Chris Moneymaker
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Chris Moneymaker is an American poker player whose unexpected 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event victory, after qualifying through an online satellite, is widely credited with sparking the global poker boom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Chris Moneymaker canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6373257 — 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: Chris Moneymaker Context triple: [World Series of Poker, notableChampion, Chris Moneymaker]
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A.
Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson is a former American basketball player best known as a dominant center for Oregon State University in the late 1970s and early 1980s and later an NBA veteran.
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B.
Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson is the drummer for the American rock band Alabama Shakes.
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C.
Sean Johnson
Sean Johnson is an American professional soccer goalkeeper known for his standout performances in Major League Soccer and for the U.S. national team.
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D.
Victor Koo
Victor Koo is a Chinese entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Youku, one of China’s leading online video platforms.
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E.
Tom Murray
Tom Murray was an American character actor of the silent film era, known for his supporting roles in early Hollywood productions.
- 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: Chris Moneymaker Target entity description: Chris Moneymaker is an American poker player whose unexpected 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event victory, after qualifying through an online satellite, is widely credited with sparking the global poker boom.
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A.
Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson is a former American basketball player best known as a dominant center for Oregon State University in the late 1970s and early 1980s and later an NBA veteran.
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B.
Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson is the drummer for the American rock band Alabama Shakes.
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C.
Sean Johnson
Sean Johnson is an American professional soccer goalkeeper known for his standout performances in Major League Soccer and for the U.S. national team.
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D.
Victor Koo
Victor Koo is a Chinese entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Youku, one of China’s leading online video platforms.
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E.
Tom Murray
Tom Murray was an American character actor of the silent film era, known for his supporting roles in early Hollywood productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World Series of Poker bracelet winner
ⓘ
human ⓘ poker player ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st-century poker scene ⓘ |
| almaMater |
University of Tennessee
ⓘ
linked to:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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| causeOfFame | 2003 WSOP Main Event victory as an amateur online qualifier ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1975-11-21 ⓘ |
| education | degree in accounting ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Moneymaker ⓘ |
| fullName | Christopher Bryan Moneymaker ⓘ |
| genre | poker ⓘ |
| givenName | Christopher ⓘ |
| hasChild | daughter ⓘ |
| hasPlayedIn |
World Poker Tour
ⓘ
World Series of Poker ⓘ |
| hasRole | poker ambassador ⓘ |
| influenced |
growth of online poker
ⓘ
mainstream popularity of poker on television ⓘ |
| knownFor |
symbolizing the accessibility of poker to amateurs
ⓘ
turning a small online buy-in into a multimillion-dollar WSOP title ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| mediaAppearance | featured on ESPN WSOP broadcasts ⓘ |
| memberOf | PokerStars Team Pro (former) ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nickname | Moneymaker ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
Catalyzed the early-2000s global poker boom
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Qualified for the 2003 WSOP Main Event via an online satellite tournament ⓘ Won the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Heads-up bluff against Sammy Farha in 2003 WSOP Main Event ⓘ |
| notableWork | Moneymaker: How an Amateur Poker Player Turned $40 into $2.5 Million at the World Series of Poker ⓘ |
| occupation |
accountant
ⓘ
professional poker player ⓘ |
| onlinePokerSiteQualifiedThrough | PokerStars ⓘ |
| onlineSatelliteBuyIn | 39 USD ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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linked to:
Atlanta
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| residence |
Tennessee, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Tennessee
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Moneymaker Effect ⓘ |
| worldSeriesOfPokerBracelets | 1 ⓘ |
| worldSeriesOfPokerMainEventRunnerUpDefeated | Sammy Farha ⓘ |
| worldSeriesOfPokerMainEventWinningAmount | 2500000 USD ⓘ |
| worldSeriesOfPokerMainEventWinningHand | 5♦ 4♠ ⓘ |
| yearOfWorldSeriesOfPokerMainEventWin | 2003 ⓘ |
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: Chris Moneymaker Description of subject: Chris Moneymaker is an American poker player whose unexpected 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event victory, after qualifying through an online satellite, is widely credited with sparking the global poker boom.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.