Kenneth Howard Norton
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Kenneth Howard Norton was an American professional heavyweight boxer best known for breaking Muhammad Ali’s jaw and defeating him in a 1973 upset.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kenneth Howard Norton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8852147 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Howard Norton Context triple: [Ken Norton, birthName, Kenneth Howard Norton]
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Leroy P. Steele
Leroy P. Steele was an American mathematician and philanthropist whose bequest to the American Mathematical Society led to the establishment of the prestigious Leroy P. Steele Prizes recognizing outstanding research and exposition in mathematics.
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B.
Albert R. Meyer
Albert R. Meyer is an American computer scientist and professor at MIT known for his influential work in theoretical computer science and the foundations of computation.
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C.
Kenneth Karlin
Kenneth Karlin is a Danish record producer and songwriter best known as one half of the R&B and pop production duo Soulshock & Karlin, who have crafted hits for numerous major international artists.
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D.
Milburn G. Apt
Milburn G. Apt was a United States Air Force test pilot and the first person to exceed Mach 3, who died in the crash of the Bell X-2 during a record-setting flight in 1956.
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E.
John C. Martin
John C. Martin was an American pharmaceutical executive and scientist best known for leading Gilead Sciences’ rise into a major biopharmaceutical company, particularly in antiviral and HIV/hepatitis C treatments.
- 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Howard Norton Target entity description: Kenneth Howard Norton was an American professional heavyweight boxer best known for breaking Muhammad Ali’s jaw and defeating him in a 1973 upset.
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A.
Leroy P. Steele
Leroy P. Steele was an American mathematician and philanthropist whose bequest to the American Mathematical Society led to the establishment of the prestigious Leroy P. Steele Prizes recognizing outstanding research and exposition in mathematics.
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B.
Albert R. Meyer
Albert R. Meyer is an American computer scientist and professor at MIT known for his influential work in theoretical computer science and the foundations of computation.
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C.
Kenneth Karlin
Kenneth Karlin is a Danish record producer and songwriter best known as one half of the R&B and pop production duo Soulshock & Karlin, who have crafted hits for numerous major international artists.
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D.
Milburn G. Apt
Milburn G. Apt was a United States Air Force test pilot and the first person to exceed Mach 3, who died in the crash of the Bell X-2 during a record-setting flight in 1956.
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E.
John C. Martin
John C. Martin was an American pharmaceutical executive and scientist best known for leading Gilead Sciences’ rise into a major biopharmaceutical company, particularly in antiviral and HIV/hepatitis C treatments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
heavyweight boxer
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human ⓘ professional boxer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame
ⓘ
induction into the World Boxing Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| boxingRecord |
1 draw
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42 wins ⓘ 7 losses ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| child | Ken Norton Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Vietnam War era (non‑combat service) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-08-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2013-09-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Jacksonville High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Norton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fight |
Norton vs. Ali I (1973)
NERFINISHED
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Norton vs. Ali II (1973) NERFINISHED ⓘ Norton vs. Ali III (1976) NERFINISHED ⓘ Norton vs. Foreman (1974) NERFINISHED ⓘ Norton vs. Holmes (1978) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Kenneth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | approximately 191 cm ⓘ |
| knockouts | 33 wins by knockout ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | United States Marine Corps boxing team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| nickname | Ken Norton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
breaking Muhammad Ali’s jaw in a 1973 fight
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defeating Muhammad Ali in 1973 ⓘ |
| notableWork | autobiography "Going the Distance" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation | boxer ⓘ |
| opponent |
George Foreman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Larry Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ Muhammad Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Jacksonville, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Ken Norton Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
San Diego, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retired | 1981 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| stance | orthodox stance ⓘ |
| titleHeld | WBC heavyweight title ⓘ |
| turnedProfessional | 1967 ⓘ |
| weightClass | heavyweight ⓘ |
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: Kenneth Howard Norton Description of subject: Kenneth Howard Norton was an American professional heavyweight boxer best known for breaking Muhammad Ali’s jaw and defeating him in a 1973 upset.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.