Extreme Championship Wrestling
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Extreme Championship Wrestling was a 1990s American professional wrestling promotion known for its hardcore, ultraviolent style and influential cult following that helped shape the “extreme” era of wrestling.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Extreme Championship Wrestling canonical | 5 |
| ECW | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6889105 — 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: Extreme Championship Wrestling Context triple: [World Championship Wrestling, rival, Extreme Championship Wrestling]
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A.
World Championship Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling was a major American professional wrestling promotion that rose to prominence in the 1990s as the primary rival to the World Wrestling Federation, featuring stars like Hulk Hogan, Sting, and Ric Flair.
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B.
Impact Wrestling
Impact Wrestling is a professional wrestling television program and promotion known for its high-flying action, alternative style, and role as a major U.S. competitor to WWE.
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C.
CZW
CZW (Combat Zone Wrestling) is an American independent wrestling promotion known for its ultraviolent, hardcore style and influential role in the careers of many notable wrestlers.
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D.
Heartland Wrestling Association
Heartland Wrestling Association is an American independent professional wrestling promotion and former developmental territory known for training and showcasing future major wrestling stars.
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E.
IWA Mid-South
IWA Mid-South is an American independent professional wrestling promotion known for its influential role in developing future stars and its often hardcore, high-intensity style.
- 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: Extreme Championship Wrestling Target entity description: Extreme Championship Wrestling was a 1990s American professional wrestling promotion known for its hardcore, ultraviolent style and influential cult following that helped shape the “extreme” era of wrestling.
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A.
World Championship Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling was a major American professional wrestling promotion that rose to prominence in the 1990s as the primary rival to the World Wrestling Federation, featuring stars like Hulk Hogan, Sting, and Ric Flair.
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B.
Impact Wrestling
Impact Wrestling is a professional wrestling television program and promotion known for its high-flying action, alternative style, and role as a major U.S. competitor to WWE.
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C.
CZW
CZW (Combat Zone Wrestling) is an American independent wrestling promotion known for its ultraviolent, hardcore style and influential role in the careers of many notable wrestlers.
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D.
Heartland Wrestling Association
Heartland Wrestling Association is an American independent professional wrestling promotion and former developmental territory known for training and showcasing future major wrestling stars.
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E.
IWA Mid-South
IWA Mid-South is an American independent professional wrestling promotion known for its influential role in developing future stars and its often hardcore, high-intensity style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct organization
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professional wrestling promotion ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | World Wrestling Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Paul E. Dangerously’s ECW NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastOn |
ECW Hardcore TV
NERFINISHED
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pay-per-view ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| creativeDirector | Paul Heyman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolved | 2001 ⓘ |
| fanBase | cult following ⓘ |
| featuredWrestler |
Dudley Boyz
NERFINISHED
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Lance Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ Mick Foley NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Awesome NERFINISHED ⓘ New Jack NERFINISHED ⓘ Raven NERFINISHED ⓘ Rob Van Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ Sabu NERFINISHED ⓘ Shane Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ Taz NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry Funk NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sandman NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Dreamer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPayPerViewEvent | Barely Legal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPayPerViewEventDate | 1997 ⓘ |
| formerName | Eastern Championship Wrestling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Tod Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | hardcore wrestling ⓘ |
| inception | 1992 ⓘ |
| influenced |
World Championship Wrestling hardcore division
NERFINISHED
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World Wrestling Federation Attitude Era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| intellectualPropertyOwner | WWE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| keyPerson | Paul Heyman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
adult-oriented storylines and language
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hardcore matches involving tables, ladders, and chairs ⓘ influential cult following ⓘ use of barbed wire and weapons ⓘ |
| legacy | pioneered the “extreme” era of professional wrestling ⓘ |
| marketPosition | independent alternative to WWF and WCW ⓘ |
| primaryVenue |
2300 Arena
NERFINISHED
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ECW Arena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| promotedChampionship |
ECW World Heavyweight Championship
NERFINISHED
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ECW World Tag Team Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ ECW World Television Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ FTW Heavyweight Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | ECW NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | ultraviolent wrestling ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1990s wrestling boom ⓘ |
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: Extreme Championship Wrestling Description of subject: Extreme Championship Wrestling was a 1990s American professional wrestling promotion known for its hardcore, ultraviolent style and influential cult following that helped shape the “extreme” era of wrestling.
Referenced by (8)
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ECW
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ECW
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