Clay
E281679
Clay is the birth surname of the legendary American boxer Muhammad Ali, who was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clay canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2594447 — 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: Clay Context triple: [Muhammad Ali, familyName, Clay]
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A.
Areia
Areia is a historic colonial-era city in the Brazilian state of Paraíba, known for its preserved architecture and cultural heritage.
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B.
Talx
Talx is a workforce solutions and employment verification company that operates as a subsidiary of the credit reporting agency Equifax.
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C.
Mitti
Mitti is a character appearing in the film "The Wedding March."
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D.
Alabaster
Alabaster is a suburban city in central Alabama, known as part of the Birmingham metropolitan area and one of the state's larger, rapidly growing communities.
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E.
Stone
Stone is a market town in Staffordshire, England, known historically for its canal and brewing heritage.
- 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: Clay Target entity description: Clay is the birth surname of the legendary American boxer Muhammad Ali, who was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
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A.
Areia
Areia is a historic colonial-era city in the Brazilian state of Paraíba, known for its preserved architecture and cultural heritage.
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B.
Talx
Talx is a workforce solutions and employment verification company that operates as a subsidiary of the credit reporting agency Equifax.
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C.
Mitti
Mitti is a character appearing in the film "The Wedding March."
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D.
Alabaster
Alabaster is a suburban city in central Alabama, known as part of the Birmingham metropolitan area and one of the state's larger, rapidly growing communities.
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E.
Stone
Stone is a market town in Staffordshire, England, known historically for its canal and brewing heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| associatedGivenName | Cassius Marcellus Clay ⓘ |
| birthSurnameOf |
Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
ⓘ
linked to:
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali ⓘ |
| category |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
occupational surnames ⓘ topographic surnames ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Middle English word "clay" ⓘ |
| etymologicalType | metonymic occupational name ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Claye ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| meaning |
occupational name for someone who worked with clay
ⓘ
topographic name for someone who lived near clay soil ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Andrew Dice Clay
ⓘ
Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. ⓘ
linked to:
Cassius Marcellus Clay
Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. ⓘ Henry Clay ⓘ Lucius D. Clay ⓘ
linked to:
General Lucius D. Clay
Muhammad Ali ⓘ Willie Clay ⓘ |
| usageRegion |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ
linked to:
Island of Ireland
United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| usedBy | Muhammad Ali at birth ⓘ |
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: Clay Description of subject: Clay is the birth surname of the legendary American boxer Muhammad Ali, who was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.