1956 Winter Olympics
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The 1956 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, marking the first Winter Games to be televised internationally.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1956 Winter Olympics canonical | 18 |
| 1956 Winter Olympics alpine skiing events | 1 |
| 1956 Winter Olympics giant slalom | 1 |
| 1956 Winter Olympics opening ceremony | 1 |
| 1956 Winter Olympics women's downhill | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T774275 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1956 Winter Olympics Context triple: [1960 Winter Olympics, precededBy, 1956 Winter Olympics]
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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.
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1932 Winter Olympics
The 1932 Winter Olympics were the third edition of the Winter Games, held in Lake Placid, New York, and marked by the participation of 17 nations during the early years of the modern Olympic winter sports tradition.
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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.
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1988 Winter Olympics
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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1924 Winter Olympics
The 1924 Winter Olympics, held in Chamonix, France, were the inaugural Winter Games of the modern Olympic movement, featuring sports such as ice hockey, figure skating, and Nordic skiing events.
- 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: 1956 Winter Olympics Target entity description: The 1956 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, marking the first Winter Games to be televised internationally.
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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.
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B.
1932 Winter Olympics
The 1932 Winter Olympics were the third edition of the Winter Games, held in Lake Placid, New York, and marked by the participation of 17 nations during the early years of the modern Olympic winter sports tradition.
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C.
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.
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1988 Winter Olympics
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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E.
1924 Winter Olympics
The 1924 Winter Olympics, held in Chamonix, France, were the inaugural Winter Games of the modern Olympic movement, featuring sports such as ice hockey, figure skating, and Nordic skiing events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
How these facts were elicited
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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: 1956 Winter Olympics Description of subject: The 1956 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, marking the first Winter Games to be televised internationally.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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