Jess Willard
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Jess Willard was an American heavyweight boxer best known for winning the world heavyweight title from Jack Johnson in 1915.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jess Willard canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10205628 — 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: Jess Willard Context triple: [Jack Johnson, opponent, Jess Willard]
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A.
James J. Corbett
James J. Corbett was an American heavyweight boxing champion of the late 19th century, famed for his scientific fighting style and for defeating John L. Sullivan.
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B.
John V. Sullivan
John V. Sullivan is an American attorney and legislative expert who served as the Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives, advising on procedural rules and legislative process.
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C.
John L. Sullivan
John L. Sullivan was a legendary 19th-century American heavyweight boxer, often regarded as the last bare-knuckle champion and one of the first sports celebrities in the United States.
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D.
John L. Sullivan
John L. Sullivan was an American government official who served in senior defense leadership roles during the mid-20th century.
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E.
James J. Jeffries
James J. Jeffries was an American heavyweight boxing champion of the early 20th century, best known for coming out of retirement to fight Jack Johnson in the 1910 "Fight of the Century."
- 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: Jess Willard Target entity description: Jess Willard was an American heavyweight boxer best known for winning the world heavyweight title from Jack Johnson in 1915.
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A.
James J. Corbett
James J. Corbett was an American heavyweight boxing champion of the late 19th century, famed for his scientific fighting style and for defeating John L. Sullivan.
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B.
John V. Sullivan
John V. Sullivan is an American attorney and legislative expert who served as the Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives, advising on procedural rules and legislative process.
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C.
John L. Sullivan
John L. Sullivan was a legendary 19th-century American heavyweight boxer, often regarded as the last bare-knuckle champion and one of the first sports celebrities in the United States.
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D.
John L. Sullivan
John L. Sullivan was an American government official who served in senior defense leadership roles during the mid-20th century.
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E.
James J. Jeffries
James J. Jeffries was an American heavyweight boxing champion of the early 20th century, best known for coming out of retirement to fight Jack Johnson in the 1910 "Fight of the Century."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
heavyweight boxer
ⓘ
human ⓘ professional boxer ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1881-12-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1968-12-15 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | boxing record books ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Willard ⓘ |
| givenName | Jess ⓘ |
| height | about 6 ft 6 in ⓘ |
| lostTitleTo | Jack Dempsey ⓘ |
| name | Jess Willard ⓘ |
| nickname | The Pottawatomie Giant ⓘ |
| notableFor | defeating Jack Johnson for the world heavyweight title ⓘ |
| occupation | boxer ⓘ |
| opponent |
Jack Dempsey
ⓘ
Jack Johnson ⓘ |
| partOf | history of boxing in the early 20th century ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Pottawatomie County, Kansas, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Pottawatomie County, Kansas
|
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfEvent | Havana, Cuba ⓘ |
| position | world heavyweight boxing champion ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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Kansas, United States ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
World heavyweight title fight vs Jack Dempsey in 1919
ⓘ
World heavyweight title fight vs Jack Johnson in 1915 ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| startTimeOfTitleReign | 1915-04-05 ⓘ |
| title | World Heavyweight Champion ⓘ |
| weightClass | heavyweight ⓘ |
| wonTitleFrom | Jack Johnson ⓘ |
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: Jess Willard Description of subject: Jess Willard was an American heavyweight boxer best known for winning the world heavyweight title from Jack Johnson in 1915.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.