Jerry Quarry
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Jerry Quarry was a prominent American heavyweight boxer of the 1960s and 1970s, known for his toughness and for facing many of the era’s top fighters, including Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jerry Quarry canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8852169 — 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: Jerry Quarry Context triple: [Ken Norton, notableOpponent, Jerry Quarry]
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A.
John Stonehouse
John Stonehouse was a British Labour politician and former cabinet minister best known for faking his own death in 1974 in an attempt to escape financial and legal troubles.
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B.
Ian Hill
Ian Hill is an English bassist best known as a founding member of the heavy metal band Judas Priest.
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C.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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D.
Paul Hill
Paul Hill is an Irish man who became widely known as one of the "Guildford Four," a group whose wrongful convictions for the 1974 Guildford pub bombings became a landmark miscarriage-of-justice case in the UK.
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E.
Michael Barratt
Michael Barratt is a Welsh rock and roll singer best known by his stage name Shakin' Stevens, who became one of the UK's most successful chart acts in the 1980s.
- 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: Jerry Quarry Target entity description: Jerry Quarry was a prominent American heavyweight boxer of the 1960s and 1970s, known for his toughness and for facing many of the era’s top fighters, including Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
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A.
John Stonehouse
John Stonehouse was a British Labour politician and former cabinet minister best known for faking his own death in 1974 in an attempt to escape financial and legal troubles.
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B.
Ian Hill
Ian Hill is an English bassist best known as a founding member of the heavy metal band Judas Priest.
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C.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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D.
Paul Hill
Paul Hill is an Irish man who became widely known as one of the "Guildford Four," a group whose wrongful convictions for the 1974 Guildford pub bombings became a landmark miscarriage-of-justice case in the UK.
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E.
Michael Barratt
Michael Barratt is a Welsh rock and roll singer best known by his stage name Shakin' Stevens, who became one of the UK's most successful chart acts in the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
heavyweight boxer
ⓘ
human ⓘ professional boxer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1992 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1965 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
complications of dementia pugilistica
ⓘ
pneumonia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-05-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1999-01-03 ⓘ |
| draws | 4 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Quarry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fought |
Buster Mathis
NERFINISHED
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Earnie Shavers NERFINISHED ⓘ Floyd Patterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jimmy Ellis NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Frazier NERFINISHED ⓘ Ken Norton NERFINISHED ⓘ Mac Foster NERFINISHED ⓘ Muhammad Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron Lyle NERFINISHED ⓘ Thad Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Jerry Quarry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Jerry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | fighting many top heavyweight contenders of the late 1960s and 1970s ⓘ |
| losses | 9 ⓘ |
| nickname |
Irish Jerry Quarry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Bellflower Bomber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWinOver |
Earnie Shavers
GENERATED
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Floyd Patterson GENERATED ⓘ Mac Foster GENERATED ⓘ Ron Lyle GENERATED ⓘ Thad Spencer GENERATED ⓘ |
| occupation | boxer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | World Boxing Association heavyweight title eliminators NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bakersfield, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Templeton, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ranking | top heavyweight contender in late 1960s ⓘ |
| residence | Bellflower, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Bobby Quarry
NERFINISHED
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Mike Quarry NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Quarry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| stance | orthodox ⓘ |
| totalFights | 66 ⓘ |
| wasKnownFor |
strong counterpunching ability
ⓘ
toughness and durability in the ring ⓘ |
| weightClass | heavyweight ⓘ |
| wins | 53 ⓘ |
| winsByKO | 32 ⓘ |
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: Jerry Quarry Description of subject: Jerry Quarry was a prominent American heavyweight boxer of the 1960s and 1970s, known for his toughness and for facing many of the era’s top fighters, including Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
Referenced by (1)
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