Olympic Games
E19365
international sporting event
mega-event
multi-sport event
recurring sporting event
sporting festival
The Olympic Games were a major ancient Greek athletic and religious festival held in honor of Zeus, featuring competitions among city-states that inspired the modern international sporting event.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Olympic Games canonical | 329 |
| Summer Olympics | 20 |
| ancient Olympic Games | 16 |
| Ancient Olympic Games | 4 |
| Olympics | 2 |
| Summer Games | 2 |
| Olympic Games (conceptually) | 1 |
| Olympic Games golf tournaments | 1 |
| Olympic Games in Switzerland | 1 |
| Olympic Games in antiquity | 1 |
| Olympic Summer Games | 1 |
| summer Olympics | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156977 — 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: Olympic Games Context triple: [Ancient Greek religion, hasFestival, Olympic Games]
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A.
Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics is a major international multi-sport event held every four years, featuring winter sports such as skiing, ice hockey, and figure skating contested by athletes from around the world.
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B.
modern Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event, revived in 1896, in which athletes from around the world compete in a wide range of summer and winter sports every four years.
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C.
Summer Olympics 1896
The Summer Olympics 1896, held in Athens, Greece, were the first modern Olympic Games and marked the revival of the ancient Olympic tradition under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee.
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D.
Summer Olympics 1924
The 1924 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, notable for expanding the modern Olympic movement and inspiring the story depicted in the film "Chariots of Fire."
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E.
Summer Olympics 1948
The Summer Olympics 1948 were the first Olympic Games held after World War II, often called the "Austerity Games" due to postwar rationing and economic hardship.
- 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: Olympic Games Target entity description: The Olympic Games were a major ancient Greek athletic and religious festival held in honor of Zeus, featuring competitions among city-states that inspired the modern international sporting event.
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A.
Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics is a major international multi-sport event held every four years, featuring winter sports such as skiing, ice hockey, and figure skating contested by athletes from around the world.
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B.
modern Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event, revived in 1896, in which athletes from around the world compete in a wide range of summer and winter sports every four years.
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C.
Summer Olympics 1896
The Summer Olympics 1896, held in Athens, Greece, were the first modern Olympic Games and marked the revival of the ancient Olympic tradition under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee.
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D.
Summer Olympics 1924
The 1924 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, notable for expanding the modern Olympic movement and inspiring the story depicted in the film "Chariots of Fire."
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E.
Summer Olympics 1948
The Summer Olympics 1948 were the first Olympic Games held after World War II, often called the "Austerity Games" due to postwar rationing and economic hardship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (77)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international sporting event
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mega-event ⓘ multi-sport event ⓘ recurring sporting event ⓘ sporting festival ⓘ |
| award |
bronze medal
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gold medal ⓘ silver medal ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Greece ⓘ |
| firstEditionCountry | Greece ⓘ |
| firstEditionLocation | Athens ⓘ |
| firstEditionType |
modern Olympic Games
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surface form:
Summer Olympic Games
|
| foundedBy | Pierre de Coubertin ⓘ |
| governingBodyHeadquarters | Lausanne ⓘ |
| governingBodyHeadquartersCountry | Switzerland ⓘ |
| hasAnthem | Olympic Hymn ⓘ |
| hasCeremony |
closing ceremony
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medal ceremony ⓘ opening ceremony ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Olympic Village
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bid process ⓘ broadcast rights ⓘ host city selection process ⓘ sponsorship program ⓘ torch relay ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| hasMotto |
Citius, Altius, Fortius
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Citius, Altius, Fortius ⓘ
surface form:
Citius, Altius, Fortius – Communiter
|
| hasObjective |
develop youth through sport
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encourage fair play ⓘ promote international understanding through sport ⓘ promote peace ⓘ |
| hasOfficialOath |
athletes' oath
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coaches' oath ⓘ judges' oath ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Paralympic Games
ⓘ
modern Olympic Games ⓘ
surface form:
Summer Olympic Games
Winter Olympics ⓘ
surface form:
Winter Olympic Games
Youth Olympic Games ⓘ |
| inception | 1896 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Olympic Games
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ancient Olympic Games
|
| namedAfter | Olympia ⓘ |
| organizedBy | International Olympic Committee ⓘ |
| recurrenceInterval | 4 years ⓘ |
| relatedEvent |
Olympic Games
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Olympic Games
Paralympic Games ⓘ Special Olympics ⓘ
surface form:
Special Olympics World Games
World Games ⓘ |
| shortName |
Olympic Games
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Olympics
|
| sportDiscipline |
archery
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athletics ⓘ badminton ⓘ basketball ⓘ boxing ⓘ cycling ⓘ equestrian ⓘ fencing ⓘ field hockey ⓘ football ⓘ golf ⓘ gymnastics ⓘ handball ⓘ judo ⓘ rowing ⓘ rugby sevens ⓘ sailing ⓘ swimming ⓘ table tennis ⓘ taekwondo ⓘ tennis ⓘ volleyball ⓘ weightlifting ⓘ wrestling ⓘ |
| symbol |
Olympic rings
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surface form:
Olympic flag
Olympic flame ⓘ Olympic rings ⓘ |
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: Olympic Games Description of subject: The Olympic Games were a major ancient Greek athletic and religious festival held in honor of Zeus, featuring competitions among city-states that inspired the modern international sporting event.
Referenced by (379)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Summer Olympics
subject surface form:
The Flying Scotsman
subject surface form:
Richard Power (equestrian)
this entity surface form:
Olympic Games in Switzerland
subject surface form:
Luc Longley
this entity surface form:
Olympic Games in antiquity
subject surface form:
Terry Dischinger
this entity surface form:
Summer Olympics
this entity surface form:
Summer Olympics
subject surface form:
New Zealand women's national football team
this entity surface form:
Olympics
subject surface form:
Kenya National Olympic Committee
subject surface form:
Uganda Olympic Committee
subject surface form:
Sarah Hughes
Brisbane Organising Committee for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games
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hasScope
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Olympic Games
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