2018 FIFA World Cup
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The 2018 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament held in Russia, featuring 32 national teams competing for the sport’s most prestigious trophy.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 2018 FIFA World Cup canonical | 69 |
| FIFA World Cup 2018 | 4 |
| 2018 FIFA World Cup final | 1 |
| 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia | 1 |
| 2018 FIFA World Cup semi-final | 1 |
| 20th FIFA World Cup | 1 |
| 21st FIFA World Cup | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1502968 — 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: 2018 FIFA World Cup Context triple: [Tim Cahill, participatedIn, 2018 FIFA World Cup]
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2022 FIFA World Cup
The 2022 FIFA World Cup was the first World Cup held in the Middle East and the first played in November–December, featuring 32 national teams competing for football’s most prestigious trophy.
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B.
2014 FIFA World Cup
The 2014 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament hosted by Brazil, remembered for Germany’s 7–1 semifinal victory over Brazil and their eventual championship win.
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C.
FIFA Confederations Cup 2017
The FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 was the final edition of FIFA’s quadrennial international tournament for continental champions, held in Russia as a prelude to the 2018 World Cup.
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D.
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup is the premier international football (soccer) tournament contested by national teams from around the world every four years.
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E.
2026 FIFA World Cup
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is an upcoming expanded 48-team men's international football tournament that will be jointly hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
- 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: 2018 FIFA World Cup Target entity description: The 2018 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament held in Russia, featuring 32 national teams competing for the sport’s most prestigious trophy.
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A.
2022 FIFA World Cup
The 2022 FIFA World Cup was the first World Cup held in the Middle East and the first played in November–December, featuring 32 national teams competing for football’s most prestigious trophy.
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B.
2014 FIFA World Cup
The 2014 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament hosted by Brazil, remembered for Germany’s 7–1 semifinal victory over Brazil and their eventual championship win.
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C.
FIFA Confederations Cup 2017
The FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 was the final edition of FIFA’s quadrennial international tournament for continental champions, held in Russia as a prelude to the 2018 World Cup.
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D.
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup is the premier international football (soccer) tournament contested by national teams from around the world every four years.
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E.
2026 FIFA World Cup
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is an upcoming expanded 48-team men's international football tournament that will be jointly hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
- 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: 2018 FIFA World Cup Description of subject: The 2018 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament held in Russia, featuring 32 national teams competing for the sport’s most prestigious trophy.
Referenced by (78)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
21st FIFA World Cup
this entity surface form:
20th FIFA World Cup
subject surface form:
Neymar Jr.
this entity surface form:
FIFA World Cup 2018
this entity surface form:
FIFA World Cup 2018
subject surface form:
Jordan Henderson
this entity surface form:
FIFA World Cup 2018
subject surface form:
France vs Croatia (2018 FIFA World Cup Final)
subject surface form:
France vs Croatia (2018 FIFA World Cup Final)
subject surface form:
France vs Croatia (2018 FIFA World Cup Final)
this entity surface form:
2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia
this entity surface form:
2018 FIFA World Cup final