Evander Holyfield
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Evander Holyfield is an American former professional boxer and undisputed cruiserweight and heavyweight champion, best known for his epic bouts with Mike Tyson and Riddick Bowe.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Evander Holyfield canonical | 43 |
| Holyfield | 2 |
| multi-time heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T462100 — 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: Evander Holyfield Context triple: [Don King, workedWith, Evander Holyfield]
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Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson is a former American heavyweight boxing champion renowned for his explosive power, intimidating style, and status as one of the most famous and controversial figures in boxing history.
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Larry Holmes
Larry Holmes is an American former professional boxer best known as the long-reigning WBC and IBF heavyweight champion who successfully defended his title 20 times between 1978 and 1985.
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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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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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Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman
Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman was a 1991 heavyweight boxing title fight in which the young champion Holyfield defended his crown against the comebacking former champion Foreman in a highly publicized generational showdown.
- 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: Evander Holyfield Target entity description: Evander Holyfield is an American former professional boxer and undisputed cruiserweight and heavyweight champion, best known for his epic bouts with Mike Tyson and Riddick Bowe.
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A.
Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson is a former American heavyweight boxing champion renowned for his explosive power, intimidating style, and status as one of the most famous and controversial figures in boxing history.
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B.
Larry Holmes
Larry Holmes is an American former professional boxer best known as the long-reigning WBC and IBF heavyweight champion who successfully defended his title 20 times between 1978 and 1985.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman
Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman was a 1991 heavyweight boxing title fight in which the young champion Holyfield defended his crown against the comebacking former champion Foreman in a highly publicized generational showdown.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Evander Holyfield Description of subject: Evander Holyfield is an American former professional boxer and undisputed cruiserweight and heavyweight champion, best known for his epic bouts with Mike Tyson and Riddick Bowe.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Evander Holyfield
Tyson–Holyfield II ear-biting incident
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multi-time heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield
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World Heavyweight Championship
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