1999 Rugby World Cup
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The 1999 Rugby World Cup was the fourth edition of rugby union’s premier international tournament, hosted primarily in Wales and notable for Australia’s victory and the inauguration of several modern rugby venues.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 1999 Rugby World Cup canonical | 13 |
| Rugby World Cup 1999 | 2 |
| Rugby World Cup 1999 matches | 2 |
| 1999 Rugby World Cup final | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T564019 — 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: 1999 Rugby World Cup Context triple: [Principality Stadium, openedForEvent, 1999 Rugby World Cup]
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1995 Rugby World Cup
The 1995 Rugby World Cup was a landmark international rugby union tournament remembered for South Africa’s emotional post-apartheid victory and its powerful role in national reconciliation.
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B.
1987 Rugby World Cup
The 1987 Rugby World Cup was the inaugural men's Rugby Union world championship tournament, co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia and ultimately won by the New Zealand national team.
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C.
2011 Rugby World Cup
The 2011 Rugby World Cup was the seventh edition of rugby union’s premier international tournament, hosted by New Zealand and won by the All Blacks on home soil.
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Rugby World Cup
The Rugby World Cup is the premier international tournament in rugby union, held every four years to determine the world champion among national teams.
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E.
2015 Rugby World Cup
The 2015 Rugby World Cup was the eighth edition of rugby union’s premier international tournament, held in England and won by New Zealand’s All Blacks, who became the first team to claim three World Cup titles.
- 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: 1999 Rugby World Cup Target entity description: The 1999 Rugby World Cup was the fourth edition of rugby union’s premier international tournament, hosted primarily in Wales and notable for Australia’s victory and the inauguration of several modern rugby venues.
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A.
1995 Rugby World Cup
The 1995 Rugby World Cup was a landmark international rugby union tournament remembered for South Africa’s emotional post-apartheid victory and its powerful role in national reconciliation.
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B.
1987 Rugby World Cup
The 1987 Rugby World Cup was the inaugural men's Rugby Union world championship tournament, co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia and ultimately won by the New Zealand national team.
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C.
2011 Rugby World Cup
The 2011 Rugby World Cup was the seventh edition of rugby union’s premier international tournament, hosted by New Zealand and won by the All Blacks on home soil.
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D.
Rugby World Cup
The Rugby World Cup is the premier international tournament in rugby union, held every four years to determine the world champion among national teams.
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E.
2015 Rugby World Cup
The 2015 Rugby World Cup was the eighth edition of rugby union’s premier international tournament, held in England and won by New Zealand’s All Blacks, who became the first team to claim three World Cup titles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: 1999 Rugby World Cup Description of subject: The 1999 Rugby World Cup was the fourth edition of rugby union’s premier international tournament, hosted primarily in Wales and notable for Australia’s victory and the inauguration of several modern rugby venues.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Rugby World Cup 1999 matches
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Rugby World Cup 1999
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Rugby World Cup 1999 matches
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1999 Rugby World Cup final
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Rugby World Cup 1999