2008 Summer Olympics
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The 2008 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in China that showcased Beijing’s rapid modernization and featured memorable performances by athletes like Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T114423 — 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)
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Target entity: 2008 Summer Olympics Context triple: [Beijing, hosted, 2008 Summer Olympics]
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Summer Olympics 2012
The Summer Olympics 2012 was a major international multi-sport event held in London, featuring athletes from around the world competing in a wide range of disciplines.
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2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter games held in Turin, Italy, featuring competitions in sports such as skiing, ice hockey, and figure skating.
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2020 Summer Olympics
The 2020 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, uniquely marked by a one-year postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2028 Summer Olympics
The 2028 Summer Olympics is the upcoming edition of the Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Los Angeles, featuring international multi-sport competitions under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee.
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E.
XVII Olympic Winter Games
The XVII Olympic Winter Games were the 1994 Winter Olympics, an international multi-sport event held in Lillehammer, Norway.
- 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: 2008 Summer Olympics Target entity description: The 2008 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in China that showcased Beijing’s rapid modernization and featured memorable performances by athletes like Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt.
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A.
Summer Olympics 2012
The Summer Olympics 2012 was a major international multi-sport event held in London, featuring athletes from around the world competing in a wide range of disciplines.
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B.
2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics were an international multi-sport winter games held in Turin, Italy, featuring competitions in sports such as skiing, ice hockey, and figure skating.
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C.
2020 Summer Olympics
The 2020 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, uniquely marked by a one-year postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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D.
2028 Summer Olympics
The 2028 Summer Olympics is the upcoming edition of the Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Los Angeles, featuring international multi-sport competitions under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee.
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E.
XVII Olympic Winter Games
The XVII Olympic Winter Games were the 1994 Winter Olympics, an international multi-sport event held in Lillehammer, Norway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: 2008 Summer Olympics Description of subject: The 2008 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in China that showcased Beijing’s rapid modernization and featured memorable performances by athletes like Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt.
Referenced by (109)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
2008 Beijing Olympics
subject surface form:
Jason Kidd
subject surface form:
Tobin Heath
subject surface form:
James Blake
this entity surface form:
2008 Summer Olympics athletics competitions
subject surface form:
Spanish men's national basketball team
subject surface form:
Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics