Gerry Cooney
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Gerry Cooney is an American former heavyweight boxer best known for his powerful left hook and high-profile 1980s title fights, including his bout with Larry Holmes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gerry Cooney canonical | 9 |
| Irish Jerry Quarry | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1866319 — 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: Gerry Cooney Context triple: [Larry Holmes, notableOpponent, Gerry Cooney]
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A.
Donald Malarkey
Donald Malarkey was a real-life U.S. Army paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was famously depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
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B.
Dennis Murphy
Dennis Murphy was an American sports entrepreneur best known for co-founding several upstart professional leagues, including the American Basketball Association.
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C.
Tony Geraghty
Tony Geraghty was a member of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who was killed in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
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D.
Kevin O'Connor
Kevin O'Connor is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the online advertising company DoubleClick.
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E.
John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
- 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: Gerry Cooney Target entity description: Gerry Cooney is an American former heavyweight boxer best known for his powerful left hook and high-profile 1980s title fights, including his bout with Larry Holmes.
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A.
Donald Malarkey
Donald Malarkey was a real-life U.S. Army paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was famously depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
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B.
Dennis Murphy
Dennis Murphy was an American sports entrepreneur best known for co-founding several upstart professional leagues, including the American Basketball Association.
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C.
Tony Geraghty
Tony Geraghty was a member of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who was killed in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
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D.
Kevin O'Connor
Kevin O'Connor is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the online advertising company DoubleClick.
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E.
John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
heavyweight boxer
ⓘ
human ⓘ professional boxer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1977 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Manhasset, New York, United States of America ⓘ |
| careerStatus | retired ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-08-24 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | American sports media ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Cooney ⓘ |
| genreOfOccupation | professional sports ⓘ |
| givenName |
Gerry
ⓘ
linked to:
Gerald
|
| hasNotableSkill |
left hook
ⓘ
punching power ⓘ |
| hasResidence |
New Jersey, United States of America
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linked to:
New Jersey, United States
|
| knownFor |
charitable work and advocacy for retired boxers
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co-hosting boxing-related radio shows ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| losses | 3 ⓘ |
| memberOf | World Boxing Council heavyweight rankings (historical) ⓘ |
| name | Gerry Cooney ⓘ |
| notableEvent | challenged Larry Holmes for the WBC heavyweight title in 1982 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
high-profile heavyweight title fights in the 1980s
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powerful left hook ⓘ |
| notableWork | bout with Larry Holmes ⓘ |
| occupation | boxer ⓘ |
| opponent |
George Foreman
ⓘ
Ken Norton ⓘ Larry Holmes ⓘ Michael Spinks ⓘ |
| participantIn |
WBC heavyweight title fight vs Larry Holmes
ⓘ
heavyweight bout vs Ken Norton at Madison Square Garden ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| stance | orthodox ⓘ |
| totalFights | 31 ⓘ |
| weightClass | heavyweight ⓘ |
| wins | 28 ⓘ |
| winsByKO | 24 ⓘ |
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: Gerry Cooney Description of subject: Gerry Cooney is an American former heavyweight boxer best known for his powerful left hook and high-profile 1980s title fights, including his bout with Larry Holmes.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.