Bernard Hopkins
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Bernard Hopkins is an American former professional boxer renowned for his longevity, defensive mastery, and reign as a multiple-time world champion in the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bernard Hopkins canonical | 16 |
| Bernard Humphrey Hopkins Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T462102 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard Hopkins Context triple: [Don King, workedWith, Bernard Hopkins]
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A.
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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B.
Evander Holyfield
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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C.
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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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.
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.
- 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: Bernard Hopkins Target entity description: Bernard Hopkins is an American former professional boxer renowned for his longevity, defensive mastery, and reign as a multiple-time world champion in the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions.
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A.
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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B.
Evander Holyfield
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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C.
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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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.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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professional boxer ⓘ |
| achievement |
first boxer to simultaneously hold WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO middleweight titles
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oldest boxer to unify world titles ⓘ oldest boxer to win a world title ⓘ undisputed middleweight champion ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965-01-15 ⓘ |
| defeated |
Antonio Tarver
ⓘ
Félix Trinidad ⓘ
linked to:
Felix Trinidad
Jean Pascal ⓘ Kelly Pavlik ⓘ Oscar De La Hoya ⓘ |
| employer | Golden Boy Promotions ⓘ |
| familyName | Hopkins ⓘ |
| fullName |
Bernard Humphrey Hopkins Jr.
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linked to:
Bernard Hopkins
|
| givenName | Bernard ⓘ |
| heldTitle |
IBF middleweight title
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IBO light heavyweight title ⓘ The Ring light heavyweight title ⓘ The Ring middleweight title ⓘ WBA (Super) middleweight title ⓘ WBC light heavyweight title ⓘ WBC middleweight title ⓘ WBO middleweight title ⓘ lineal light heavyweight title ⓘ lineal middleweight title ⓘ |
| knownFor |
counterpunching ability
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defensive boxing skills ⓘ longevity in boxing ⓘ ring intelligence ⓘ |
| lostTo |
Jermain Taylor
ⓘ
Joe Calzaghe ⓘ Joe Smith Jr. ⓘ Sergey Kovalev ⓘ |
| memberOf | International Boxing Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| nickname |
B-Hop
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The Alien ⓘ The Executioner ⓘ |
| occupation | boxing promoter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| professionalRecordDraws | 2 ⓘ |
| professionalRecordKOs | 32 ⓘ |
| professionalRecordLosses | 8 ⓘ |
| professionalRecordNoContests | 2 ⓘ |
| professionalRecordWins | 55 ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| retiredIn | 2016 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| stance | orthodox stance ⓘ |
| turnedProfessional | 1988 ⓘ |
| weightClass |
light heavyweight
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middleweight ⓘ |
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: Bernard Hopkins Description of subject: Bernard Hopkins is an American former professional boxer renowned for his longevity, defensive mastery, and reign as a multiple-time world champion in the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.