International Boxing Federation
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The International Boxing Federation is a major global sanctioning body that organizes and regulates professional boxing world championship bouts across multiple weight divisions.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| International Boxing Federation canonical | 36 |
| International Boxing Federation (IBF) | 2 |
| IBF | 1 |
| IBF Championships Committee | 1 |
| IBF Council | 1 |
| International Boxing Federation world championships | 1 |
| United States Boxing Association | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1370334 — 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: International Boxing Federation Context triple: [World Featherweight Title, governingBodiesInclude, International Boxing Federation]
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World Boxing Association
The World Boxing Association is one of the major international sanctioning bodies that organizes and regulates professional boxing world championship bouts across multiple weight divisions.
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World Boxing Council
The World Boxing Council is one of the major international professional boxing organizations, known for sanctioning world championship bouts and establishing rules and rankings in the sport.
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C.
WBA
WBA is a professional English football club based in West Bromwich that competes in the English football league system and is traditionally known as West Bromwich Albion.
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D.
International Boxing Hall of Fame
The International Boxing Hall of Fame is a museum and hall of fame in Canastota, New York, dedicated to honoring the greatest boxers, trainers, and contributors in the sport’s history.
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E.
Mezhdunarodnaya Khokkeinaya Liga
Mezhdunarodnaya Khokkeinaya Liga is the Russian name for the International Hockey League, a former professional ice hockey league that operated in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: International Boxing Federation Target entity description: The International Boxing Federation is a major global sanctioning body that organizes and regulates professional boxing world championship bouts across multiple weight divisions.
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A.
World Boxing Association
The World Boxing Association is one of the major international sanctioning bodies that organizes and regulates professional boxing world championship bouts across multiple weight divisions.
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B.
World Boxing Council
The World Boxing Council is one of the major international professional boxing organizations, known for sanctioning world championship bouts and establishing rules and rankings in the sport.
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C.
WBA
WBA is a professional English football club based in West Bromwich that competes in the English football league system and is traditionally known as West Bromwich Albion.
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D.
International Boxing Hall of Fame
The International Boxing Hall of Fame is a museum and hall of fame in Canastota, New York, dedicated to honoring the greatest boxers, trainers, and contributors in the sport’s history.
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E.
Mezhdunarodnaya Khokkeinaya Liga
Mezhdunarodnaya Khokkeinaya Liga is the Russian name for the International Hockey League, a former professional ice hockey league that operated in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
boxing organization
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sanctioning body ⓘ sports governing body ⓘ |
| abbreviation | IBF ⓘ |
| alongside |
World Boxing Association
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World Boxing Council ⓘ World Boxing Organization ⓘ |
| collects | sanctioning fees ⓘ |
| continentOfOperation | worldwide ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| founded | 1983 ⓘ |
| foundedAs |
United States Boxing Association
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linked to:
International Boxing Federation
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| hasCompetitionType |
eliminator bout
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interim title fight ⓘ world title fight ⓘ |
| hasFocus |
integrity of rankings
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safety of boxers ⓘ standardization of rules ⓘ |
| hasRegion |
Africa
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Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Latin America ⓘ North America ⓘ Oceania ⓘ |
| hasRuleOver |
fight regulations
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mandatory challengers ⓘ title defenses ⓘ weight limits ⓘ |
| hasType | non-profit organization ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.ibf-usba-boxing.com/ ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| headquartersLocation | Springfield, New Jersey ⓘ |
| isConsidered | one of the four major boxing organizations ⓘ |
| isPartOf | major boxing sanctioning bodies ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maintains |
champions list
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world rankings ⓘ |
| organizes | sanctioned title bouts ⓘ |
| oversees |
IBF regional titles
ⓘ
IBF world champions ⓘ |
| regulates |
multiple weight divisions
ⓘ
world championship bouts ⓘ |
| scope | professional boxing ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| subjectTo | New Jersey state law ⓘ |
| uses | IBF championship belt ⓘ |
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: International Boxing Federation Description of subject: The International Boxing Federation is a major global sanctioning body that organizes and regulates professional boxing world championship bouts across multiple weight divisions.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: International Boxing Federation
subject linked to:
world boxing championships
linked to: International Boxing Federation
linked to: International Boxing Federation
linked to: International Boxing Federation
linked to: International Boxing Federation
World Heavyweight Championship boxing matches
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governingBodiesInclude
→
International Boxing Federation
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linked to: International Boxing Federation
World Heavyweight Championship (boxing)
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governingBodiesInclude
→
International Boxing Federation (IBF)
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subject linked to:
World Heavyweight Championship
linked to: International Boxing Federation