1996 Woodward Stakes
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Grade I stakes race
Thoroughbred horse race
Thoroughbred racehorse
horse race
horse trainer
jockey
racehorse owner
The 1996 Woodward Stakes was a prestigious Grade I thoroughbred horse race at Belmont Park, remembered as one of the key victories in the illustrious career of champion racehorse Cigar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1996 Woodward Stakes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4412766 — 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: 1996 Woodward Stakes Context triple: [Cigar, notableRaceWin, 1996 Woodward Stakes]
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A.
1995 Woodward Stakes
The 1995 Woodward Stakes was a prestigious Grade I thoroughbred horse race at Belmont Park, remembered as one of the key victories in Cigar’s dominant Horse of the Year campaign.
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B.
Sword Dancer Stakes
The Sword Dancer Stakes is a prestigious Grade I American thoroughbred horse race run on turf at Saratoga Race Course, typically attracting top long-distance turf specialists.
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C.
Eclipse Stakes
Eclipse Stakes is a prestigious Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain for three-year-olds and up, run annually over 1¼ miles at Sandown Park.
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D.
Whitney Stakes
Whitney Stakes is a prestigious Grade I American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Saratoga Race Course in New York.
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E.
Travers Stakes
The Travers Stakes is one of the oldest and most prestigious Grade I thoroughbred horse races in the United States, often called the "Mid-Summer Derby" for three-year-olds.
- 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: 1996 Woodward Stakes Target entity description: The 1996 Woodward Stakes was a prestigious Grade I thoroughbred horse race at Belmont Park, remembered as one of the key victories in the illustrious career of champion racehorse Cigar.
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A.
1995 Woodward Stakes
The 1995 Woodward Stakes was a prestigious Grade I thoroughbred horse race at Belmont Park, remembered as one of the key victories in Cigar’s dominant Horse of the Year campaign.
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B.
Sword Dancer Stakes
The Sword Dancer Stakes is a prestigious Grade I American thoroughbred horse race run on turf at Saratoga Race Course, typically attracting top long-distance turf specialists.
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C.
Eclipse Stakes
Eclipse Stakes is a prestigious Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain for three-year-olds and up, run annually over 1¼ miles at Sandown Park.
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D.
Whitney Stakes
Whitney Stakes is a prestigious Grade I American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Saratoga Race Course in New York.
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E.
Travers Stakes
The Travers Stakes is one of the oldest and most prestigious Grade I thoroughbred horse races in the United States, often called the "Mid-Summer Derby" for three-year-olds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Grade I stakes race
ⓘ
Thoroughbred horse race ⓘ Thoroughbred racehorse ⓘ horse race ⓘ horse trainer ⓘ jockey ⓘ racehorse owner ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| date | 1996 ⓘ |
| distance |
1⅛ miles
ⓘ
9 furlongs ⓘ |
| followedBy | 1997 Woodward Stakes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | 1995 Woodward Stakes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grade | Grade I ⓘ |
| heldAt | Belmont Park main track NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Elmont, New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Belmont Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | William Woodward Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the key victories in Cigar's career ⓘ |
| ownedWinnerOf | 1996 Woodward Stakes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Woodward Stakes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| qualification | three-year-olds and up ⓘ |
| raceType | flat racing ⓘ |
| rodeWinnerOf | 1996 Woodward Stakes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| surface | dirt ⓘ |
| trackDirection | left-handed ⓘ |
| trainedWinnerOf | 1996 Woodward Stakes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winner | Cigar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winningJockey | Jerry D. Bailey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winningOwner | Allen E. Paulson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| winningTrainer | William I. Mott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wonBy | Cigar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wonRace | 1996 Woodward Stakes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: 1996 Woodward Stakes Description of subject: The 1996 Woodward Stakes was a prestigious Grade I thoroughbred horse race at Belmont Park, remembered as one of the key victories in the illustrious career of champion racehorse Cigar.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.