WBC
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WBC (World Boxing Council) is one of the major international professional boxing organizations that sanctions world championship bouts and sets rules and regulations for the sport.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WBC canonical | 17 |
| WBC Cares charity initiative | 1 |
| WBC championship committee | 1 |
| WBC logo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2594370 — 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: WBC Context triple: [Thrilla in Manila, sanctioningBody, WBC]
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A.
WBC
WBC is the official abbreviation for the World Baseball Classic, an international baseball tournament featuring national teams from around the globe.
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B.
WBC Program
WBC Program is a U.S. Small Business Administration initiative that supports women entrepreneurs through a nationwide network of Women’s Business Centers offering training, counseling, and resources to start and grow small businesses.
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C.
WHC
WHC is the commonly used abbreviation for UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre, the body responsible for coordinating the World Heritage Convention and managing the World Heritage List.
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D.
WB
WB is the official vehicle registration code used for motor vehicles registered in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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E.
All Whites
The All Whites are New Zealand's men's national football (soccer) team, representing the country in international competitions such as the FIFA World Cup and Oceania tournaments.
- 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: WBC Target entity description: WBC (World Boxing Council) is one of the major international professional boxing organizations that sanctions world championship bouts and sets rules and regulations for the sport.
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A.
WBC
WBC is the official abbreviation for the World Baseball Classic, an international baseball tournament featuring national teams from around the globe.
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B.
WBC Program
WBC Program is a U.S. Small Business Administration initiative that supports women entrepreneurs through a nationwide network of Women’s Business Centers offering training, counseling, and resources to start and grow small businesses.
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C.
WHC
WHC is the commonly used abbreviation for UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre, the body responsible for coordinating the World Heritage Convention and managing the World Heritage List.
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D.
WB
WB is the official vehicle registration code used for motor vehicles registered in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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E.
All Whites
The All Whites are New Zealand's men's national football (soccer) team, representing the country in international competitions such as the FIFA World Cup and Oceania tournaments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (123)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
boxing organization
ⓘ
sports governing body ⓘ |
| abbreviation | WBC self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
World Boxing Council
ⓘ
surface form:
Consejo Mundial de Boxeo
|
| awards | green championship belt ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith | World Anti-Doping Agency ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Mexico ⓘ |
| foundedAtEvent | World Boxing Conference in Mexico City ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Mexican boxing authorities ⓘ |
| foundingMemberCountry |
Andorra
ⓘ
Argentina ⓘ Australia ⓘ Austria ⓘ Belgium ⓘ Bolivia ⓘ Brazil ⓘ Canada ⓘ Chile ⓘ Colombia ⓘ Costa Rica ⓘ Cuba ⓘ Czechoslovakia ⓘ Denmark ⓘ Dominican Republic ⓘ Ecuador ⓘ Egypt ⓘ El Salvador ⓘ Finland ⓘ France ⓘ Germany ⓘ Greece ⓘ Guatemala ⓘ Haiti ⓘ Honduras ⓘ Hong Kong, China ⓘ
surface form:
Hong Kong
Hungary ⓘ Iceland ⓘ India ⓘ Indonesia ⓘ Iran ⓘ Iraq ⓘ Ireland ⓘ Israel ⓘ Italy ⓘ Jamaica ⓘ Japan ⓘ Lebanon ⓘ Liechtenstein ⓘ Luxembourg ⓘ Malaysia ⓘ Mexico ⓘ Monaco ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ Nicaragua ⓘ Nigeria ⓘ Norway ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ Panama ⓘ Paraguay ⓘ Peru ⓘ Philippines ⓘ Poland ⓘ Portugal ⓘ Puerto Rico ⓘ San Marino ⓘ Singapore ⓘ South Africa ⓘ South Korea ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ Spain ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ Sweden ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ Syria ⓘ Thailand ⓘ Turkey ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Uruguay ⓘ Venezuela ⓘ Yugoslavia ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| hasPresident | Mauricio Sulaimán ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
Clean Boxing Program
ⓘ
WBC self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WBC Cares charity initiative
|
| hasTitle |
WBC World Flyweight Championship
ⓘ
WBC heavyweight title ⓘ
surface form:
WBC World Heavyweight Championship
WBC lightweight title ⓘ
surface form:
WBC World Lightweight Championship
WBC middleweight title ⓘ
surface form:
WBC World Middleweight Championship
WBC welterweight title ⓘ
surface form:
WBC World Welterweight Championship
|
| headquartersLocation |
Mexico City
ⓘ
surface form:
Mexico City, Mexico
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| inception | 1963 ⓘ |
| isAmong | four major professional boxing sanctioning bodies ⓘ |
| mainActivity |
awarding world title belts
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sanctioning world championship boxing bouts ⓘ setting boxing rules and regulations ⓘ |
| previousPresident | José Sulaimán ⓘ |
| recognizesDivision |
bantamweight
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cruiserweight ⓘ featherweight ⓘ flyweight ⓘ heavyweight ⓘ light flyweight ⓘ light heavyweight ⓘ lightweight ⓘ middleweight ⓘ minimumweight ⓘ super bantamweight ⓘ super featherweight ⓘ super flyweight ⓘ super lightweight ⓘ super middleweight ⓘ super welterweight ⓘ welterweight ⓘ |
| regionServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| scope | professional boxing ⓘ |
| setsRule |
maximum number of rounds for title fights
ⓘ
medical and safety standards for boxers ⓘ weight limits for boxing divisions ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| website | https://wbcboxing.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: WBC Description of subject: WBC (World Boxing Council) is one of the major international professional boxing organizations that sanctions world championship bouts and sets rules and regulations for the sport.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
World Boxing Council
subject surface form:
World Boxing Council
this entity surface form:
WBC Cares charity initiative
this entity surface form:
WBC championship committee
this entity surface form:
WBC logo
subject surface form:
Julio César Chávez