Johnny Bratton
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Johnny Bratton was an American professional welterweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s who briefly held the world title and was known for facing many of the era’s top fighters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Johnny Bratton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7958069 — 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: Johnny Bratton Context triple: [Kid Gavilán, notableOpponent, Johnny Bratton]
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A.
Phil Judd
Phil Judd is a New Zealand musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of Split Enz and later the new wave band The Swingers.
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B.
Ben Durrant
Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
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C.
Johnny Brazier
Johnny Brazier was an American stock car racer best known as a member of the famed Alabama Gang, a group of influential drivers in Southern short-track and NASCAR racing.
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D.
Tony Cottrell
Tony Cottrell, better known by his stage name Hi-Tek, is an American hip hop producer and DJ recognized for his soulful, sample-based beats and collaborations with artists like Talib Kweli and Mos Def.
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E.
Stan Cullimore
Stan Cullimore is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the 1980s indie pop band The Housemartins.
- 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: Johnny Bratton Target entity description: Johnny Bratton was an American professional welterweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s who briefly held the world title and was known for facing many of the era’s top fighters.
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A.
Phil Judd
Phil Judd is a New Zealand musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of Split Enz and later the new wave band The Swingers.
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B.
Ben Durrant
Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
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C.
Johnny Brazier
Johnny Brazier was an American stock car racer best known as a member of the famed Alabama Gang, a group of influential drivers in Southern short-track and NASCAR racing.
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D.
Tony Cottrell
Tony Cottrell, better known by his stage name Hi-Tek, is an American hip hop producer and DJ recognized for his soulful, sample-based beats and collaborations with artists like Talib Kweli and Mos Def.
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E.
Stan Cullimore
Stan Cullimore is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the 1980s indie pop band The Housemartins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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professional boxer ⓘ welterweight boxer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndTime | 1950s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartTime | 1940s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | professional sports ⓘ |
| genre | professional boxing ⓘ |
| givenName | Johnny ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
fought high-level competition
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mid-20th-century boxing style ⓘ |
| movement | American boxing of the mid-20th century ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | briefly held the world welterweight title ⓘ |
| notableFor |
competing in the 1940s and 1950s
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facing many top fighters of his era ⓘ |
| occupation | boxer ⓘ |
| participantIn | world welterweight title bouts ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of American boxing
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history of welterweight boxing ⓘ |
| positionHeld | world welterweight boxing champion ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| weightClass | welterweight ⓘ |
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: Johnny Bratton Description of subject: Johnny Bratton was an American professional welterweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s who briefly held the world title and was known for facing many of the era’s top fighters.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.