Jermain Taylor
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Jermain Taylor is an American former professional boxer and undisputed middleweight champion known for his victories over Bernard Hopkins in the mid-2000s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jermain Taylor canonical | 3 |
| Jermain Taylor vs Bernard Hopkins I | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2742242 — 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: Jermain Taylor Context triple: [Bernard Hopkins, lostTo, Jermain Taylor]
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A.
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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B.
Antonio Tarver
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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C.
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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D.
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker was an American boxing great renowned for his exceptional defensive skills and multiple world championships across several weight classes.
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E.
Micky Ward
Micky Ward is a former American professional boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts, best known for his trilogy of brutal, crowd-pleasing fights with Arturo Gatti and for inspiring the film "The Fighter."
- 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: Jermain Taylor Target entity description: Jermain Taylor is an American former professional boxer and undisputed middleweight champion known for his victories over Bernard Hopkins in the mid-2000s.
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A.
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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B.
Antonio Tarver
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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C.
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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D.
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker was an American boxing great renowned for his exceptional defensive skills and multiple world championships across several weight classes.
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E.
Micky Ward
Micky Ward is a former American professional boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts, best known for his trilogy of brutal, crowd-pleasing fights with Arturo Gatti and for inspiring the film "The Fighter."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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professional boxer ⓘ world boxing champion ⓘ |
| amateurAchievement | 1996 U.S. Olympic team member ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1978-08-11 ⓘ |
| era | 2000s professional boxing ⓘ |
| familyName | Taylor ⓘ |
| fight |
Jermain Taylor
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Jermain Taylor vs Bernard Hopkins I
Jermain Taylor vs Bernard Hopkins II ⓘ |
| givenName |
Jermaine
ⓘ
surface form:
Jermain
|
| handedness | right-handed ⓘ |
| height | approximately 6 ft 1 in ⓘ |
| knockouts | over 15 wins by knockout ⓘ |
| knownFor | defeating Bernard Hopkins for the undisputed middleweight championship ⓘ |
| name | Jermain Taylor self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nickname | Bad Intentions ⓘ |
| notableOpponent |
Arthur Abraham
ⓘ
Carl Froch ⓘ Cory Spinks ⓘ Kelly Pavlik ⓘ Winky Wright ⓘ |
| occupation | boxer ⓘ |
| olympicGames | 1996 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| olympicResult | bronze medal in boxing ⓘ |
| opponentDefeated | Bernard Hopkins ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Little Rock, Arkansas
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surface form:
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
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| positionPlayed | orthodox stance ⓘ |
| reach | approximately 74 in ⓘ |
| residence |
Little Rock, Arkansas
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surface form:
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
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| resultAgainstBernardHopkinsI | win by split decision ⓘ |
| resultAgainstBernardHopkinsII | win by unanimous decision ⓘ |
| retired | 2010s ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| status | former professional boxer ⓘ |
| style | orthodox boxer-puncher ⓘ |
| titleHeld |
IBF middleweight title
ⓘ
The Ring middleweight title ⓘ WBA middleweight title ⓘ
surface form:
WBA (Super) middleweight title
WBC middleweight title ⓘ WBO middleweight title ⓘ undisputed middleweight champion ⓘ |
| totalFights | over 35 professional bouts ⓘ |
| turnedProfessional | 2001 ⓘ |
| weightClass |
middleweight
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super middleweight ⓘ |
| wins | over 30 professional wins ⓘ |
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: Jermain Taylor Description of subject: Jermain Taylor is an American former professional boxer and undisputed middleweight champion known for his victories over Bernard Hopkins in the mid-2000s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jermain Taylor vs Bernard Hopkins I