Steve Cruz
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Steve Cruz is a former Mexican professional boxer best known for upsetting Barry McGuigan to win the WBA featherweight world title in 1986.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steve Cruz canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6849576 — 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: Steve Cruz Context triple: [Barry McGuigan, lostWorldTitleAgainst, Steve Cruz]
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A.
Steve Morales
Steve Morales is a music producer known for his work in pop and dance genres, collaborating with various mainstream artists.
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B.
Marc Molinaro
Marc Molinaro is an American Republican politician from New York who has served in various local and state offices, including as Dutchess County Executive and later as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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C.
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan is an American foreign policy expert, author, and editor who serves as editor-in-chief of the influential journal Foreign Affairs.
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D.
Kevin Vann
Kevin Vann is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Orange in California.
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E.
John St. Polis
John St. Polis was an American stage and film actor active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles during the silent and early sound eras.
- 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: Steve Cruz Target entity description: Steve Cruz is a former Mexican professional boxer best known for upsetting Barry McGuigan to win the WBA featherweight world title in 1986.
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A.
Steve Morales
Steve Morales is a music producer known for his work in pop and dance genres, collaborating with various mainstream artists.
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B.
Marc Molinaro
Marc Molinaro is an American Republican politician from New York who has served in various local and state offices, including as Dutchess County Executive and later as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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C.
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan is an American foreign policy expert, author, and editor who serves as editor-in-chief of the influential journal Foreign Affairs.
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D.
Kevin Vann
Kevin Vann is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Orange in California.
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E.
John St. Polis
John St. Polis was an American stage and film actor active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles during the silent and early sound eras.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mexican boxer
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featherweight boxer ⓘ human ⓘ professional boxer ⓘ |
| boxingStance | orthodox ⓘ |
| competitionClass | professional ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Mexico ⓘ |
| dateOfTitleWin | 1986 ⓘ |
| familyName | Cruz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerTitleHolder | WBA featherweight title ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Steve NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRival | Barry McGuigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Mexican ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | winning the WBA featherweight world title ⓘ |
| notableFor | defeating Barry McGuigan in 1986 ⓘ |
| occupation | professional boxer ⓘ |
| opponentDefeatedForTitle | Barry McGuigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | world championship boxing matches ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| status | retired boxer ⓘ |
| titleHeld | WBA featherweight title NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weightClass | featherweight ⓘ |
| worldChampionOf | WBA featherweight division 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: Steve Cruz Description of subject: Steve Cruz is a former Mexican professional boxer best known for upsetting Barry McGuigan to win the WBA featherweight world title in 1986.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.