Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira
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Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and legendary heavyweight known for his elite Brazilian jiu-jitsu, resilience, and championship runs in PRIDE and the UFC.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira canonical | 4 |
| Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira | 3 |
| Minotauro Nogueira | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13212720 — 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: Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira Context triple: [UFC 81, headliner, Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira]
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A.
João Nogueira
João Nogueira is a musician known for performing as a touring member with the psychedelic rock duo The Claypool Lennon Delirium.
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B.
Marcelo Vieira
Marcelo Vieira is a Brazilian professional footballer best known as an attacking left-back for Real Madrid and the Brazil national team, widely regarded as one of the greatest full-backs of his generation.
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C.
Artur Nogueira
Artur Nogueira is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, known for its agricultural activities and small-town character within the Campinas metropolitan region.
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D.
Wanderlei Silva
Wanderlei Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist famed for his aggressive striking style and legendary run in PRIDE Fighting Championships.
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E.
Anderson Silva
Anderson Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters in UFC history, known especially for his long reign as middleweight champion.
- 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: Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira Target entity description: Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and legendary heavyweight known for his elite Brazilian jiu-jitsu, resilience, and championship runs in PRIDE and the UFC.
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A.
João Nogueira
João Nogueira is a musician known for performing as a touring member with the psychedelic rock duo The Claypool Lennon Delirium.
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B.
Marcelo Vieira
Marcelo Vieira is a Brazilian professional footballer best known as an attacking left-back for Real Madrid and the Brazil national team, widely regarded as one of the greatest full-backs of his generation.
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C.
Artur Nogueira
Artur Nogueira is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, known for its agricultural activities and small-town character within the Campinas metropolitan region.
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D.
Wanderlei Silva
Wanderlei Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist famed for his aggressive striking style and legendary run in PRIDE Fighting Championships.
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E.
Anderson Silva
Anderson Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters in UFC history, known especially for his long reign as middleweight champion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner
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heavyweight fighter ⓘ human ⓘ mixed martial artist ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Big Nog
NERFINISHED
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Minotauro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| careerStatus | retired ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Brazil ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1976-06-02 ⓘ |
| defeated |
Bob Sapp
NERFINISHED
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Dan Henderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Fabricio Werdum NERFINISHED ⓘ Heath Herring NERFINISHED ⓘ Josh Barnett NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Coleman NERFINISHED ⓘ Mirko Cro Cop NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Sylvia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fightingOutOf | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hallOfFame | UFC Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameCategory | Pioneer Wing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Antônio Rogério Nogueira NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownAsLegend | legendary heavyweight in MMA ⓘ |
| lostTo |
Cain Velasquez
NERFINISHED
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Fedor Emelianenko NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Mir NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| martialArt |
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
boxing ⓘ |
| nationality | Brazilian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
come-from-behind submission victories
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durability and resilience ⓘ |
| organization |
PRIDE Fighting Championships
NERFINISHED
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Ultimate Fighting Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| promotionRole | UFC ambassador in Brazil ⓘ |
| residence | Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| siblingRelationship | twin brother of Antônio Rogério Nogueira ⓘ |
| sport | mixed martial arts ⓘ |
| styleStrength |
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
NERFINISHED
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submission grappling ⓘ |
| team |
Brazilian Top Team
NERFINISHED
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Team Nogueira NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleHeld |
Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion
NERFINISHED
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PRIDE Heavyweight Champion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UFCDebutOpponent | Heath Herring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weightClass | heavyweight ⓘ |
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: Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira Description of subject: Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and legendary heavyweight known for his elite Brazilian jiu-jitsu, resilience, and championship runs in PRIDE and the UFC.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
this entity surface form:
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
this entity surface form:
Minotauro Nogueira
this entity surface form:
Minotauro Nogueira
this entity surface form:
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira