1988 Summer Olympics
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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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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T196624 — 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 Summer Olympics Context triple: [South Korea, hostedEvent, 1988 Summer Olympics]
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1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics, held in Barcelona, Spain, were a landmark Games noted for the debut of the U.S. "Dream Team" in men's basketball and the end of the Soviet Union's participation as a unified team.
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1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event marked by a Soviet-led boycott, significant commercial success, and standout athletic performances, including those of Carl Lewis.
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1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in Atlanta, Georgia, marking the centennial of the modern Olympic Games.
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1976 Summer Olympics
The 1976 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in Montreal, Canada, notable for a major African boycott and Nadia Comăneci’s historic perfect 10 in gymnastics.
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1956 Summer Olympics
The 1956 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Australia, notable for being the first Olympics staged in the Southern Hemisphere and featuring stars such as basketball player Bill Russell.
- 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1988 Summer Olympics Target entity description: 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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1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics, held in Barcelona, Spain, were a landmark Games noted for the debut of the U.S. "Dream Team" in men's basketball and the end of the Soviet Union's participation as a unified team.
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B.
1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event marked by a Soviet-led boycott, significant commercial success, and standout athletic performances, including those of Carl Lewis.
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C.
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in Atlanta, Georgia, marking the centennial of the modern Olympic Games.
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1976 Summer Olympics
The 1976 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in Montreal, Canada, notable for a major African boycott and Nadia Comăneci’s historic perfect 10 in gymnastics.
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1956 Summer Olympics
The 1956 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Australia, notable for being the first Olympics staged in the Southern Hemisphere and featuring stars such as basketball player Bill Russell.
- 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: 1988 Summer Olympics Description of subject: 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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Florence “Flo-Jo” Griffith-Joyner
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