Kamaru Usman
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Kamaru Usman is a Nigerian-American mixed martial artist renowned for his dominant wrestling-based style and lengthy reign as UFC welterweight champion.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kamaru Usman canonical | 8 |
| Kamaru Usman (UFC 278) | 1 |
| Kamaru Usman (UFC 286) | 1 |
| Mohammed Usman is also a mixed martial artist | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1188484 — 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: Kamaru Usman Context triple: [UFC Welterweight division, hasNotableChampion, Kamaru Usman]
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A.
Gunnar Nelson
Gunnar Nelson is an Icelandic mixed martial artist and Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist known for his grappling-focused fighting style in the UFC.
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B.
Tyron Woodley
Tyron Woodley is an American mixed martial artist and former UFC Welterweight Champion known for his explosive power and wrestling-based fighting style.
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C.
Marciano
Marciano is a masculine given name and surname of Italian and Spanish origin, most famously associated with heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano.
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D.
Mikey Liddell
Mikey Liddell is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood projects, including the science fiction action movie "Terminator Salvation."
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E.
Georges St-Pierre
Georges St-Pierre is a Canadian mixed martial artist widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters in MMA history, known for his dominant championship reigns and well-rounded skill set.
- 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: Kamaru Usman Target entity description: Kamaru Usman is a Nigerian-American mixed martial artist renowned for his dominant wrestling-based style and lengthy reign as UFC welterweight champion.
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A.
Gunnar Nelson
Gunnar Nelson is an Icelandic mixed martial artist and Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist known for his grappling-focused fighting style in the UFC.
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B.
Tyron Woodley
Tyron Woodley is an American mixed martial artist and former UFC Welterweight Champion known for his explosive power and wrestling-based fighting style.
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C.
Marciano
Marciano is a masculine given name and surname of Italian and Spanish origin, most famously associated with heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano.
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D.
Mikey Liddell
Mikey Liddell is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood projects, including the science fiction action movie "Terminator Salvation."
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E.
Georges St-Pierre
Georges St-Pierre is a Canadian mixed martial artist widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters in MMA history, known for his dominant championship reigns and well-rounded skill set.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UFC fighter
ⓘ
human ⓘ mixed martial artist ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1987-05-11 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Auchi
ⓘ
surface form:
Auchi, Edo State, Nigeria
|
| championshipReign | UFC welterweight champion from 2019 to 2022 ⓘ |
| collegeTeam | University of Nebraska at Kearney wrestling team ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Nigeria
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateWonTitle | 2019-03-02 ⓘ |
| division |
UFC Middleweight Championship
ⓘ
surface form:
UFC Middleweight Division
UFC Welterweight division ⓘ
surface form:
UFC Welterweight Division
|
| employer | Ultimate Fighting Championship ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Hausa people ⓘ |
| eventWonTitle | UFC 235 ⓘ |
| familyName | Usman ⓘ |
| fightingOutOf |
Dallas, Texas
ⓘ
surface form:
Dallas, Texas, United States
|
| fightingStyle | wrestling ⓘ |
| fullName | Kamarudeen Usman ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Kamarudeen ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Mohammed Usman ⓘ |
| highSchoolSport | wrestling ⓘ |
| knownFor |
elite wrestling and pressure fighting
ⓘ
lengthy reign as UFC welterweight champion ⓘ |
| lostTitleAgainst | Leon Edwards ⓘ |
| methodOfFirstUFCWelterweightTitleWin | unanimous decision ⓘ |
| nationality | Nigerian-American ⓘ |
| NCAAWrestlingAchievement |
NCAA Division II national champion
ⓘ
three-time NCAA Division II All-American ⓘ |
| nickname | The Nigerian Nightmare ⓘ |
| occupation |
mixed martial artist
ⓘ
professional athlete ⓘ |
| promotionDebut |
The Ultimate Fighter
ⓘ
surface form:
The Ultimate Fighter 21 (UFC)
|
| relative | Mohammed Usman ⓘ |
| relativeOccupation |
Kamaru Usman
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Mohammed Usman is also a mixed martial artist
|
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sport | mixed martial arts ⓘ |
| styleDescription | dominant wrestling-based style ⓘ |
| team |
Kill Cliff FC
ⓘ
Sanford MMA ⓘ |
| titleHeld |
UFC Welterweight division
ⓘ
surface form:
UFC Welterweight Championship
|
| trainedIn |
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
ⓘ
freestyle wrestling ⓘ striking ⓘ |
| weightClass |
middleweight
ⓘ
welterweight ⓘ |
| wonTitleAgainst | Tyron Woodley ⓘ |
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: Kamaru Usman Description of subject: Kamaru Usman is a Nigerian-American mixed martial artist renowned for his dominant wrestling-based style and lengthy reign as UFC welterweight champion.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mohammed Usman is also a mixed martial artist
this entity surface form:
Kamaru Usman (UFC 278)
this entity surface form:
Kamaru Usman (UFC 286)