World Boxing Association
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The World Boxing Association is one of the major international sanctioning bodies that organizes and regulates professional boxing world championship bouts across multiple weight divisions.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| World Boxing Association canonical | 23 |
| WBA | 13 |
| National Boxing Association | 2 |
| WBA men's professional boxing | 1 |
| WBA rankings | 1 |
| World Boxing Association Championships Committee | 1 |
| World Boxing Association champions | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1370332 — 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: World Boxing Association Context triple: [World Featherweight Title, governingBodiesInclude, World Boxing Association]
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A.
WBA
WBA is a professional English football club based in West Bromwich that competes in the English football league system and is traditionally known as West Bromwich Albion.
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B.
International Boxing Hall of Fame
The International Boxing Hall of Fame is a museum and hall of fame in Canastota, New York, dedicated to honoring the greatest boxers, trainers, and contributors in the sport’s history.
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C.
Ultimate Fighting Championship
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the world’s leading mixed martial arts promotion, organizing high-profile fights across multiple weight classes featuring top fighters from around the globe.
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D.
World Welterweight Title
The World Welterweight Title is a prestigious professional boxing championship contested by fighters in the welterweight division and historically held by some of the sport’s greatest champions.
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E.
Everlast
Everlast is an American musician and rapper best known as the frontman of House of Pain and for his solo hit "What It's Like."
- 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: World Boxing Association Target entity description: The World Boxing Association is one of the major international sanctioning bodies that organizes and regulates professional boxing world championship bouts across multiple weight divisions.
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A.
WBA
WBA is a professional English football club based in West Bromwich that competes in the English football league system and is traditionally known as West Bromwich Albion.
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B.
International Boxing Hall of Fame
The International Boxing Hall of Fame is a museum and hall of fame in Canastota, New York, dedicated to honoring the greatest boxers, trainers, and contributors in the sport’s history.
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C.
Ultimate Fighting Championship
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the world’s leading mixed martial arts promotion, organizing high-profile fights across multiple weight classes featuring top fighters from around the globe.
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D.
World Welterweight Title
The World Welterweight Title is a prestigious professional boxing championship contested by fighters in the welterweight division and historically held by some of the sport’s greatest champions.
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E.
Everlast
Everlast is an American musician and rapper best known as the frontman of House of Pain and for his solo hit "What It's Like."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
boxing sanctioning body
ⓘ
non-profit organization ⓘ sports organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
World Boxing Association
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
WBA
|
| alsoKnownAs |
World Boxing Association
ⓘ
surface form:
WBA
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| founded | 1921 ⓘ |
| foundedAs |
World Boxing Association
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
National Boxing Association
|
| foundedBy | Gilberto Mendoza ⓘ |
| governs | world championship boxing titles ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
bantamweight
ⓘ
cruiserweight ⓘ featherweight ⓘ flyweight ⓘ heavyweight ⓘ light flyweight ⓘ light heavyweight ⓘ lightweight ⓘ middleweight ⓘ minimumweight ⓘ super bantamweight ⓘ super featherweight ⓘ super flyweight ⓘ super lightweight ⓘ super middleweight ⓘ super welterweight ⓘ welterweight ⓘ |
| hasRankingSystem | yes ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Panama City
ⓘ
surface form:
Panama City, Panama
|
| industry | professional boxing ⓘ |
| isOneOf | four major boxing sanctioning bodies ⓘ |
| issuesTitle |
WBA regular champion
ⓘ
WBA super champion ⓘ WBA world champion ⓘ |
| leaderName |
Gilberto Mendoza
ⓘ
surface form:
Gilberto Mendoza Jr.
|
| leaderTitle | President ⓘ |
| movedHeadquartersTo |
Panama City
ⓘ
surface form:
Panama City, Panama
|
| officialLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| originalHeadquartersLocation |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| parentOrganization | none ⓘ |
| peerOrganization |
International Boxing Federation
ⓘ
World Boxing Council ⓘ World Boxing Organization ⓘ |
| predecessor |
World Boxing Association
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
National Boxing Association
|
| purpose |
regulation of professional boxing titles
ⓘ
sanctioning world championship boxing bouts ⓘ |
| regionServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| renamed | World Boxing Association self-link ⓘ |
| renamedIn | 1962 ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| typeOfOrganization | international sanctioning body ⓘ |
| website | https://www.wbaboxing.com ⓘ |
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: World Boxing Association Description of subject: The World Boxing Association is one of the major international sanctioning bodies that organizes and regulates professional boxing world championship bouts across multiple weight divisions.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
WBA
this entity surface form:
WBA
this entity surface form:
WBA
this entity surface form:
National Boxing Association
this entity surface form:
National Boxing Association
this entity surface form:
WBA
subject surface form:
World Boxing Championships
this entity surface form:
World Boxing Association champions
this entity surface form:
WBA
this entity surface form:
WBA
this entity surface form:
WBA
this entity surface form:
WBA rankings
this entity surface form:
World Boxing Association Championships Committee
this entity surface form:
WBA
subject surface form:
Julio César Chávez
this entity surface form:
WBA
this entity surface form:
WBA
this entity surface form:
WBA
this entity surface form:
WBA men's professional boxing
this entity surface form:
WBA
this entity surface form:
WBA