Larry Holmes
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Holmes canonical | 34 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T270167 — 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: Larry Holmes Context triple: [Holmes, hasNotableBearer, Larry Holmes]
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A.
Don King
Don King is an American boxing promoter famous for organizing some of the sport’s biggest championship fights and for his flamboyant, controversial public persona.
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B.
Willie Pep
Willie Pep was an American professional boxer widely regarded as one of the greatest featherweights in history, famed for his exceptional defensive skills and ringcraft.
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C.
Tyson
Tyson is the surname of Neil deGrasse Tyson, the prominent American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.
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D.
Gunnar Nelson
Gunnar Nelson is an Icelandic mixed martial artist and Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist known for his grappling-focused fighting style in the UFC.
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E.
Barney Ross
Barney Ross was a renowned American professional boxer and three-division world champion during the 1930s, celebrated for his skill, toughness, and memorable title bouts.
- 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: Larry Holmes Target entity description: 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.
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A.
Don King
Don King is an American boxing promoter famous for organizing some of the sport’s biggest championship fights and for his flamboyant, controversial public persona.
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B.
Willie Pep
Willie Pep was an American professional boxer widely regarded as one of the greatest featherweights in history, famed for his exceptional defensive skills and ringcraft.
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C.
Tyson
Tyson is the surname of Neil deGrasse Tyson, the prominent American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.
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D.
Gunnar Nelson
Gunnar Nelson is an Icelandic mixed martial artist and Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist known for his grappling-focused fighting style in the UFC.
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E.
Barney Ross
Barney Ross was a renowned American professional boxer and three-division world champion during the 1930s, celebrated for his skill, toughness, and memorable title bouts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Larry Holmes Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Palmer Township, Pennsylvania, United States
subject linked to:
Jinx
subject linked to:
World Heavyweight Championship