Muhammad Ali
E58195
Muslim
Olympic athlete
civil rights activist
human
professional boxer
world heavyweight boxing champion
Muhammad Ali was an American heavyweight boxing champion renowned for his exceptional skill, charismatic personality, and influential role in sports and civil rights history.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Muhammad Ali canonical | 122 |
| Cassius Clay | 6 |
| Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. | 3 |
| Cassius M. Clay | 1 |
| Great Characters Edition Muhammad Ali | 1 |
| Muhammad Ali plays himself in the film | 1 |
| Muhammad Ali, The Greatest | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T462096 — 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: Muhammad Ali Context triple: [Don King, workedWith, Muhammad Ali]
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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.
Tyson
Tyson is the surname of Neil deGrasse Tyson, the prominent American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.
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Larry Holmes
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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D.
Henry Armstrong
Henry Armstrong was an American professional boxer renowned for simultaneously holding world titles in three different weight divisions during the late 1930s.
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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: Muhammad Ali Target entity description: Muhammad Ali was an American heavyweight boxing champion renowned for his exceptional skill, charismatic personality, and influential role in sports and civil rights history.
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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.
Tyson
Tyson is the surname of Neil deGrasse Tyson, the prominent American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.
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C.
Larry Holmes
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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D.
Henry Armstrong
Henry Armstrong was an American professional boxer renowned for simultaneously holding world titles in three different weight divisions during the late 1930s.
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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 (75)
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: Muhammad Ali Description of subject: Muhammad Ali was an American heavyweight boxing champion renowned for his exceptional skill, charismatic personality, and influential role in sports and civil rights history.
Referenced by (135)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cassius Clay
this entity surface form:
Cassius Clay
this entity surface form:
Muhammad Ali plays himself in the film
this entity surface form:
Cassius M. Clay
this entity surface form:
Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
this entity surface form:
Great Characters Edition Muhammad Ali
this entity surface form:
Cassius Clay
subject surface form:
Michael Parkinson
subject surface form:
Henry Cooper