Jack Johnson vs. Jess Willard
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Jack Johnson vs. Jess Willard was the 1915 world heavyweight boxing championship bout in Havana where Johnson lost his title to Willard, marking a pivotal moment in boxing and racial history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack Johnson vs. Jess Willard canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10205627 — 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: Jack Johnson vs. Jess Willard Context triple: [Jack Johnson, notableFight, Jack Johnson vs. Jess Willard]
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A.
Jack Johnson vs. James J. Jeffries
"Jack Johnson vs. James J. Jeffries" was the historic 1910 heavyweight boxing match in Reno, Nevada, where Jack Johnson defeated former champion James J. Jeffries in a racially charged bout widely dubbed the "Fight of the Century."
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B.
Dempsey–Tunney boxing matches
The Dempsey–Tunney boxing matches were a famous pair of 1920s world heavyweight title bouts between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, including the legendary "Long Count Fight," that became some of the most celebrated events in boxing history.
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C.
Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman
Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman, known as "The Rumble in the Jungle," was the legendary 1974 heavyweight boxing match in Zaire where Ali regained the world title with his famous "rope-a-dope" strategy.
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D.
Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney
Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney was a highly publicized 1982 world heavyweight title bout that became a major cultural event in boxing history, marked by its intense media buildup and racial overtones.
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E.
Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman
Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman was a 1991 heavyweight boxing title fight in which the young champion Holyfield defended his crown against the comebacking former champion Foreman in a highly publicized generational showdown.
- 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: Jack Johnson vs. Jess Willard Target entity description: Jack Johnson vs. Jess Willard was the 1915 world heavyweight boxing championship bout in Havana where Johnson lost his title to Willard, marking a pivotal moment in boxing and racial history.
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A.
Jack Johnson vs. James J. Jeffries
"Jack Johnson vs. James J. Jeffries" was the historic 1910 heavyweight boxing match in Reno, Nevada, where Jack Johnson defeated former champion James J. Jeffries in a racially charged bout widely dubbed the "Fight of the Century."
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B.
Dempsey–Tunney boxing matches
The Dempsey–Tunney boxing matches were a famous pair of 1920s world heavyweight title bouts between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, including the legendary "Long Count Fight," that became some of the most celebrated events in boxing history.
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C.
Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman
Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman, known as "The Rumble in the Jungle," was the legendary 1974 heavyweight boxing match in Zaire where Ali regained the world title with his famous "rope-a-dope" strategy.
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D.
Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney
Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney was a highly publicized 1982 world heavyweight title bout that became a major cultural event in boxing history, marked by its intense media buildup and racial overtones.
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E.
Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman
Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman was a 1991 heavyweight boxing title fight in which the young champion Holyfield defended his crown against the comebacking former champion Foreman in a highly publicized generational showdown.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
boxing match
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world heavyweight title fight ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Johnson–Willard fight
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The Fight of the Century (1915) ⓘ |
| challenger | Jess Willard ⓘ |
| championship | World Heavyweight Championship ⓘ |
| city |
Havana
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linked to:
Havana, Cuba
|
| country | Cuba ⓘ |
| date | 1915-04-05 ⓘ |
| defendingChampion | Jack Johnson ⓘ |
| isTitleChange | true ⓘ |
| location |
Cuba
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Havana ⓘ |
| loser | Jack Johnson ⓘ |
| methodOfVictory | knockout ⓘ |
| newChampion | Jess Willard ⓘ |
| notableFor |
end of Jack Johnson’s reign as world heavyweight champion
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racial significance in early 20th-century American and boxing history ⓘ |
| previousChampion | Jack Johnson ⓘ |
| promoter | Jack Curley ⓘ |
| referee | Jack Welch ⓘ |
| result | Jess Willard defeated Jack Johnson by knockout ⓘ |
| roundOfFinish | 26 ⓘ |
| roundsFought | 26 ⓘ |
| scheduledRounds | 45 ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| titleOnTheLine |
World Heavyweight Boxing Championship
ⓘ
linked to:
World Heavyweight Championship
|
| venue | Oriental Park Racetrack ⓘ |
| weightClass | heavyweight ⓘ |
| winner | Jess Willard ⓘ |
| year | 1915 ⓘ |
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: Jack Johnson vs. Jess Willard Description of subject: Jack Johnson vs. Jess Willard was the 1915 world heavyweight boxing championship bout in Havana where Johnson lost his title to Willard, marking a pivotal moment in boxing and racial history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.