Bash at the Beach
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Bash at the Beach was a major annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling, best known for hosting pivotal moments in the Monday Night Wars era, including Hulk Hogan’s infamous heel turn and the formation of the New World Order (nWo).
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bash at the Beach canonical | 1 |
| Bash at the Beach 1996 | 1 |
| WCW Bash at the Beach | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6889103 — 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)
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Target entity: Bash at the Beach Context triple: [World Championship Wrestling, notableEvent, Bash at the Beach]
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A.
Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal
The Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal is an annual multi-competitor match in WWE held at WrestleMania to honor the legacy of legendary wrestler André the Giant.
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World Victory Road
World Victory Road was a Japanese mixed martial arts promotion best known for organizing the Sengoku Raiden Championship events in the late 2000s.
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Ring of Honor
Ring of Honor is an American professional wrestling promotion known for its emphasis on in-ring athleticism and technical wrestling, and for helping launch the careers of many top stars in the industry.
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SummerSlam
SummerSlam is one of WWE's biggest annual pay-per-view events, traditionally held in late summer and featuring high-profile championship matches and major storylines.
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E.
Survivor Series
Survivor Series is one of WWE’s major annual pay-per-view events, traditionally featuring elimination tag team matches and significant championship bouts.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Bash at the Beach Target entity description: Bash at the Beach was a major annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling, best known for hosting pivotal moments in the Monday Night Wars era, including Hulk Hogan’s infamous heel turn and the formation of the New World Order (nWo).
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A.
Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal
The Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal is an annual multi-competitor match in WWE held at WrestleMania to honor the legacy of legendary wrestler André the Giant.
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B.
World Victory Road
World Victory Road was a Japanese mixed martial arts promotion best known for organizing the Sengoku Raiden Championship events in the late 2000s.
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C.
Ring of Honor
Ring of Honor is an American professional wrestling promotion known for its emphasis on in-ring athleticism and technical wrestling, and for helping launch the careers of many top stars in the industry.
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D.
SummerSlam
SummerSlam is one of WWE's biggest annual pay-per-view events, traditionally held in late summer and featuring high-profile championship matches and major storylines.
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E.
Survivor Series
Survivor Series is one of WWE’s major annual pay-per-view events, traditionally featuring elimination tag team matches and significant championship bouts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World Championship Wrestling event
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professional wrestling pay-per-view event ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | WCW Bash at the Beach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Eric Bischoff
NERFINISHED
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Hulk Hogan NERFINISHED ⓘ New World Order (nWo) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | pay-per-view television ⓘ |
| city | Daytona Beach, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| date | 1996-07-07 ⓘ |
| endedBecause | WCW purchase by World Wrestling Federation in 2001 ⓘ |
| featuredWrestler |
Hulk Hogan
NERFINISHED
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Kevin Nash NERFINISHED ⓘ Lex Luger NERFINISHED ⓘ Randy Savage NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Sting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstEventDate | 1994-07-17 ⓘ |
| format | pay-per-view ⓘ |
| genre | professional wrestling ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lastEventDate | 2000-07-09 ⓘ |
| location | Ocean Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainEvent | The Outsiders vs Team WCW six-man tag match ⓘ |
| mainEventOf | Bash at the Beach 1996 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Hulk Hogan heel turn
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Hulk Hogan joining Scott Hall and Kevin Nash ⓘ formation of the New World Order ⓘ formation of the New World Order stable ⓘ role in the Monday Night Wars ⓘ |
| numberOfEvents | 7 ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Turner Broadcasting (via WCW) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Monday Night Wars era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Bash at the Beach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| promotedBy | World Championship Wrestling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recurringEndYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| recurringStartYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| signatureTheme | beach and summer motif ⓘ |
| status | defunct pay-per-view series ⓘ |
| storylineImpact | major turning point in WCW vs WWF rivalry ⓘ |
| successorEventNameUsedBy | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typicalMonthHeld | July ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Bash at the Beach Description of subject: Bash at the Beach was a major annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling, best known for hosting pivotal moments in the Monday Night Wars era, including Hulk Hogan’s infamous heel turn and the formation of the New World Order (nWo).
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
WCW Bash at the Beach
this entity surface form:
Bash at the Beach 1996