speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
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Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics was a set of long-track ice racing events held in Nagano, Japan, featuring multiple distances for men and women and resulting in several Olympic and world records.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8445711 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics Context triple: [500 m speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics, partOf, speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics]
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speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics was a series of long-track ice racing events in Salt Lake City that saw numerous world and Olympic records broken on one of the fastest ice surfaces in history.
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short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics was the Olympic short track competition held in Nagano, Japan, featuring multiple men’s and women’s events contested on a 111.12 m oval track.
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500 m speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
500 m speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics was a short-distance speed skating event in Nagano where Canadian skater Catriona Le May Doan captured the gold medal.
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D.
short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics was a high-speed ice racing competition in Pyeongchang featuring multiple men’s and women’s events contested on a tight oval track.
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E.
1000 m speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
The 1000 m speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics was a long-track speed skating event held in Nagano, Japan, featuring top international skaters competing over a distance of one kilometer for Olympic medals.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics Target entity description: Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics was a set of long-track ice racing events held in Nagano, Japan, featuring multiple distances for men and women and resulting in several Olympic and world records.
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A.
speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics was a series of long-track ice racing events in Salt Lake City that saw numerous world and Olympic records broken on one of the fastest ice surfaces in history.
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B.
short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics was the Olympic short track competition held in Nagano, Japan, featuring multiple men’s and women’s events contested on a 111.12 m oval track.
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C.
500 m speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
500 m speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics was a short-distance speed skating event in Nagano where Canadian skater Catriona Le May Doan captured the gold medal.
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D.
short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics was a high-speed ice racing competition in Pyeongchang featuring multiple men’s and women’s events contested on a tight oval track.
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E.
1000 m speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
The 1000 m speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics was a long-track speed skating event held in Nagano, Japan, featuring top international skaters competing over a distance of one kilometer for Olympic medals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic speed skating competition
ⓘ
sporting event ⓘ |
| city | Nagano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| endDate | 1998-02-20 ⓘ |
| eventForMen |
1000 m men
ⓘ
10000 m men ⓘ 1500 m men ⓘ 500 m men ⓘ 5000 m men ⓘ |
| eventForWomen |
1000 m women
ⓘ
1500 m women ⓘ 3000 m women ⓘ 500 m women ⓘ 5000 m women ⓘ |
| genderOfCompetitors |
men
ⓘ
women ⓘ |
| governingBody | International Skating Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostCityCountry | Nagano, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostNation | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| indoorOrOutdoor | indoor ⓘ |
| location | Nagano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medalEvents |
men's events
ⓘ
women's events ⓘ |
| multiSportEvent | Winter Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nextEdition | speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| notableAthlete |
Catriona Le May Doan
NERFINISHED
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Gianni Romme NERFINISHED ⓘ Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann NERFINISHED ⓘ Hiroyasu Shimizu NERFINISHED ⓘ Ida Njåtun NERFINISHED ⓘ Marianne Timmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfCompetitors | 166 ⓘ |
| numberOfEvents | 10 ⓘ |
| numberOfEventsMen | 5 ⓘ |
| numberOfEventsWomen | 5 ⓘ |
| numberOfParticipatingNations | 25 ⓘ |
| partOf | 1998 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| partOfDiscipline | long-track speed skating ⓘ |
| previousEdition | speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordType |
Olympic records
NERFINISHED
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world records ⓘ |
| sport | speed skating ⓘ |
| startDate | 1998-02-08 ⓘ |
| surface | artificial ice ⓘ |
| timePeriod | February 1998 ⓘ |
| trackType | long track ⓘ |
| venue | M-Wave 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: speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics Description of subject: Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics was a set of long-track ice racing events held in Nagano, Japan, featuring multiple distances for men and women and resulting in several Olympic and world records.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
500 m speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
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partOf
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speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
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1000 m speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
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partOf
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speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
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speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
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previousEdition
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speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
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