2002 FIFA World Cup
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The 2002 FIFA World Cup was the 17th edition of the men's international football championship, notable for being the first World Cup held in Asia and jointly hosted by South Korea and Japan.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 2002 FIFA World Cup canonical | 97 |
| FIFA World Cup 2002 | 4 |
| 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan | 2 |
| 2002 FIFA World Cup ceremonies | 1 |
| 2002 FIFA World Cup group stage matches | 1 |
| FIFA World Cup 2002 broadcasts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T196625 — 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: 2002 FIFA World Cup Context triple: [South Korea, hostedEvent, 2002 FIFA World Cup]
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2006 FIFA World Cup
The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th edition of the men's international football championship, held across multiple cities in Germany and won by Italy after a final against France.
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B.
2010 FIFA World Cup
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th edition of the men's international football championship, notable for being the first World Cup held on the African continent and for Spain winning their first title.
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C.
1990 FIFA World Cup
The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th edition of the men's international football championship, held in Italy and won by West Germany.
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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.
1974 FIFA World Cup
The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the 10th edition of the men's football world championship, held in West Germany and won by the host nation.
- 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: 2002 FIFA World Cup Target entity description: The 2002 FIFA World Cup was the 17th edition of the men's international football championship, notable for being the first World Cup held in Asia and jointly hosted by South Korea and Japan.
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A.
2006 FIFA World Cup
The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th edition of the men's international football championship, held across multiple cities in Germany and won by Italy after a final against France.
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B.
2010 FIFA World Cup
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th edition of the men's international football championship, notable for being the first World Cup held on the African continent and for Spain winning their first title.
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C.
1990 FIFA World Cup
The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th edition of the men's international football championship, held in Italy and won by West Germany.
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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.
1974 FIFA World Cup
The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the 10th edition of the men's football world championship, held in West Germany and won by the host nation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: 2002 FIFA World Cup Description of subject: The 2002 FIFA World Cup was the 17th edition of the men's international football championship, notable for being the first World Cup held in Asia and jointly hosted by South Korea and Japan.
Referenced by (106)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
FIFA World Cup 2002
subject surface form:
Lucas Radebe
subject surface form:
Xavi Hernández
subject surface form:
Boom
subject surface form:
Boom
subject surface form:
Boom
this entity surface form:
2002 FIFA World Cup ceremonies
this entity surface form:
FIFA World Cup 2002
subject surface form:
Miroslav Klose
subject surface form:
Vincent Enyeama
this entity surface form:
FIFA World Cup 2002
subject surface form:
Patrick Vieira
subject surface form:
Nwankwo Kanu
this entity surface form:
FIFA World Cup 2002