Michael Dokes
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Michael Dokes was an American professional heavyweight boxer and former WBA heavyweight champion known for his fast hands and notable fights during the 1980s and early 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Dokes canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12290515 — 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: Michael Dokes Context triple: [Riddick Bowe, fought, Michael Dokes]
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A.
Michael Sarnoski
Michael Sarnoski is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing the acclaimed drama "Pig" and later helming the horror prequel "A Quiet Place: Day One."
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B.
Duane Schuler
Duane Schuler is an American theatrical lighting designer known for his work in opera, including major productions at leading opera houses.
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C.
Guy Doleman
Guy Doleman was a New Zealand-born character actor best known for his roles in 1960s British spy films, including appearances in the Harry Palmer and early James Bond movies.
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D.
Mike Dobson
Mike Dobson is a sound designer best known for his work on major stage productions, including SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical.
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E.
Dale Doback
Dale Doback is a childish, unemployed middle-aged man who becomes a reluctant stepbrother and comedic foil to Brennan Huff in the film "Step Brothers."
- 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: Michael Dokes Target entity description: Michael Dokes was an American professional heavyweight boxer and former WBA heavyweight champion known for his fast hands and notable fights during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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A.
Michael Sarnoski
Michael Sarnoski is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing the acclaimed drama "Pig" and later helming the horror prequel "A Quiet Place: Day One."
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B.
Duane Schuler
Duane Schuler is an American theatrical lighting designer known for his work in opera, including major productions at leading opera houses.
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C.
Guy Doleman
Guy Doleman was a New Zealand-born character actor best known for his roles in 1960s British spy films, including appearances in the Harry Palmer and early James Bond movies.
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D.
Mike Dobson
Mike Dobson is a sound designer best known for his work on major stage productions, including SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical.
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E.
Dale Doback
Dale Doback is a childish, unemployed middle-aged man who becomes a reluctant stepbrother and comedic foil to Brennan Huff in the film "Step Brothers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American athlete
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heavyweight boxer ⓘ human ⓘ professional boxer ⓘ world boxing champion ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| competitionClass | professional boxing ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource | American boxing records ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Dokes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
combat sports
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sports ⓘ |
| foughtIn | world heavyweight title bouts ⓘ |
| genre |
professional heavyweight boxing
ⓘ
professional prizefighting ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
fast hands
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offensive boxing style ⓘ |
| hasRole |
WBA heavyweight champion
ⓘ
linked to:
WBA heavyweight title
world champion boxer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | United States national boxing team ⓘ |
| name | Michael Dokes ⓘ |
| notableFor |
World Boxing Association heavyweight title
ⓘ
linked to:
WBA heavyweight title
fast hand speed ⓘ notable heavyweight bouts in the 1980s ⓘ |
| notablePeriod |
1980s
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early 1990s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
fight against Evander Holyfield
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fight against Gerrie Coetzee ⓘ fight against Mike Weaver ⓘ fight against Riddick Bowe ⓘ |
| occupation | boxer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
WBA heavyweight championship bouts
ⓘ
linked to:
WBA heavyweight title
major heavyweight title eliminators ⓘ |
| partOf |
WBA world heavyweight champions
ⓘ
linked to:
WBA heavyweight title
|
| positionPlayed | heavyweight ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| sportDiscipline | professional heavyweight division ⓘ |
| titleHeld |
WBA heavyweight champion
ⓘ
linked to:
WBA heavyweight title
|
| weightClass | heavyweight ⓘ |
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: Michael Dokes Description of subject: Michael Dokes was an American professional heavyweight boxer and former WBA heavyweight champion known for his fast hands and notable fights during the 1980s and early 1990s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.