Motor City Cobra
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Motor City Cobra is the ring nickname of Thomas Hearns, the legendary Detroit-born boxing champion known for his height, power, and aggressive fighting style across multiple weight classes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Motor City Cobra canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7174768 — 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)
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Target entity: Motor City Cobra Context triple: [Thomas Hearns, nickname, Motor City Cobra]
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A.
Detroit 300
Detroit 300 was a civic organization formed to plan and promote events commemorating the 300th anniversary of the city of Detroit.
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B.
Electrodrome
Electrodrome is a neon-lit, music-themed race track in Mario Kart 8 featuring pulsating lights, synchronized beats, and twisting anti-gravity sections.
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C.
Silver Scorpion
Silver Scorpion is a Marvel Comics superheroine associated with the World War II–era team the Invaders, known for her costumed crimefighting alongside other Golden Age heroes.
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D.
Corvette Summer
Corvette Summer is a 1978 adventure-comedy film starring Mark Hamill as a teenager obsessed with recovering his stolen, customized Corvette.
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E.
Corsa Rosa
Corsa Rosa is the Italian nickname for the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's three Grand Tours and a premier multi-stage road race held annually in Italy.
- 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: Motor City Cobra Target entity description: Motor City Cobra is the ring nickname of Thomas Hearns, the legendary Detroit-born boxing champion known for his height, power, and aggressive fighting style across multiple weight classes.
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A.
Detroit 300
Detroit 300 was a civic organization formed to plan and promote events commemorating the 300th anniversary of the city of Detroit.
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B.
Electrodrome
Electrodrome is a neon-lit, music-themed race track in Mario Kart 8 featuring pulsating lights, synchronized beats, and twisting anti-gravity sections.
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C.
Silver Scorpion
Silver Scorpion is a Marvel Comics superheroine associated with the World War II–era team the Invaders, known for her costumed crimefighting alongside other Golden Age heroes.
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D.
Corvette Summer
Corvette Summer is a 1978 adventure-comedy film starring Mark Hamill as a teenager obsessed with recovering his stolen, customized Corvette.
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E.
Corsa Rosa
Corsa Rosa is the Italian nickname for the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's three Grand Tours and a premier multi-stage road race held annually in Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | boxing ring nickname ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Detroit ⓘ |
| associatedWithEraOfBoxing | 1980s boxing era ⓘ |
| associatedWithFighterStyle | offensive boxer-puncher ⓘ |
| associatedWithRival |
Marvin Hagler
ⓘ
Roberto Durán ⓘ Sugar Ray Leonard ⓘ Wilfred Benítez ⓘ |
| associatedWithTitle |
world light heavyweight champion
ⓘ
world light middleweight champion ⓘ world middleweight champion ⓘ world super middleweight champion ⓘ world welterweight champion ⓘ |
| bearerAlsoKnownAs |
The Hitman
ⓘ
Tommy Hearns ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas Hearns
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| bearerBirthPlace |
Detroit, Michigan, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
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| bearerFullName | Thomas Hearns ⓘ |
| bearerNationality | American ⓘ |
| countryOfAssociation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| era | late 20th century ⓘ |
| genderOfBearer | male ⓘ |
| nicknameOf | Thomas Hearns ⓘ |
| notableFor |
aggressive fighting style
ⓘ
height ⓘ punching power ⓘ |
| refersTo | Thomas Hearns ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| usedInPromotion | boxing match marketing ⓘ |
| usedInWeightClass |
light heavyweight
ⓘ
light middleweight ⓘ middleweight ⓘ super middleweight ⓘ welterweight ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Motor City Cobra Description of subject: Motor City Cobra is the ring nickname of Thomas Hearns, the legendary Detroit-born boxing champion known for his height, power, and aggressive fighting style across multiple weight classes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.