Wanderlei Silva
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Wanderlei Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist famed for his aggressive striking style and legendary run in PRIDE Fighting Championships.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wanderlei Silva canonical | 6 |
| Wanderlei | 1 |
| Wanderlei César da Silva | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3881834 — 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: Wanderlei Silva Context triple: [Mark Hunt, hasWonAgainst, Wanderlei Silva]
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A.
Georges St-Pierre
Georges St-Pierre is a Canadian mixed martial artist widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters in MMA history, known for his dominant championship reigns and well-rounded skill set.
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B.
Jorge Masvidal
Jorge Masvidal is an American mixed martial artist known for his long UFC career, striking skills, and record-setting five-second knockout of Ben Askren.
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C.
Mikey Liddell
Mikey Liddell is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood projects, including the science fiction action movie "Terminator Salvation."
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D.
Chuck Liddell
Chuck Liddell is a retired American mixed martial artist and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion widely regarded as one of the sport’s early superstars and most iconic knockout artists.
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E.
Royce Gracie
Royce Gracie is a pioneering mixed martial artist who popularized Brazilian jiu-jitsu worldwide through his dominant performances in the early Ultimate Fighting Championship events.
- 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: Wanderlei Silva Target entity description: Wanderlei Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist famed for his aggressive striking style and legendary run in PRIDE Fighting Championships.
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A.
Georges St-Pierre
Georges St-Pierre is a Canadian mixed martial artist widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters in MMA history, known for his dominant championship reigns and well-rounded skill set.
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B.
Jorge Masvidal
Jorge Masvidal is an American mixed martial artist known for his long UFC career, striking skills, and record-setting five-second knockout of Ben Askren.
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C.
Mikey Liddell
Mikey Liddell is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood projects, including the science fiction action movie "Terminator Salvation."
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D.
Chuck Liddell
Chuck Liddell is a retired American mixed martial artist and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion widely regarded as one of the sport’s early superstars and most iconic knockout artists.
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E.
Royce Gracie
Royce Gracie is a pioneering mixed martial artist who popularized Brazilian jiu-jitsu worldwide through his dominant performances in the early Ultimate Fighting Championship events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brazilian mixed martial artist
ⓘ
human ⓘ mixed martial artist ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1976-07-03 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Curitiba
ⓘ
surface form:
Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
|
| blackBeltIn | Brazilian jiu-jitsu ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Brazil ⓘ |
| debutInMMA | 1996 ⓘ |
| familyName | Silva ⓘ |
| fightingOutOf |
Las Vegas, Nevada
ⓘ
surface form:
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|
| founded | Wand Fight Team ⓘ |
| fullName |
Wanderlei Silva
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Wanderlei César da Silva
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Wanderlei Silva
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Wanderlei
|
| hasFoughtIn |
Brazil
ⓘ
Japan ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| knownFor |
fighting in PRIDE Middleweight division
ⓘ
multiple Fight of the Night performances in UFC ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Portuguese ⓘ |
| nationality | Brazilian ⓘ |
| nickname |
Cachorro Louco
ⓘ
The Axe Murderer ⓘ |
| notableFor |
aggressive striking style
ⓘ
brutal knees and soccer kicks ⓘ long unbeaten streak in PRIDE ⓘ |
| notableRival |
Chuck Liddell
ⓘ
Dan Henderson ⓘ Kazushi Sakuraba ⓘ Mirko Cro Cop ⓘ Quinton Jackson ⓘ |
| occupation |
gym owner
ⓘ
professional fighter ⓘ |
| organization |
Bellator MMA
ⓘ
Pride Fighting Championships ⓘ
surface form:
PRIDE Fighting Championships
Ultimate Fighting Championship ⓘ |
| residence |
Las Vegas, Nevada
ⓘ
surface form:
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|
| sport | mixed martial arts ⓘ |
| style |
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
ⓘ
Muay Thai ⓘ |
| titleHeld |
Pride Fighting Championships
ⓘ
surface form:
PRIDE 2003 Middleweight Grand Prix Champion
Pride Fighting Championships ⓘ
surface form:
PRIDE Middleweight Championship
|
| trainedAt | Chute Boxe Academy ⓘ |
| weightClass |
catchweight
ⓘ
light heavyweight ⓘ middleweight ⓘ |
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: Wanderlei Silva Description of subject: Wanderlei Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist famed for his aggressive striking style and legendary run in PRIDE Fighting Championships.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mark Hunt
this entity surface form:
Wanderlei César da Silva
this entity surface form:
Wanderlei