Michael Spinks
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Michael Spinks is an American former professional boxer, Olympic gold medalist, and world champion in both the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions, renowned for his technical skill and unorthodox style.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Spinks canonical | 15 |
| Spinks | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1866321 — 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 Spinks Context triple: [Larry Holmes, notableOpponent, Michael Spinks]
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A.
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker was an American boxing great renowned for his exceptional defensive skills and multiple world championships across several weight classes.
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B.
Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns is an American boxing legend known for his devastating punching power, multiple world titles across different weight classes, and classic battles in the 1980s against fellow greats like Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler.
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C.
Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield is an American former professional boxer and undisputed cruiserweight and heavyweight champion, best known for his epic bouts with Mike Tyson and Riddick Bowe.
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D.
Ken Norton
Ken Norton was an American heavyweight boxer best known for his trilogy with Muhammad Ali and for being one of the top contenders of the 1970s.
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E.
Marvin Hagler
Marvin Hagler was an American professional boxer widely regarded as one of the greatest middleweight champions in boxing history.
- 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 Spinks Target entity description: Michael Spinks is an American former professional boxer, Olympic gold medalist, and world champion in both the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions, renowned for his technical skill and unorthodox style.
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A.
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker was an American boxing great renowned for his exceptional defensive skills and multiple world championships across several weight classes.
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B.
Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns is an American boxing legend known for his devastating punching power, multiple world titles across different weight classes, and classic battles in the 1980s against fellow greats like Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler.
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C.
Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield is an American former professional boxer and undisputed cruiserweight and heavyweight champion, best known for his epic bouts with Mike Tyson and Riddick Bowe.
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D.
Ken Norton
Ken Norton was an American heavyweight boxer best known for his trilogy with Muhammad Ali and for being one of the top contenders of the 1970s.
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E.
Marvin Hagler
Marvin Hagler was an American professional boxer widely regarded as one of the greatest middleweight champions in boxing history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic champion
ⓘ
human ⓘ professional boxer ⓘ world boxing champion ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th-century boxing ⓘ |
| competedIn |
heavyweight division
ⓘ
light heavyweight division ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| defeated | Larry Holmes ⓘ |
| familyName |
Spinks
ⓘ
linked to:
Michael Spinks
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| fieldOfWork | combat sports ⓘ |
| genre | professional sports ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasMedal | Olympic gold medal ⓘ |
| hasRelativeInSameField |
Cory Spinks
ⓘ
Leon Spinks ⓘ |
| hasWonTitle |
lineal heavyweight champion
ⓘ
undisputed light heavyweight champion ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Spinks boxing family ⓘ |
| knownFor |
technical boxing skill
ⓘ
unorthodox boxing style ⓘ |
| lostTo | Mike Tyson ⓘ |
| name | Michael Spinks ⓘ |
| nickname | Jinx ⓘ |
| notableFor |
becoming heavyweight champion after moving up from light heavyweight
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breaking Larry Holmes’ long unbeaten streak ⓘ |
| occupation | boxer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Summer Olympic Games
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linked to:
modern Olympic Games
|
| positionPlayed |
heavyweight boxer
ⓘ
light heavyweight boxer ⓘ |
| relative | Cory Spinks ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| retiredFrom | professional boxing ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Leon Spinks ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| stance | orthodox stance ⓘ |
| style | technical boxer-puncher ⓘ |
| wasOlympicBoxerFor | United States of America ⓘ |
| weightClass |
heavyweight
ⓘ
light heavyweight ⓘ |
| won |
Olympic gold medal in boxing
ⓘ
heavyweight world title ⓘ light heavyweight world title ⓘ |
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 Spinks Description of subject: Michael Spinks is an American former professional boxer, Olympic gold medalist, and world champion in both the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions, renowned for his technical skill and unorthodox style.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Easton Assassin
linked to: Michael Spinks
subject linked to:
Spinks boxing family