IBF middleweight title
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The IBF middleweight title is a world championship boxing title sanctioned by the International Boxing Federation for competitors in the middleweight division.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| IBF middleweight title canonical | 3 |
| IBF world middleweight title | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2742223 — 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: IBF middleweight title Context triple: [Bernard Hopkins, heldTitle, IBF middleweight title]
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A.
IBF light welterweight title
The IBF light welterweight title is a world championship boxing title at 140 pounds sanctioned by the International Boxing Federation.
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B.
WBA cruiserweight title
The WBA cruiserweight title is a major professional boxing world championship sanctioned by the World Boxing Association for fighters in the cruiserweight division.
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C.
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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D.
World Featherweight Title
The World Featherweight Title is a prestigious professional boxing championship contested by fighters in the featherweight division and has been held by legendary boxers such as Henry Armstrong.
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E.
World Lightweight Title
The World Lightweight Title is a prestigious professional boxing championship contested by fighters in the lightweight division.
- 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: IBF middleweight title Target entity description: The IBF middleweight title is a world championship boxing title sanctioned by the International Boxing Federation for competitors in the middleweight division.
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A.
IBF light welterweight title
The IBF light welterweight title is a world championship boxing title at 140 pounds sanctioned by the International Boxing Federation.
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B.
WBA cruiserweight title
The WBA cruiserweight title is a major professional boxing world championship sanctioned by the World Boxing Association for fighters in the cruiserweight division.
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C.
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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D.
World Featherweight Title
The World Featherweight Title is a prestigious professional boxing championship contested by fighters in the featherweight division and has been held by legendary boxers such as Henry Armstrong.
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E.
World Lightweight Title
The World Lightweight Title is a prestigious professional boxing championship contested by fighters in the lightweight division.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
boxing championship
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sports title ⓘ world boxing title ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
IBF middleweight title
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
IBF world middleweight title
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| associatedWith |
International Boxing Federation
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surface form:
International Boxing Federation world championships
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| awardedFor | winning an IBF-sanctioned middleweight world championship bout ⓘ |
| category | IBF world titles ⓘ |
| competitionType | professional boxing ⓘ |
| defenseRequirement | champion must defend against mandatory challengers ⓘ |
| discipline | professional prizefighting ⓘ |
| divisionLimit |
160 pounds
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72.57 kilograms ⓘ |
| eligibility |
middleweight division competitors
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professional boxers ⓘ |
| genderCategory | primarily men’s professional boxing ⓘ |
| geographicScope | international ⓘ |
| governingRules | IBF rules ⓘ |
| matchFormat | scheduled championship distance bouts ⓘ |
| organizationTypeOfSanctioningBody | worldwide boxing sanctioning organization ⓘ |
| rankingBasis | IBF middleweight rankings ⓘ |
| sanctionedBy |
International Boxing Federation
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surface form:
IBF Championships Committee
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| sanctioningBody | International Boxing Federation ⓘ |
| scope | world ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| strippingCondition | champion can be stripped for failing to meet IBF obligations ⓘ |
| titleStatus |
can be held by a single champion at a time
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can be vacant ⓘ |
| unification | can be unified with other major middleweight world titles ⓘ |
| weightClass | middleweight ⓘ |
| weightClassAbove | super middleweight ⓘ |
| weightClassBelow | light middleweight ⓘ |
| weightRange | over 154 pounds up to 160 pounds ⓘ |
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: IBF middleweight title Description of subject: The IBF middleweight title is a world championship boxing title sanctioned by the International Boxing Federation for competitors in the middleweight division.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bernard Hopkins
this entity surface form:
IBF world middleweight title