Ken Shamrock
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Pancrase fighter
Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter
human
martial arts trainer
mixed martial artist
professional wrestling promoter
submission grappler
Ken Shamrock is an American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler widely regarded as one of the early pioneers and stars of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ken Shamrock canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6107194 — 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: Ken Shamrock Context triple: [UFC 1, fighter, Ken Shamrock]
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A.
Randy Couture
Randy Couture is an American mixed martial artist and actor, best known as a multi-time UFC champion and a prominent figure in the sport’s early mainstream popularity.
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B.
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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C.
Steve Austin
Steve Austin is a retired professional wrestler and actor best known for his "Stone Cold" persona in WWE and roles in action films.
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D.
John Briscoe
John Briscoe was a renowned engineer and water resources expert recognized globally for his contributions to water management and policy.
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E.
Marcus Brody
Marcus Brody is a scholarly, somewhat bumbling museum curator and close friend of Indiana Jones who appears in the Indiana Jones film series.
- 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: Ken Shamrock Target entity description: Ken Shamrock is an American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler widely regarded as one of the early pioneers and stars of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
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A.
Randy Couture
Randy Couture is an American mixed martial artist and actor, best known as a multi-time UFC champion and a prominent figure in the sport’s early mainstream popularity.
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B.
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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C.
Steve Austin
Steve Austin is a retired professional wrestler and actor best known for his "Stone Cold" persona in WWE and roles in action films.
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D.
John Briscoe
John Briscoe was a renowned engineer and water resources expert recognized globally for his contributions to water management and policy.
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E.
Marcus Brody
Marcus Brody is a scholarly, somewhat bumbling museum curator and close friend of Indiana Jones who appears in the Indiana Jones film series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Pancrase fighter
ⓘ
Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter ⓘ human ⓘ martial arts trainer ⓘ mixed martial artist ⓘ professional wrestling promoter ⓘ submission grappler ⓘ |
| adoptiveFather | Bob Shamrock ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
The World’s Most Dangerous Man
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Wayne Shamrock ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
World Wrestling Federation Attitude Era
ⓘ
linked to:
WWF Attitude Era
|
| billedHeight | 6 ft 1 in ⓘ |
| billedWeight | approximately 205 lb ⓘ |
| birthName | Kenneth Wayne Kilpatrick ⓘ |
| competedIn |
UFC 1
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UFC 3 ⓘ UFC 5 ⓘ UFC Superfight Championship bouts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1964-02-11 ⓘ |
| founded | Lion’s Den ⓘ |
| hallOfFame | UFC Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| inductedInto | UFC Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| inductionYear |
2003 (UFC Hall of Fame)
ⓘ
linked to:
UFC Hall of Fame
|
| memberOf |
Pancrase
ⓘ
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ⓘ Ultimate Fighting Championship ⓘ World Wrestling Federation ⓘ |
| mmaDebut | early 1990s ⓘ |
| name | Ken Shamrock ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the early stars of the Ultimate Fighting Championship
ⓘ
popularizing submission grappling in mixed martial arts ⓘ rivalry with Royce Gracie ⓘ rivalry with Tito Ortiz ⓘ |
| occupation |
martial arts trainer
ⓘ
mixed martial artist ⓘ professional wrestler ⓘ promoter ⓘ |
| organizationFounded | Lion’s Den ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Macon, Georgia, United States ⓘ |
| raisedIn |
Susanville, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Susanville, California
|
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Frank Shamrock ⓘ |
| signatureMove |
ankle lock submission
ⓘ
belly-to-belly suplex ⓘ |
| sport |
mixed martial arts
ⓘ
professional wrestling ⓘ |
| style |
catch wrestling
ⓘ
shootfighting ⓘ submission wrestling ⓘ |
| titleHeld |
King of Pancrase
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linked to:
Pancrase
NWA World Heavyweight Championship ⓘ UFC Superfight Championship ⓘ |
| trainedIn |
boxing
ⓘ
freestyle wrestling ⓘ kickboxing ⓘ shootfighting ⓘ submission wrestling ⓘ |
| wrestlingDebut | late 1980s ⓘ |
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: Ken Shamrock Description of subject: Ken Shamrock is an American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler widely regarded as one of the early pioneers and stars of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.