Leroy Jenkins
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Leroy Jenkins is a popular internet meme originating from a World of Warcraft video in which a player charges recklessly into battle shouting his own name, symbolizing humorous impulsiveness and poor planning.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leroy Jenkins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6274174 — 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: Leroy Jenkins Context triple: [Jenkins, hasNotableBearer, Leroy Jenkins]
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A.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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B.
Clifton McNeely
Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
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C.
Leroy Edwards
Leroy Edwards was an American professional basketball star of the 1930s and 1940s, widely regarded as one of the era’s dominant centers and an early pioneer of the modern post game.
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D.
LeRoy Collins
LeRoy Collins was a mid-20th-century Democratic politician who served as governor of Florida and became known for his moderate stance on civil rights and efforts to modernize the state’s government.
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E.
Carl Jenkins
Carl Jenkins is a psychic military intelligence officer in the Starship Troopers universe, known for his role in the Terran Federation’s war against the Arachnids.
- 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: Leroy Jenkins Target entity description: Leroy Jenkins is a popular internet meme originating from a World of Warcraft video in which a player charges recklessly into battle shouting his own name, symbolizing humorous impulsiveness and poor planning.
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A.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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B.
Clifton McNeely
Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
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C.
Leroy Edwards
Leroy Edwards was an American professional basketball star of the 1930s and 1940s, widely regarded as one of the era’s dominant centers and an early pioneer of the modern post game.
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D.
LeRoy Collins
LeRoy Collins was a mid-20th-century Democratic politician who served as governor of Florida and became known for his moderate stance on civil rights and efforts to modernize the state’s government.
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E.
Carl Jenkins
Carl Jenkins is a psychic military intelligence officer in the Starship Troopers universe, known for his role in the Terran Federation’s war against the Arachnids.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World of Warcraft meme
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catchphrase ⓘ internet meme ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Blizzard Entertainment
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online gaming culture ⓘ |
| becamePopularOn |
YouTube
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gaming forums ⓘ the internet ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
became one of the most famous World of Warcraft memes
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entered broader internet slang ⓘ |
| firstAppearedIn | a video of a raid planning session gone wrong ⓘ |
| genre |
humor
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parody ⓘ |
| hasAudience |
World of Warcraft players
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gamers ⓘ internet users ⓘ |
| hasCatchphrase | LEEROOOOOY JENKINS! ⓘ |
| hasFullNameSpelling | Leeroy Jenkins ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasMemeFormat |
image macros
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reaction videos ⓘ text references ⓘ |
| hasMemeStatusBy | mid-2000s ⓘ |
| medium | online video ⓘ |
| nameOf | a character in a World of Warcraft video ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
contrast between careful planning and sudden chaos
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player shouting his own name before attacking ⓘ |
| originatedFrom | a World of Warcraft raid video ⓘ |
| originatedIn | World of Warcraft ⓘ |
| portrays |
a group wiped out by one person’s actions
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a player ignoring strategy ⓘ |
| referencedIn |
gaming commentary
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internet forums ⓘ various online videos ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
World of Warcraft raids
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online teamwork coordination ⓘ voice chat recordings ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
charging into battle without a plan
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impulsiveness ⓘ poor planning ⓘ reckless behavior ⓘ |
| usedAs |
a humorous reference to bad planning
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a shorthand for reckless rushing in ⓘ |
| usedAsExampleOf |
early World of Warcraft community humor
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viral video culture ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
online games
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project planning jokes ⓘ team-based activities ⓘ |
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: Leroy Jenkins Description of subject: Leroy Jenkins is a popular internet meme originating from a World of Warcraft video in which a player charges recklessly into battle shouting his own name, symbolizing humorous impulsiveness and poor planning.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.