Ultimate Fighting Championship
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The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the world’s leading mixed martial arts promotion, organizing high-profile fights across multiple weight classes featuring top fighters from around the globe.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ultimate Fighting Championship canonical | 74 |
| UFC | 34 |
| UFC (former official outfitter) | 1 |
| UFC Fight Night | 1 |
| UFC Heavyweight Champion | 1 |
| UFC events | 1 |
| UFC numbered events | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T199851 — 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: Ultimate Fighting Championship Context triple: [Gunnar Nelson, employer, Ultimate Fighting Championship]
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A.
Conference of Champions
The "Conference of Champions" is a nickname highlighting the Pac-12 Conference’s historic dominance and record number of NCAA team championships across multiple collegiate sports.
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B.
WHA
WHA is the commonly used abbreviation for the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization.
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C.
AFC
The AFC (American Football Conference) is one of the two conferences that make up the National Football League, comprising 16 teams that compete for a spot in the Super Bowl.
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D.
World’s Championship Series
The World’s Championship Series, better known as the Temple Cup, was a late 19th-century postseason baseball series played between the National League’s first- and second-place teams.
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E.
National Football League
The National Football League is the premier professional American football league in the United States, consisting of 32 teams that compete annually for the Super Bowl championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Ultimate Fighting Championship Target entity description: The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the world’s leading mixed martial arts promotion, organizing high-profile fights across multiple weight classes featuring top fighters from around the globe.
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A.
Conference of Champions
The "Conference of Champions" is a nickname highlighting the Pac-12 Conference’s historic dominance and record number of NCAA team championships across multiple collegiate sports.
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B.
WHA
WHA is the commonly used abbreviation for the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization.
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C.
AFC
The AFC (American Football Conference) is one of the two conferences that make up the National Football League, comprising 16 teams that compete for a spot in the Super Bowl.
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D.
World’s Championship Series
The World’s Championship Series, better known as the Temple Cup, was a late 19th-century postseason baseball series played between the National League’s first- and second-place teams.
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E.
National Football League
The National Football League is the premier professional American football league in the United States, consisting of 32 teams that compete annually for the Super Bowl championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
mixed martial arts promotion ⓘ sports organization ⓘ |
| broadcastOn |
ESPN
ⓘ
ESPN+ (streaming service) ⓘ
surface form:
ESPN+
pay-per-view ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| developsFrom | no-holds-barred fighting tournaments ⓘ |
| founded | 1993 ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Art Davie
ⓘ
Bob Meyrowitz ⓘ Campbell McLaren ⓘ David Isaacs ⓘ John Milius ⓘ Rorion Gracie ⓘ Semaphore Entertainment Group ⓘ |
| hasEventSeries |
The Ultimate Fighter Finale
ⓘ
Ultimate Fighting Championship self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
UFC Fight Night
Ultimate Fighting Championship self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
UFC numbered events
|
| hasGlobalReach | true ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Las Vegas, Nevada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| inauguralEvent | UFC 1 ⓘ |
| inauguralEventDate | 1993-11-12 ⓘ |
| inauguralEventLocation | Denver, Colorado ⓘ |
| keyPerson | Dana White ⓘ |
| marketedAs | world's leading mixed martial arts promotion ⓘ |
| officialWebsite | https://www.ufc.com ⓘ |
| organizes | world championship title fights ⓘ |
| ownedBy | TKO Group Holdings ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | TKO Group Holdings ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Dana White
ⓘ
surface form:
Dana White – CEO
Dana White ⓘ
surface form:
Dana White – President
|
| previousOwner |
Endeavor Group Holdings
ⓘ
Zuffa LLC ⓘ |
| shortName |
Ultimate Fighting Championship
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
UFC
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| sport | mixed martial arts ⓘ |
| usesRuleSet | Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts ⓘ |
| weightClass |
bantamweight
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featherweight ⓘ flyweight ⓘ heavyweight ⓘ light heavyweight ⓘ lightweight ⓘ middleweight ⓘ welterweight ⓘ women's bantamweight ⓘ women's featherweight ⓘ women's flyweight ⓘ women's strawweight ⓘ |
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: Ultimate Fighting Championship Description of subject: The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the world’s leading mixed martial arts promotion, organizing high-profile fights across multiple weight classes featuring top fighters from around the globe.
Referenced by (113)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
UFC
this entity surface form:
UFC