Deaflympics
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The Deaflympics are an international multi-sport event sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee, featuring elite deaf and hard-of-hearing athletes competing under modified communication rules such as visual instead of auditory signals.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Deaflympics canonical | 2 |
| Summer Deaflympics | 2 |
| Winter Deaflympics | 2 |
| World Games for the Deaf | 2 |
| International Games for the Deaf | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1065760 — 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: Deaflympics Context triple: [Paralympic Games, relatedTo, Deaflympics]
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A.
Special Olympics
Special Olympics is an international sports organization that provides year-round training and athletic competitions for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
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B.
World Games
The World Games are an international multi-sport event featuring disciplines and sports that are not contested in the Olympic Games, held every four years under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee.
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C.
Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games are a major international multi-sport event featuring athletes with disabilities, held shortly after and in parallel with the Olympic Games.
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D.
Games of the XXX Olympiad
Games of the XXX Olympiad is the formal title of the 2012 Summer Olympics held in London, featuring international multi-sport competitions among athletes from around the world.
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E.
Games of the XXI Olympiad
Games of the XXI Olympiad is the formal title of the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada.
- 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: Deaflympics Target entity description: The Deaflympics are an international multi-sport event sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee, featuring elite deaf and hard-of-hearing athletes competing under modified communication rules such as visual instead of auditory signals.
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A.
Special Olympics
Special Olympics is an international sports organization that provides year-round training and athletic competitions for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
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B.
World Games
The World Games are an international multi-sport event featuring disciplines and sports that are not contested in the Olympic Games, held every four years under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee.
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C.
Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games are a major international multi-sport event featuring athletes with disabilities, held shortly after and in parallel with the Olympic Games.
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D.
Games of the XXX Olympiad
Games of the XXX Olympiad is the formal title of the 2012 Summer Olympics held in London, featuring international multi-sport competitions among athletes from around the world.
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E.
Games of the XXI Olympiad
Games of the XXI Olympiad is the formal title of the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international sporting event
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multi-sport event ⓘ parasport event ⓘ recurring sporting event ⓘ |
| adoptedCurrentName | 2001 ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
promote elite sport for deaf people
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promote social integration of deaf athletes ⓘ showcase the capabilities of deaf and hard-of-hearing athletes ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Deaflympics
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surface form:
International Games for the Deaf
Deaflympics ⓘ
surface form:
World Games for the Deaf
|
| alternatesWith |
Deaflympics
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Summer Deaflympics
Deaflympics self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Winter Deaflympics
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| category | deaf sports competitions ⓘ |
| communicationMode |
sign language
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visual signals ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | international elite ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
Olympic Games
ⓘ
Paralympic Games ⓘ |
| eligibilityCriterion | athletes with a hearing loss of at least 55 dB in the better ear ⓘ |
| firstHeld | 1924 ⓘ |
| firstHostCity | Paris ⓘ |
| firstHostCountry | France ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Eugène Rubens-Alcais ⓘ |
| frequency | every four years ⓘ |
| governingBody | International Committee of Sports for the Deaf ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
adapted rules for communication but standard sport rules otherwise
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athletes compete in silence at start of events ⓘ elite-level competition ⓘ no use of hearing aids during competition ⓘ |
| hasEditionType |
Deaflympics
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Summer Deaflympics
Deaflympics self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Winter Deaflympics
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| hasMotto | Equal through sports ⓘ |
| includes |
individual sports
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team sports ⓘ |
| involves |
deaf athletes
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hard-of-hearing athletes ⓘ |
| originalName | International Silent Games ⓘ |
| participantType | national deaf sports federations ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Deaf culture
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disability sport ⓘ |
| renamedIn | 1966 ⓘ |
| renamedTo |
Deaflympics
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
World Games for the Deaf
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| sanctionedBy | International Olympic Committee ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| sportsType |
summer sports
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winter sports ⓘ |
| uses | visual starting signals instead of auditory signals ⓘ |
| winterFrequency | every four years ⓘ |
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: Deaflympics Description of subject: The Deaflympics are an international multi-sport event sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee, featuring elite deaf and hard-of-hearing athletes competing under modified communication rules such as visual instead of auditory signals.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
World Games for the Deaf
this entity surface form:
International Games for the Deaf
this entity surface form:
Summer Deaflympics
this entity surface form:
Winter Deaflympics
this entity surface form:
World Games for the Deaf
this entity surface form:
Summer Deaflympics
this entity surface form:
Winter Deaflympics