The Boat Race
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The Boat Race is an annual rowing competition on the River Thames between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, and one of the oldest and most famous amateur sporting events in the world.
All labels observed (13)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T259059 — 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: The Boat Race Context triple: [University of Oxford, hasSportingEvent, The Boat Race]
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Queen’s Baton Relay
The Queen’s Baton Relay is a ceremonial relay event that carries a message from the Head of the Commonwealth to the host nation, symbolically launching and uniting countries ahead of each Commonwealth Games.
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Harvard Crimson men’s rowing
Harvard Crimson men’s rowing is the varsity rowing program of Harvard University, renowned for its long-standing success and historic rivalries in collegiate rowing.
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Harvard Crimson women’s rowing
Harvard Crimson women’s rowing is the varsity women’s rowing program of Harvard University, competing in collegiate regattas as part of the university’s storied athletic tradition.
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Sandown Park Racecourse
Sandown Park Racecourse is a prominent British horse racing venue known for hosting both flat and National Hunt races, located in Esher, Surrey.
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British Empire Games
The British Empire Games were the original multi-sport event for athletes from the British Empire and Commonwealth, serving as the precursor to what is now known as the Commonwealth Games.
- 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: The Boat Race Target entity description: The Boat Race is an annual rowing competition on the River Thames between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, and one of the oldest and most famous amateur sporting events in the world.
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A.
Queen’s Baton Relay
The Queen’s Baton Relay is a ceremonial relay event that carries a message from the Head of the Commonwealth to the host nation, symbolically launching and uniting countries ahead of each Commonwealth Games.
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B.
Harvard Crimson men’s rowing
Harvard Crimson men’s rowing is the varsity rowing program of Harvard University, renowned for its long-standing success and historic rivalries in collegiate rowing.
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C.
Harvard Crimson women’s rowing
Harvard Crimson women’s rowing is the varsity women’s rowing program of Harvard University, competing in collegiate regattas as part of the university’s storied athletic tradition.
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D.
Sandown Park Racecourse
Sandown Park Racecourse is a prominent British horse racing venue known for hosting both flat and National Hunt races, located in Esher, Surrey.
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E.
British Empire Games
The British Empire Games were the original multi-sport event for athletes from the British Empire and Commonwealth, serving as the precursor to what is now known as the Commonwealth Games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: The Boat Race Description of subject: The Boat Race is an annual rowing competition on the River Thames between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, and one of the oldest and most famous amateur sporting events in the world.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
this entity surface form:
The University Boat Race
this entity surface form:
Boat Race
this entity surface form:
Boat Race
this entity surface form:
Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race
this entity surface form:
Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race start
this entity surface form:
Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race course
this entity surface form:
Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race
this entity surface form:
veterans’ Boat Race
this entity surface form:
Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race
this entity surface form:
Oxford–Cambridge Varsity Match
this entity surface form:
Oxford–Cambridge rivalry
this entity surface form:
Oxford–Cambridge Varsity matches
this entity surface form:
Boat Race
this entity surface form:
Oxbridge Boat Race series
this entity surface form:
Oxford–Cambridge University Boat Race
this entity surface form:
Oxford–Cambridge University Boat Race
this entity surface form:
Oxford–Cambridge University Boat Race
subject surface form:
Oxford University Boat Club
subject surface form:
Cambridge University Boat Club
subject surface form:
Oxford University Boat Club
subject surface form:
Cambridge University Boat Club