Beau Jack
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Beau Jack was a popular American lightweight boxing champion of the 1940s, known for his aggressive style and frequent headline bouts at Madison Square Garden.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beau Jack canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3114731 — 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: Beau Jack Context triple: [Fritzie Zivic, notableOpponent, Beau Jack]
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A.
Mickey Goldmill
Mickey Goldmill is the gruff, old-school boxing trainer and mentor of Rocky Balboa in the "Rocky" film series.
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B.
Butch
Butch is the nickname of Butch van Breda Kolff, an American basketball coach and former player known for his tenure in college and professional basketball.
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C.
Bug Jack Barron
Bug Jack Barron is a controversial science fiction novel by Norman Spinrad that satirically explores media manipulation, political corruption, and immortality through the story of a hard-hitting talk show host.
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D.
Bullet Rogan
Bullet Rogan was a legendary two-way star of Negro league baseball, renowned as both a dominant pitcher and powerful hitter in the early 20th century.
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E.
Derek Duke
Derek Duke is a composer best known for creating music for Blizzard Entertainment games, particularly the World of Warcraft series.
- 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: Beau Jack Target entity description: Beau Jack was a popular American lightweight boxing champion of the 1940s, known for his aggressive style and frequent headline bouts at Madison Square Garden.
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A.
Mickey Goldmill
Mickey Goldmill is the gruff, old-school boxing trainer and mentor of Rocky Balboa in the "Rocky" film series.
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B.
Butch
Butch is the nickname of Butch van Breda Kolff, an American basketball coach and former player known for his tenure in college and professional basketball.
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C.
Bug Jack Barron
Bug Jack Barron is a controversial science fiction novel by Norman Spinrad that satirically explores media manipulation, political corruption, and immortality through the story of a hard-hitting talk show host.
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D.
Bullet Rogan
Bullet Rogan was a legendary two-way star of Negro league baseball, renowned as both a dominant pitcher and powerful hitter in the early 20th century.
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E.
Derek Duke
Derek Duke is a composer best known for creating music for Blizzard Entertainment games, particularly the World of Warcraft series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
lightweight boxer ⓘ professional boxer ⓘ |
| activeYearsInSport | 1940s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Madison Square Garden boxing promotions
ⓘ
New York State Athletic Commission ⓘ |
| birthName | Sidney Walker ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications of Parkinson’s disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1921-04-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2000-02-09 ⓘ |
| era | 1940s boxing era ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| facedOpponent |
Bob Montgomery
ⓘ
Chalky Wright ⓘ Fritzie Zivic ⓘ Henry Armstrong ⓘ Ike Williams ⓘ Sammy Angott ⓘ Tippy Larkin ⓘ |
| foughtAtVenue | Madison Square Garden ⓘ |
| foughtInCity | New York City ⓘ |
| foughtInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hallOfFame |
International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee
ⓘ
World Boxing Hall of Fame inductee ⓘ |
| knownFor | drawing large crowds at Madison Square Garden ⓘ |
| militaryService | served in the United States Army during World War II ⓘ |
| name | Beau Jack ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nickname | The Georgia Shoe Shine Boy ⓘ |
| notableEvent | frequent headline bouts at Madison Square Garden ⓘ |
| notableFor | popular American lightweight boxing champion of the 1940s ⓘ |
| occupation | boxer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Waynesboro, Georgia, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Waynesboro, Georgia
|
| placeOfDeath |
Augusta, Georgia, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Augusta, Georgia
|
| postCareerActivity |
worked as a golf caddie
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worked as a shoeshine man after boxing career ⓘ |
| recognition | considered one of the most popular fighters at Madison Square Garden in the 1940s ⓘ |
| recordType | professional boxing record ⓘ |
| residence |
Augusta, Georgia, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Augusta, Georgia
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| style | aggressive boxing style ⓘ |
| titlesHeld |
New York State Athletic Commission World Lightweight Title
ⓘ
linked to:
World Lightweight Title
World Lightweight Champion (New York version) ⓘ
linked to:
World Lightweight Title
|
| trainedAs | shoeshine boy in youth ⓘ |
| 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: Beau Jack Description of subject: Beau Jack was a popular American lightweight boxing champion of the 1940s, known for his aggressive style and frequent headline bouts at Madison Square Garden.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.