Goodwill Games

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The Goodwill Games were an international multi-sport competition created as an alternative to the Olympics to ease Cold War tensions and promote friendly athletic rivalry between nations.

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Label Occurrences
Goodwill Games canonical 3

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf international sporting competition
multi-sport event
basedOn Olympic Games
broadcastOn CNN
TBS
cancellationDecisionBy Time Warner
cancellationReason high costs
low television ratings
competitionLevel elite international
competitionType summer multi-sport event
continentScope global
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Ted Turner
endTime 2001
finalEdition 2001 Goodwill Games
firstEdition 1986 Goodwill Games
hasMotto spirit of goodwill and international friendship
inception 1986
laterOwnedBy Time Warner
notableParticipants Australia
Canada
China
Germany
Russia
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
numberOfEditions 5
organizer Turner Broadcasting System
ownedBy Turner Broadcasting System
purpose ease Cold War tensions
promote friendly athletic rivalry between nations
reasonForCreation response to Olympic boycotts of 1980 and 1984
startTime 1986
status defunct
typicalSportsIncluded athletics
basketball
boxing
cycling
fencing
figure skating
gymnastics
rowing
swimming
volleyball
wrestling

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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.
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Subject: Goodwill Games
Description of subject: The Goodwill Games were an international multi-sport competition created as an alternative to the Olympics to ease Cold War tensions and promote friendly athletic rivalry between nations.

Referenced by (3)

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Ted Turner founded Goodwill Games
Ted Turner notableWork Goodwill Games
Robert Edward Turner III founded Goodwill Games