Micky Ward
E244200
Micky Ward is a former American professional boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts, best known for his trilogy of brutal, crowd-pleasing fights with Arturo Gatti and for inspiring the film "The Fighter."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Micky Ward canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2215143 — 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: Micky Ward Context triple: [The Fighter, mainSubject, Micky Ward]
-
A.
Shane Mosley
Shane Mosley is an American former professional boxer renowned as a multiple-weight world champion and one of the sport’s top pound-for-pound fighters of his era.
-
B.
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker was an American boxing great renowned for his exceptional defensive skills and multiple world championships across several weight classes.
-
C.
Michael Spinks
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.
-
D.
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.
-
E.
Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins is an American former professional boxer renowned for his longevity, defensive mastery, and reign as a multiple-time world champion in the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions.
- 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: Micky Ward Target entity description: Micky Ward is a former American professional boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts, best known for his trilogy of brutal, crowd-pleasing fights with Arturo Gatti and for inspiring the film "The Fighter."
-
A.
Shane Mosley
Shane Mosley is an American former professional boxer renowned as a multiple-weight world champion and one of the sport’s top pound-for-pound fighters of his era.
-
B.
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker was an American boxing great renowned for his exceptional defensive skills and multiple world championships across several weight classes.
-
C.
Michael Spinks
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.
-
D.
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.
-
E.
Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Hopkins is an American former professional boxer renowned for his longevity, defensive mastery, and reign as a multiple-time world champion in the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
light welterweight boxer ⓘ professional boxer ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1990s
ⓘ
2000s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Fight of the Year (Ward–Gatti I)
ⓘ
linked to:
Fight of the Year
|
| basedIn | New England boxing scene ⓘ |
| birthName | George Michael Ward Jr. ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Lowell, Massachusetts
|
| careerStatus | retired ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| fightStyle |
aggressive
ⓘ
pressure fighter ⓘ |
| fought | Arturo Gatti ⓘ |
| givenName | George ⓘ |
| hasPart | left hook to the body as signature punch ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Alice Eklund-Ward
ⓘ
Charlene Fleming ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | film "The Fighter" ⓘ |
| knownFor |
inspiring the film "The Fighter"
ⓘ
trilogy with Arturo Gatti ⓘ |
| lostTo | Arturo Gatti ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | USA professional boxing circuit ⓘ |
| name | Micky Ward ⓘ |
| nickname |
Irish
ⓘ
Micky ⓘ |
| notableEvent | comeback in late 1990s after hiatus ⓘ |
| notableFor |
body punching
ⓘ
crowd-pleasing fighting style ⓘ |
| notableWork | trilogy of fights with Arturo Gatti ⓘ |
| numberOfFightsWithArturoGatti | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation | boxer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Ward–Gatti I
ⓘ
Ward–Gatti II ⓘ Ward–Gatti III ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Mark Wahlberg ⓘ |
| residence |
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Lowell, Massachusetts
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Dicky Eklund ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| stance | orthodox stance ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
biographical film "The Fighter"
ⓘ
linked to:
film "The Fighter"
various boxing documentaries ⓘ |
| trainedIn | Lowell boxing gyms ⓘ |
| weightClass | light welterweight ⓘ |
| wonAgainst | Arturo Gatti ⓘ |
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: Micky Ward Description of subject: Micky Ward is a former American professional boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts, best known for his trilogy of brutal, crowd-pleasing fights with Arturo Gatti and for inspiring the film "The Fighter."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Paul Tamasy
subject linked to:
Charlene Fleming|Amy Adams
subject linked to:
Charlene Fleming|Amy Adams