Mike Powell
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Mike Powell is an American former long jumper best known for setting the still-standing men's long jump world record of 8.95 meters in 1991.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mike Powell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10556762 — 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)
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Target entity: Mike Powell Context triple: [1991 World Championships in Athletics, goldMedalWinnerIn men's long jump, Mike Powell]
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Bob Beamon
Bob Beamon is an American long jumper best known for his astonishing world-record leap at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, which stood for nearly 23 years and became one of the most iconic moments in sports history.
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B.
Edwin Moses
Edwin Moses is an American track and field legend best known for his dominance in the 400-meter hurdles, including an unprecedented winning streak and multiple Olympic gold medals.
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C.
Daley Thompson
Daley Thompson is a British former decathlete widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport, having dominated the event in the late 1970s and 1980s with multiple Olympic and world titles.
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D.
Dick Fosbury
Dick Fosbury was an American high jumper who revolutionized the sport by introducing the "Fosbury Flop" technique, which he used to win gold at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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E.
Sergei Bubka
Sergei Bubka is a legendary Ukrainian pole vaulter renowned for dominating the sport in the 1980s and 1990s and repeatedly breaking the world record.
- 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: Mike Powell Target entity description: Mike Powell is an American former long jumper best known for setting the still-standing men's long jump world record of 8.95 meters in 1991.
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A.
Bob Beamon
Bob Beamon is an American long jumper best known for his astonishing world-record leap at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, which stood for nearly 23 years and became one of the most iconic moments in sports history.
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B.
Edwin Moses
Edwin Moses is an American track and field legend best known for his dominance in the 400-meter hurdles, including an unprecedented winning streak and multiple Olympic gold medals.
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C.
Daley Thompson
Daley Thompson is a British former decathlete widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport, having dominated the event in the late 1970s and 1980s with multiple Olympic and world titles.
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D.
Dick Fosbury
Dick Fosbury was an American high jumper who revolutionized the sport by introducing the "Fosbury Flop" technique, which he used to win gold at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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E.
Sergei Bubka
Sergei Bubka is a legendary Ukrainian pole vaulter renowned for dominating the sport in the 1980s and 1990s and repeatedly breaking the world record.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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long jumper ⓘ |
| brokeRecordEvent | men's long jump world record ⓘ |
| brokeRecordOf | Bob Beamon ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| discipline | long jump ⓘ |
| event | long jump ⓘ |
| familyName | Powell ⓘ |
| formerAthlete | true ⓘ |
| givenName | Mike ⓘ |
| isRetired | true ⓘ |
| knownFor | men's long jump world record ⓘ |
| name | Mike Powell ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | set men's long jump world record of 8.95 m in 1991 ⓘ |
| occupation |
athlete
ⓘ
long jumper ⓘ |
| participatedIn | 1991 World Championships in Athletics ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport |
athletics
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track and field ⓘ |
| worldRecord | long jump ⓘ |
| worldRecordCity | Tokyo ⓘ |
| worldRecordCompetition | 1991 World Championships in Athletics ⓘ |
| worldRecordCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| worldRecordDistance | 8.95 metres ⓘ |
| worldRecordEvent | men's long jump ⓘ |
| worldRecordStatus | still standing ⓘ |
| worldRecordYear | 1991 ⓘ |
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: Mike Powell Description of subject: Mike Powell is an American former long jumper best known for setting the still-standing men's long jump world record of 8.95 meters in 1991.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.