James "Bonecrusher" Smith
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James "Bonecrusher" Smith is an American former heavyweight boxing champion known for his punching power and for being the first man to stop Mike Tyson’s conqueror, Tim Witherspoon, to win the WBA title.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James "Bonecrusher" Smith canonical | 2 |
| Bonecrusher Smith | 1 |
| James ‘Bonecrusher’ Smith | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6611869 — 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)
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Target entity: James "Bonecrusher" Smith Context triple: [Frank Bruno, fought, James "Bonecrusher" Smith]
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A.
Dean "Motherfucker" Jones
Dean "Motherfucker" Jones is a streetwise, foul-mouthed ex-con consultant who offers criminal advice to the protagonists in the comedy film Horrible Bosses 2.
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B.
Ronnie Brookshire
Ronnie Brookshire is a music producer best known for his work on the album "Second Hand Heart."
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C.
Milan Tyson
Milan Tyson is one of former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson’s daughters, known publicly largely due to her father’s fame.
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D.
Exodus Tyson
Exodus Tyson was the young daughter of former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, whose tragic accidental death in 2009 drew widespread public sympathy.
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E.
Riddick Bowe
Riddick Bowe is an American former heavyweight boxing champion best known for his trilogy of title fights with Evander Holyfield in the 1990s.
- 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: James "Bonecrusher" Smith Target entity description: James "Bonecrusher" Smith is an American former heavyweight boxing champion known for his punching power and for being the first man to stop Mike Tyson’s conqueror, Tim Witherspoon, to win the WBA title.
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A.
Dean "Motherfucker" Jones
Dean "Motherfucker" Jones is a streetwise, foul-mouthed ex-con consultant who offers criminal advice to the protagonists in the comedy film Horrible Bosses 2.
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B.
Ronnie Brookshire
Ronnie Brookshire is a music producer best known for his work on the album "Second Hand Heart."
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C.
Milan Tyson
Milan Tyson is one of former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson’s daughters, known publicly largely due to her father’s fame.
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D.
Exodus Tyson
Exodus Tyson was the young daughter of former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, whose tragic accidental death in 2009 drew widespread public sympathy.
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E.
Riddick Bowe
Riddick Bowe is an American former heavyweight boxing champion best known for his trilogy of title fights with Evander Holyfield in the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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professional boxer ⓘ world heavyweight boxing champion ⓘ |
| achievement | won WBA heavyweight title by stopping Tim Witherspoon ⓘ |
| boxingStyle | orthodox stance ⓘ |
| competitiveDiscipline | professional heavyweight boxing ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| defeated | Tim Witherspoon ⓘ |
| defeatedBy | Mike Tyson ⓘ |
| era | 1980s heavyweight boxing era ⓘ |
| fightingAttribute | knockout power ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | former world champion ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the first man to stop Tim Witherspoon
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punching power ⓘ winning the WBA heavyweight title ⓘ |
| lostTitleTo | Mike Tyson ⓘ |
| name | James Smith ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nickname | Bonecrusher ⓘ |
| notableOpponent |
Frank Bruno
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Larry Holmes ⓘ Mike Tyson ⓘ Tim Witherspoon ⓘ Tony Tubbs ⓘ |
| occupation | boxer ⓘ |
| position | heavyweight contender ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| titleHeld | WBA heavyweight title ⓘ |
| weightClass | heavyweight ⓘ |
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: James "Bonecrusher" Smith Description of subject: James "Bonecrusher" Smith is an American former heavyweight boxing champion known for his punching power and for being the first man to stop Mike Tyson’s conqueror, Tim Witherspoon, to win the WBA title.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Greg Page (boxer)
linked to: James "Bonecrusher" Smith
linked to: James "Bonecrusher" Smith