Samoa Joe
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Samoa Joe is a highly acclaimed professional wrestler known for his intense in-ring style and championship runs in major promotions such as TNA/Impact Wrestling, Ring of Honor, and WWE.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samoa Joe canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7951372 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Samoa Joe Context triple: [Impact Wrestling, hasNotableAlumni, Samoa Joe]
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A.
Quinton Jackson
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson is an American mixed martial artist and actor best known for his successful MMA career in organizations like the UFC and Pride, as well as his role as B.A. Baracus in the 2010 film adaptation of The A-Team.
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B.
Gunnar Nelson
Gunnar Nelson is an Icelandic mixed martial artist and Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist known for his grappling-focused fighting style in the UFC.
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C.
Baron Corbin
Baron Corbin is an American professional wrestler and former NFL player known for his villainous persona in WWE and multiple championship reigns.
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D.
Karl Anderson Jr.
Karl Anderson Jr. is the birth name of American fashion designer Michael Kors, known for his eponymous luxury brand.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Samoa Joe Target entity description: Samoa Joe is a highly acclaimed professional wrestler known for his intense in-ring style and championship runs in major promotions such as TNA/Impact Wrestling, Ring of Honor, and WWE.
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A.
Quinton Jackson
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson is an American mixed martial artist and actor best known for his successful MMA career in organizations like the UFC and Pride, as well as his role as B.A. Baracus in the 2010 film adaptation of The A-Team.
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B.
Gunnar Nelson
Gunnar Nelson is an Icelandic mixed martial artist and Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist known for his grappling-focused fighting style in the UFC.
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C.
Baron Corbin
Baron Corbin is an American professional wrestler and former NFL player known for his villainous persona in WWE and multiple championship reigns.
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Karl Anderson Jr.
Karl Anderson Jr. is the birth name of American fashion designer Michael Kors, known for his eponymous luxury brand.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
professional wrestler ⓘ television commentator ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
AEW Collision (television program)
ⓘ
linked to:
AEW Collision
TNA Impact! (television program) ⓘ
linked to:
TNA Impact!
WWE NXT (television program) ⓘ
linked to:
WWE NXT
WWE Raw (television program) ⓘ
linked to:
WWE Raw
|
| billedFrom |
Huntington Beach, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Huntington Beach
The Isle of Samoa ⓘ
linked to:
Samoa Islands archipelago
|
| birthName | Nuufolau Joel Seanoa ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1979-03-17 ⓘ |
| debut | 1999 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Samoan Americans
ⓘ
linked to:
Samoans
|
| feudedWith |
AJ Styles
ⓘ
Brock Lesnar ⓘ CM Punk ⓘ Finn Bálor ⓘ Kurt Angle ⓘ Shinsuke Nakamura ⓘ |
| hasNickname |
The Destroyer
ⓘ
The Samoan Submission Machine ⓘ |
| hasWonTitle |
AEW TNT Championship
ⓘ
NXT Championship ⓘ NXT Championship (2nd reign) ⓘ
linked to:
NXT Championship
NXT Championship (3rd reign) ⓘ
linked to:
NXT Championship
ROH World Championship ⓘ TNA World Heavyweight Championship ⓘ TNA World Tag Team Championship ⓘ TNA X Division Championship ⓘ WWE United States Championship ⓘ
linked to:
United States Championship
|
| notableMatch |
Samoa Joe vs. CM Punk trilogy (ROH)
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linked to:
CM Punk vs Samoa Joe
Samoa Joe vs. Kenta Kobashi (ROH, 2005) ⓘ Samoa Joe vs. Kurt Angle (TNA, Lockdown 2008) ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Orange County, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Orange County, California
|
| recordHeld |
first three-time NXT Champion
ⓘ
longest single reign as ROH World Champion ⓘ |
| ringName | Samoa Joe ⓘ |
| signatureMove |
Coquina Clutch
ⓘ
Island Driver ⓘ Muscle Buster ⓘ Powerbomb to STF ⓘ STJoe ⓘ |
| stableMemberOf |
The Main Event Mafia
ⓘ
linked to:
Main Event Mafia
The Nation of Violence ⓘ |
| style |
brawling
ⓘ
strong style ⓘ submission wrestling ⓘ |
| trainedBy |
UPW (Ultimate Pro Wrestling)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ultimate Pro Wrestling
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| workedAs |
color commentator for NXT
ⓘ
color commentator for WWE Raw ⓘ |
| wrestledFor |
All Elite Wrestling
ⓘ
Impact Wrestling ⓘ NXT ⓘ
linked to:
WWE NXT
Pro Wrestling Noah ⓘ
linked to:
Pro Wrestling NOAH
Ring of Honor ⓘ Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ⓘ UPW (Ultimate Pro Wrestling) ⓘ
linked to:
Ultimate Pro Wrestling
World Wrestling Entertainment ⓘ
linked to:
WWE
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Samoa Joe Description of subject: Samoa Joe is a highly acclaimed professional wrestler known for his intense in-ring style and championship runs in major promotions such as TNA/Impact Wrestling, Ring of Honor, and WWE.
Referenced by (14)
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