WBC lightweight title
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The WBC lightweight title is a prestigious world boxing championship in the lightweight division sanctioned by the World Boxing Council.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WBC lightweight title canonical | 8 |
| WBC World Lightweight Championship | 2 |
| WBC lightweight champion | 1 |
| WBC lightweight champions | 1 |
| WBC lightweight championship | 1 |
| WBC lightweight rankings | 1 |
| WBC lightweight world champion | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2736054 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: WBC lightweight title Context triple: [Julio César Chávez, heldTitle, WBC lightweight title]
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A.
World Lightweight Title
The World Lightweight Title is a prestigious professional boxing championship contested by fighters in the lightweight division.
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B.
World Welterweight Title
The World Welterweight Title is a prestigious professional boxing championship contested by fighters in the welterweight division and historically held by some of the sport’s greatest champions.
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C.
World Featherweight Title
The World Featherweight Title is a prestigious professional boxing championship contested by fighters in the featherweight division and has been held by legendary boxers such as Henry Armstrong.
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D.
WBA
WBA is a professional English football club based in West Bromwich that competes in the English football league system and is traditionally known as West Bromwich Albion.
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E.
World Boxing Association
The World Boxing Association is one of the major international sanctioning bodies that organizes and regulates professional boxing world championship bouts across multiple weight divisions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: WBC lightweight title Target entity description: The WBC lightweight title is a prestigious world boxing championship in the lightweight division sanctioned by the World Boxing Council.
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A.
World Lightweight Title
The World Lightweight Title is a prestigious professional boxing championship contested by fighters in the lightweight division.
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B.
World Welterweight Title
The World Welterweight Title is a prestigious professional boxing championship contested by fighters in the welterweight division and historically held by some of the sport’s greatest champions.
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C.
World Featherweight Title
The World Featherweight Title is a prestigious professional boxing championship contested by fighters in the featherweight division and has been held by legendary boxers such as Henry Armstrong.
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D.
WBA
WBA is a professional English football club based in West Bromwich that competes in the English football league system and is traditionally known as West Bromwich Albion.
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E.
World Boxing Association
The World Boxing Association is one of the major international sanctioning bodies that organizes and regulates professional boxing world championship bouts across multiple weight divisions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lightweight boxing title
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world boxing championship title ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
WBC lightweight championship
ⓘ
linked to:
WBC lightweight title
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| associatedWith | WBC green championship belt ⓘ |
| awardedFor | winning a sanctioned WBC lightweight world title bout ⓘ |
| beltColor | green (primary strap color) ⓘ |
| beltDesignFeatures |
WBC logo
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linked to:
WBC
national flags of member countries ⓘ |
| canBeUnifiedWith |
IBF lightweight title
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linked to:
World Lightweight Title
WBA lightweight title ⓘ WBO lightweight title ⓘ |
| canBeVacatedBy |
failure to defend within mandated period
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moving down in weight ⓘ moving up in weight ⓘ retirement ⓘ |
| category |
combat sports title
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world sports championship ⓘ |
| competitionLevel | world ⓘ |
| contestedIn | 12-round championship bouts (modern era) ⓘ |
| division | lightweight division ⓘ |
| divisionLimit |
135 pounds
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61.2 kilograms ⓘ |
| eligibility | boxers within lightweight weight limit ⓘ |
| genderCategory | men's boxing ⓘ |
| governingBody | World Boxing Council ⓘ |
| hasMandatoryChallengerSystem | true ⓘ |
| hasRankingSystemManagedBy | World Boxing Council ⓘ |
| headquarteredSanctioningBodyCity | Mexico City ⓘ |
| headquarteredSanctioningBodyCountry | Mexico ⓘ |
| historicalPredecessor | earlier world lightweight championships recognized by various bodies ⓘ |
| organizationTypeOfSanctioningBody | international boxing sanctioning organization ⓘ |
| partOf | WBC world titles ⓘ |
| prestigeLevel | one of the four major sanctioning body titles at lightweight ⓘ |
| rankingBasis |
WBC lightweight rankings
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linked to:
WBC lightweight title
|
| recognizedAs | major world title in lightweight division ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | boxing commissions worldwide ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | WBC championship rules ⓘ |
| requires | professional boxer status ⓘ |
| requiresSanctioningFee | true ⓘ |
| sanctionedBy | World Boxing Council ⓘ |
| sanctioningRulesSetBy | World Boxing Council ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| status | active title ⓘ |
| titleDefenseRequirement | periodic mandatory defenses against top contenders ⓘ |
| titleType |
professional boxing title
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world title ⓘ |
| weightClass | lightweight ⓘ |
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: WBC lightweight title Description of subject: The WBC lightweight title is a prestigious world boxing championship in the lightweight division sanctioned by the World Boxing Council.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: WBC lightweight title
subject linked to:
José Luis Castillo (boxer)
subject linked to:
WBC
linked to: WBC lightweight title
linked to: WBC lightweight title
linked to: WBC lightweight title
linked to: WBC lightweight title
linked to: WBC lightweight title
linked to: WBC lightweight title