Nick Diaz
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Nick Diaz is an American mixed martial artist known for his high-volume boxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu skills, and cult-favorite status in organizations like the UFC and Strikeforce.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6107340 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nick Diaz Context triple: [Georges St-Pierre, notableVictoryOver, Nick Diaz]
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A.
Chuck Liddell
Chuck Liddell is a retired American mixed martial artist and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion widely regarded as one of the sport’s early superstars and most iconic knockout artists.
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B.
Fabricio Werdum
Fabricio Werdum is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC heavyweight champion renowned for his elite Brazilian jiu-jitsu and victories over several top heavyweights.
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C.
Jorge Masvidal
Jorge Masvidal is an American mixed martial artist known for his long UFC career, striking skills, and record-setting five-second knockout of Ben Askren.
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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.
Wanderlei Silva
Wanderlei Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist famed for his aggressive striking style and legendary run in PRIDE Fighting Championships.
- 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: Nick Diaz Target entity description: Nick Diaz is an American mixed martial artist known for his high-volume boxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu skills, and cult-favorite status in organizations like the UFC and Strikeforce.
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A.
Chuck Liddell
Chuck Liddell is a retired American mixed martial artist and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion widely regarded as one of the sport’s early superstars and most iconic knockout artists.
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B.
Fabricio Werdum
Fabricio Werdum is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC heavyweight champion renowned for his elite Brazilian jiu-jitsu and victories over several top heavyweights.
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C.
Jorge Masvidal
Jorge Masvidal is an American mixed martial artist known for his long UFC career, striking skills, and record-setting five-second knockout of Ben Askren.
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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.
Wanderlei Silva
Wanderlei Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist famed for his aggressive striking style and legendary run in PRIDE Fighting Championships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mixed martial artist ⓘ |
| birthName | Nicholas Robert Diaz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackBeltIn | Brazilian jiu-jitsu ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1983-08-02 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mexican American ⓘ |
| familyName | Diaz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fightingOutOf | Stockton, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foughtInDivision |
UFC middleweight division
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UFC welterweight division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Nicholas ⓘ |
| hasRank | black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Cesar Gracie ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Nate Diaz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | 185 cm ⓘ |
| heldTitle |
IFL Welterweight Champion
NERFINISHED
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Strikeforce Welterweight Champion NERFINISHED ⓘ WEC Welterweight Champion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Brazilian jiu-jitsu skills
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cult-favorite status among MMA fans ⓘ high-volume boxing style ⓘ |
| madeUFCDebut | 2003 ⓘ |
| name | Nick Diaz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableVictoryOver |
B.J. Penn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frank Shamrock NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Daley NERFINISHED ⓘ Robbie Lawler NERFINISHED ⓘ Takanori Gomi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner
ⓘ
mixed martial artist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Stockton, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| promotion |
EliteXC
NERFINISHED
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PRIDE Fighting Championships NERFINISHED ⓘ Strikeforce NERFINISHED ⓘ Ultimate Fighting Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ WEC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Stockton, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | mixed martial arts ⓘ |
| stance | southpaw ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
durability
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high striking volume ⓘ pressure fighting ⓘ taunting opponents ⓘ |
| team | Cesar Gracie Jiu-Jitsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trainer | Cesar Gracie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weightClass |
middleweight
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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: Nick Diaz Description of subject: Nick Diaz is an American mixed martial artist known for his high-volume boxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu skills, and cult-favorite status in organizations like the UFC and Strikeforce.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nate Diaz
this entity surface form:
Nate Diaz