Antonio Tarver
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Antonio Tarver is an American former professional boxer best known as a multiple-time light heavyweight world champion and for his trilogy of fights with Roy Jones Jr.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Antonio Tarver canonical | 6 |
| Antonio Tarver Jr. | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2742239 — 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: Antonio Tarver Context triple: [Bernard Hopkins, defeated, Antonio Tarver]
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A.
Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins is an American former professional boxer renowned for his longevity, defensive mastery, and reign as a multiple-time world champion in the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions.
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B.
Meldrick Taylor
Meldrick Taylor is an American former professional boxer and Olympic gold medalist known for his exceptional hand speed and his dramatic 1990 title fight against Julio César Chávez.
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C.
Trevor Berbick
Trevor Berbick was a Jamaican-born heavyweight boxer best known as the last man to fight and defeat Muhammad Ali and later losing his WBC title to a young Mike Tyson.
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D.
Shane Mosley
Shane Mosley is an American former professional boxer renowned as a multiple-weight world champion and one of the sport’s top pound-for-pound fighters of his era.
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E.
Larry Holmes
Larry Holmes is an American former professional boxer best known as the long-reigning WBC and IBF heavyweight champion who successfully defended his title 20 times between 1978 and 1985.
- 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: Antonio Tarver Target entity description: Antonio Tarver is an American former professional boxer best known as a multiple-time light heavyweight world champion and for his trilogy of fights with Roy Jones Jr.
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A.
Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins is an American former professional boxer renowned for his longevity, defensive mastery, and reign as a multiple-time world champion in the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions.
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B.
Meldrick Taylor
Meldrick Taylor is an American former professional boxer and Olympic gold medalist known for his exceptional hand speed and his dramatic 1990 title fight against Julio César Chávez.
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C.
Trevor Berbick
Trevor Berbick was a Jamaican-born heavyweight boxer best known as the last man to fight and defeat Muhammad Ali and later losing his WBC title to a young Mike Tyson.
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D.
Shane Mosley
Shane Mosley is an American former professional boxer renowned as a multiple-weight world champion and one of the sport’s top pound-for-pound fighters of his era.
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E.
Larry Holmes
Larry Holmes is an American former professional boxer best known as the long-reigning WBC and IBF heavyweight champion who successfully defended his title 20 times between 1978 and 1985.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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professional boxer ⓘ world champion ⓘ |
| Antonio Tarver Jr. occupation | professional boxer ⓘ |
| child |
Antonio Tarver
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Antonio Tarver Jr.
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1968-11-21 ⓘ |
| familyName | Tarver ⓘ |
| givenName | Antonio ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Antonio Tarver
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Antonio Tarver Jr.
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| height | 6 ft 2 in ⓘ |
| heightInMeters | 1.88 ⓘ |
| isKnownFor | trilogy of fights with Roy Jones Jr. ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medal | bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in light heavyweight boxing ⓘ |
| medalistIn |
amateur world boxing championships
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surface form:
1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships
1996 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| name | Antonio Tarver self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | portrayal of Mason 'The Line' Dixon in the film Rocky Balboa ⓘ |
| occupation |
boxer
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boxing commentator ⓘ |
| opponent |
Chad Dawson
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Eric Harding ⓘ Glen Johnson ⓘ Montell Griffin ⓘ Roy Jones Jr. ⓘ |
| participantIn |
2004 fight vs Glen Johnson
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2004 fight vs Roy Jones Jr. II ⓘ 2005 fight vs Roy Jones Jr. III ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Orlando, Florida, United States ⓘ |
| residence |
Florida
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surface form:
Florida, United States
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| retiredFromBoxing | yes ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| stance | southpaw ⓘ |
| titleHeld |
IBF light heavyweight title
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IBO light heavyweight title ⓘ The Ring light heavyweight title ⓘ WBA light heavyweight title ⓘ WBC light heavyweight title ⓘ |
| turnedProfessionalIn | 1997 ⓘ |
| weightClass |
cruiserweight
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light heavyweight ⓘ |
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: Antonio Tarver Description of subject: Antonio Tarver is an American former professional boxer best known as a multiple-time light heavyweight world champion and for his trilogy of fights with Roy Jones Jr.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Antonio Tarver Jr.
this entity surface form:
Antonio Tarver Jr.
subject surface form:
Bernard Hopkins