1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics
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The 1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics was the men's middle-distance track event in which future sub-four-minute mile legend Roger Bannister competed on the international stage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6769089 — 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: 1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics Context triple: [Roger Bannister, olympicEvent, 1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics]
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5000 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics
The 5000 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics was the men's long-distance track event in Montreal where Finnish runner Lasse Virén completed his historic distance double.
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10,000 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics
The 10,000 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics was a long-distance track event held in London as part of the athletics program, featuring top runners of the era competing over 25 laps of the track.
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C.
5000 metres at the 2016 Summer Olympics
The 5000 metres at the 2016 Summer Olympics was the men's long-distance track event in Rio de Janeiro where Mo Farah completed his historic Olympic distance double.
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Nordic skiing events at the 1952 Winter Olympics
The Nordic skiing events at the 1952 Winter Olympics comprised the cross-country, ski jumping, and Nordic combined competitions held as part of the Oslo Winter Games.
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men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics
The men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics was a marquee sprint event in Berlin that featured some of the era’s fastest athletes, including Jesse Owens and Tinus Osendarp, and became historically significant amid the Games’ charged political atmosphere.
- 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: 1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics Target entity description: The 1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics was the men's middle-distance track event in which future sub-four-minute mile legend Roger Bannister competed on the international stage.
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A.
5000 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics
The 5000 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics was the men's long-distance track event in Montreal where Finnish runner Lasse Virén completed his historic distance double.
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B.
10,000 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics
The 10,000 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics was a long-distance track event held in London as part of the athletics program, featuring top runners of the era competing over 25 laps of the track.
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C.
5000 metres at the 2016 Summer Olympics
The 5000 metres at the 2016 Summer Olympics was the men's long-distance track event in Rio de Janeiro where Mo Farah completed his historic Olympic distance double.
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D.
Nordic skiing events at the 1952 Winter Olympics
The Nordic skiing events at the 1952 Winter Olympics comprised the cross-country, ski jumping, and Nordic combined competitions held as part of the Oslo Winter Games.
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E.
men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics
The men’s 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics was a marquee sprint event in Berlin that featured some of the era’s fastest athletes, including Jesse Owens and Tinus Osendarp, and became historically significant amid the Games’ charged political atmosphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic athletics event
ⓘ
men's middle-distance running event ⓘ |
| category | Olympic men's 1500 metres ⓘ |
| chronology |
followed by 1500 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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preceded by 1500 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | international ⓘ |
| discipline | track and field ⓘ |
| distance | 1500 metres ⓘ |
| eventType | individual event ⓘ |
| featuredAthlete | future sub-four-minute miler Roger Bannister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| games | 1952 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | men's ⓘ |
| governingBody |
International Association of Athletics Federations
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
International Olympic Committee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostCity | Helsinki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostCountry | Finland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| measurementSystem | metric ⓘ |
| medalEvent |
bronze medal
ⓘ
gold medal ⓘ silver medal ⓘ |
| notableCompetitor |
Bob McMillen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Josy Barthel NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger Bannister NERFINISHED ⓘ Werner Lueg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| recordTypeContested |
Olympic record
ⓘ
world record ⓘ |
| rounds |
final
ⓘ
heats ⓘ |
| sport | athletics ⓘ |
| surface | cinder track ⓘ |
| timingMethod | hand timing ⓘ |
| venue | Helsinki Olympic Stadium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: 1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics Description of subject: The 1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics was the men's middle-distance track event in which future sub-four-minute mile legend Roger Bannister competed on the international stage.
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