Oliver McCall
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Oliver McCall is an American former professional boxer best known for winning the WBC heavyweight title by upsetting Lennox Lewis and for his highly publicized emotional breakdown during a rematch.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oliver McCall canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6611868 — 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: Oliver McCall Context triple: [Frank Bruno, fought, Oliver McCall]
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A.
Anthony Lewis Bellew
Anthony Lewis "Tony" Bellew is a retired British professional boxer from Liverpool who held the WBC cruiserweight world title and later became a boxing pundit and occasional actor.
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B.
John Fury
John Fury is a novel by Jack Dunphy that explores the struggles and inner life of a working-class man in early 20th-century America.
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C.
Johny Hendricks
Johny Hendricks is a retired American mixed martial artist and former UFC Welterweight Champion known for his powerful wrestling and knockout punching power.
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D.
Exodus Tyson
Exodus Tyson was the young daughter of former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, whose tragic accidental death in 2009 drew widespread public sympathy.
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E.
Richard Tyson
Richard Tyson is an American actor best known for playing the menacing villain Cullen Crisp in the action-comedy film "Kindergarten Cop."
- 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: Oliver McCall Target entity description: Oliver McCall is an American former professional boxer best known for winning the WBC heavyweight title by upsetting Lennox Lewis and for his highly publicized emotional breakdown during a rematch.
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A.
Anthony Lewis Bellew
Anthony Lewis "Tony" Bellew is a retired British professional boxer from Liverpool who held the WBC cruiserweight world title and later became a boxing pundit and occasional actor.
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B.
John Fury
John Fury is a novel by Jack Dunphy that explores the struggles and inner life of a working-class man in early 20th-century America.
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C.
Johny Hendricks
Johny Hendricks is a retired American mixed martial artist and former UFC Welterweight Champion known for his powerful wrestling and knockout punching power.
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D.
Exodus Tyson
Exodus Tyson was the young daughter of former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, whose tragic accidental death in 2009 drew widespread public sympathy.
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E.
Richard Tyson
Richard Tyson is an American actor best known for playing the menacing villain Cullen Crisp in the action-comedy film "Kindergarten Cop."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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professional boxer ⓘ |
| boxingStyle | orthodox stance ⓘ |
| careerStatus | retired ⓘ |
| competedIn | world heavyweight championship bouts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965-04-21 ⓘ |
| defeated | Lennox Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defeatedInBoutType | world heavyweight title fight ⓘ |
| division | heavyweight division ⓘ |
| Elijah McCall | instanceOf:professional boxer ⓘ |
| era |
early 21st century boxing
ⓘ
late 20th century boxing ⓘ |
| familyName | McCall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fought |
Acelino Freitas
NERFINISHED
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Bruce Seldon NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Bruno NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Akinwande NERFINISHED ⓘ Juan Carlos Gómez NERFINISHED ⓘ Larry Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Tyson NERFINISHED ⓘ Oleg Maskaev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Oliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadRematchWith | Lennox Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Elijah McCall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isBestKnownFor |
emotional breakdown during rematch with Lennox Lewis
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upsetting Lennox Lewis to win the WBC heavyweight title ⓘ |
| knownFor |
durability and strong chin
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unusual in-ring behavior in later career ⓘ |
| lostTo | Lennox Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Oliver McCall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nickname | The Atomic Bull NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | emotional breakdown in ring during rematch with Lennox Lewis ⓘ |
| notableTitle | former WBC heavyweight champion ⓘ |
| occupation | boxer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| professionalStatus | former professional boxer ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| titleOrganization | World Boxing Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| turnedProfessionalIn | 1985 ⓘ |
| weightClass | heavyweight ⓘ |
| wonTitle | WBC heavyweight title NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Oliver McCall Description of subject: Oliver McCall is an American former professional boxer best known for winning the WBC heavyweight title by upsetting Lennox Lewis and for his highly publicized emotional breakdown during a rematch.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.