Knoxville that focused on energy themes and left the city with landmarks like the Sunsphere.
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Expo ’70
Expo ’70 was the world’s fair held in Osaka, Japan, in 1970, renowned for its futuristic architecture, technological exhibits, and the iconic Tower of the Sun.
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D.
Expo '75
Expo '75 was a world's fair held in Okinawa, Japan, that showcased marine science and technology while promoting the island's post-reversion development and international exchange.
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E.
Expo 2020
Expo 2020 was a World Expo held in Dubai that showcased global innovation, culture, and sustainability through international pavilions and events.
- 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: World Expo 88 Target entity description: World Expo 88 was a major international exposition held in 1988 that showcased global culture, technology, and innovation and significantly transformed its host city's riverfront and international profile.
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A.
Expo 85
Expo 85 was a world's fair held in Tsukuba, Japan, showcasing advances in science and technology during the mid-1980s.
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B.
1982 World's Fair
The 1982 World's Fair was a specialized international exposition held in Knoxville that focused on energy themes and left the city with landmarks like the Sunsphere.
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C.
Expo ’70
Expo ’70 was the world’s fair held in Osaka, Japan, in 1970, renowned for its futuristic architecture, technological exhibits, and the iconic Tower of the Sun.
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D.
Expo '75
Expo '75 was a world's fair held in Okinawa, Japan, that showcased marine science and technology while promoting the island's post-reversion development and international exchange.
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E.
Expo 2020
Expo 2020 was a World Expo held in Dubai that showcased global innovation, culture, and sustainability through international pavilions and events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
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: World Expo 88 Description of subject: World Expo 88 was a major international exposition held in 1988 that showcased global culture, technology, and innovation and significantly transformed its host city's riverfront and international profile.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Expo 88 (Brisbane)
this entity surface form:
Expo 88
this entity surface form:
Brisbane World Expo 88
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World Expo 88 Authority
this entity surface form:
Expo Oz
this entity surface form:
Expo 88
this entity surface form:
World Expo 88 in Brisbane
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World Expo 88 organisers
this entity surface form:
Expo 88
this entity surface form:
World Expo 1988 in Brisbane
this entity surface form:
Expo 88
subject surface form:
Japan Pavilion (Expo 88)
this entity surface form:
Expo 88
subject surface form:
Japan Pavilion (Expo 88)
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World Expo 88 organizing committee
subject surface form:
United States Pavilion (World Expo 88)
this entity surface form:
1988 World Exposition in Brisbane
subject surface form:
China Pavilion (World Expo 88)
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World Expo 88 China delegation
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World Expo 88 site
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World Expo 88 theme "Leisure in the Age of Technology"