decathlon
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The decathlon is a grueling two-day track and field combined event in which athletes compete across ten disciplines to determine the most versatile all-around performer.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| decathlon canonical | 5 |
| decathlon at the 1948 Summer Olympics | 1 |
| decathlon at the 1952 Summer Olympics | 1 |
| decathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics | 1 |
| men's decathlon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2391464 — 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: decathlon Context triple: [Daley Thompson, retiredFromSport, decathlon]
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A.
Atleti
Atleti is the commonly used nickname for Atlético de Madrid, a major Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
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B.
theathletic.com
theathletic.com is a subscription-based sports journalism website known for in-depth coverage, analysis, and reporting across major professional and collegiate sports.
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C.
Deaflympics
The Deaflympics are an international multi-sport event sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee, featuring elite deaf and hard-of-hearing athletes competing under modified communication rules such as visual instead of auditory signals.
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D.
Marathón
Marathón is a professional football club from Honduras, known as one of the country's most prominent and historically successful teams.
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E.
Sportsday
Sportsday is a BBC television sports news programme providing regular updates, highlights, and analysis of major sporting events.
- 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: decathlon Target entity description: The decathlon is a grueling two-day track and field combined event in which athletes compete across ten disciplines to determine the most versatile all-around performer.
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A.
Atleti
Atleti is the commonly used nickname for Atlético de Madrid, a major Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
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B.
theathletic.com
theathletic.com is a subscription-based sports journalism website known for in-depth coverage, analysis, and reporting across major professional and collegiate sports.
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C.
Deaflympics
The Deaflympics are an international multi-sport event sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee, featuring elite deaf and hard-of-hearing athletes competing under modified communication rules such as visual instead of auditory signals.
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D.
Marathón
Marathón is a professional football club from Honduras, known as one of the country's most prominent and historically successful teams.
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E.
Sportsday
Sportsday is a BBC television sports news programme providing regular updates, highlights, and analysis of major sporting events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
athletics event
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combined track and field event ⓘ multi-sport event ⓘ |
| aim | determine the most versatile all-around performer in track and field ⓘ |
| athleteTitle | decathlete ⓘ |
| competitionLevel |
Olympic Games
ⓘ
World Championships in Athletics series ⓘ
surface form:
World Athletics Championships
continental championships ⓘ national championships ⓘ |
| dayOneEvents |
100 metres
ⓘ
400 metres ⓘ high jump ⓘ long jump ⓘ shot put ⓘ |
| dayTwoEvents |
110 metres hurdles
ⓘ
1500 metres ⓘ discus throw ⓘ javelin throw ⓘ pole vault ⓘ |
| eventType |
hurdles
ⓘ
jumps ⓘ middle-distance running ⓘ sprints ⓘ throws ⓘ |
| firstOlympicInclusion | 1912 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| genderCategory | primarily a men’s event at major championships ⓘ |
| governingBody | World Athletics ⓘ |
| isPartOf | track and field ⓘ |
| numberOfEvents | 10 ⓘ |
| olympicStatus | Olympic event ⓘ |
| olympicTradition | winner often informally called the world’s greatest athlete ⓘ |
| reputation | one of the most demanding events in athletics ⓘ |
| requires |
endurance
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speed ⓘ strength ⓘ technical skill ⓘ versatility ⓘ |
| scoringCharacteristic |
no single event is sufficient to win without balance
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performance in each event converted to points ⓘ |
| scoringMethod | points-based scoring tables ⓘ |
| sport | athletics ⓘ |
| typicalDuration | two days ⓘ |
| winnerDetermination | highest total points across all events ⓘ |
| womenEquivalent | heptathlon ⓘ |
| worldRecordCategory | men’s decathlon world record ⓘ |
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: decathlon Description of subject: The decathlon is a grueling two-day track and field combined event in which athletes compete across ten disciplines to determine the most versatile all-around performer.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
men's decathlon
this entity surface form:
decathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics
subject surface form:
Bob Mathias
this entity surface form:
decathlon at the 1948 Summer Olympics
subject surface form:
Bob Mathias
this entity surface form:
decathlon at the 1952 Summer Olympics