Abraham Washington Attell
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Abraham Washington Attell was an American professional boxer and long-reigning world featherweight champion in the early 20th century, later infamously linked to the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Abraham Washington Attell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3521734 — 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: Abraham Washington Attell Context triple: [Abe Attell, fullName, Abraham Washington Attell]
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A.
Geronimo Pratt
Geronimo Pratt was a prominent Black Panther Party leader and Vietnam War veteran who became a symbol of wrongful conviction and political repression in the United States after his controversial murder conviction was overturned.
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B.
Abraham Anderson
Abraham Anderson was an American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Campbell Soup Company.
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C.
Abraham Martin
Abraham Martin was a 17th-century French settler and royal pilot in New France whose name was given to the historic Plains of Abraham in Quebec City.
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D.
Frank Irving Cobb
Frank Irving Cobb was an influential American journalist and editor best known for leading the New York World’s editorial page in the early 20th century.
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E.
William Terrell
William Terrell was an American politician and public figure from Georgia, honored as the namesake of Terrell County.
- 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: Abraham Washington Attell Target entity description: Abraham Washington Attell was an American professional boxer and long-reigning world featherweight champion in the early 20th century, later infamously linked to the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
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A.
Geronimo Pratt
Geronimo Pratt was a prominent Black Panther Party leader and Vietnam War veteran who became a symbol of wrongful conviction and political repression in the United States after his controversial murder conviction was overturned.
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B.
Abraham Anderson
Abraham Anderson was an American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Campbell Soup Company.
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C.
Abraham Martin
Abraham Martin was a 17th-century French settler and royal pilot in New France whose name was given to the historic Plains of Abraham in Quebec City.
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D.
Frank Irving Cobb
Frank Irving Cobb was an influential American journalist and editor best known for leading the New York World’s editorial page in the early 20th century.
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E.
William Terrell
William Terrell was an American politician and public figure from Georgia, honored as the namesake of Terrell County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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professional boxer ⓘ world featherweight boxing champion ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Abe Attell ⓘ |
| boxingStyle | orthodox stance ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
New Paltz, New York
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surface form:
New Paltz, New York, United States
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| careerStart | early 1900s ⓘ |
| causeOfNotoriety | alleged role as intermediary between gamblers and players in Black Sox scandal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1884-02-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1970-02-07 ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| givenName | Abraham ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | International Boxing Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| handedness | right-handed ⓘ |
| height | approximately 5 ft 4 in ⓘ |
| legalOutcome |
charges eventually dropped in Black Sox case
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indicted in connection with Black Sox scandal ⓘ |
| nickname |
Abe Attell
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The Little Hebrew ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | defended world featherweight title numerous times ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in the 1919 Black Sox scandal
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long-reigning world featherweight boxing title reign ⓘ |
| occupation | boxer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1919 Black Sox Scandal
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surface form:
1919 World Series game-fixing conspiracy
1919 Black Sox Scandal ⓘ
surface form:
Black Sox scandal
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| placeOfBirth |
San Francisco, California, United States of America
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surface form:
San Francisco, California, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
New Paltz, New York
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surface form:
New Paltz, New York, United States
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| positionHeld | world featherweight champion ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Caesar Attell
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Monte Attell ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| titleReignEnd | 1912 ⓘ |
| titleReignStart | 1903 ⓘ |
| weightClass | featherweight ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Abraham Washington Attell Description of subject: Abraham Washington Attell was an American professional boxer and long-reigning world featherweight champion in the early 20th century, later infamously linked to the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.