Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr.
E291023
Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. was an American sign painter and musician best known as the father of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. canonical | 6 |
| Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2594495 — 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: Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. Context triple: [Muhammad Ali, parent, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr.]
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A.
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali was an American heavyweight boxing champion renowned for his exceptional skill, charismatic personality, and influential role in sports and civil rights history.
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B.
Ben Elbert Douglas Sr.
Ben Elbert Douglas Sr. was a longtime mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, whose leadership and advocacy for aviation led to the city’s main airport being named in his honor.
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C.
Don King
Don King is an American boxing promoter famous for organizing some of the sport’s biggest championship fights and for his flamboyant, controversial public persona.
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D.
Sonny Liston
Sonny Liston was a dominant American heavyweight boxer of the late 1950s and early 1960s, best known for his powerful punching and his two historic title fights against Muhammad Ali.
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E.
Maxwell Lemuel Roach
Maxwell Lemuel Roach was a pioneering American jazz drummer and composer, renowned as a key architect of bebop and modern jazz drumming.
- 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: Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. Target entity description: Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. was an American sign painter and musician best known as the father of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali.
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A.
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali was an American heavyweight boxing champion renowned for his exceptional skill, charismatic personality, and influential role in sports and civil rights history.
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B.
Ben Elbert Douglas Sr.
Ben Elbert Douglas Sr. was a longtime mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, whose leadership and advocacy for aviation led to the city’s main airport being named in his honor.
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C.
Don King
Don King is an American boxing promoter famous for organizing some of the sport’s biggest championship fights and for his flamboyant, controversial public persona.
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D.
Sonny Liston
Sonny Liston was a dominant American heavyweight boxer of the late 1950s and early 1960s, best known for his powerful punching and his two historic title fights against Muhammad Ali.
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E.
Maxwell Lemuel Roach
Maxwell Lemuel Roach was a pioneering American jazz drummer and composer, renowned as a key architect of bebop and modern jazz drumming.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American sign painter
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| child |
Muhammad Ali
ⓘ
Rudolph Valentino Clay ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Clay ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
ⓘ
rhythm and blues ⓘ |
| givenName | Cassius ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the father of Muhammad Ali ⓘ |
| name | Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | sign painting ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
sign painter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Louisville, Kentucky
|
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Louisville, Kentucky
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Odessa O'Grady Clay ⓘ |
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: Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. Description of subject: Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. was an American sign painter and musician best known as the father of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.