IBF
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IBF is one of the major world governing bodies that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards championship titles across multiple weight divisions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IBF canonical | 11 |
| IBF Championships Committee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7008358 — 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: IBF Context triple: [International Boxing Federation, abbreviation, IBF]
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IBFAN
IBFAN is a global network of organizations that advocates for breastfeeding and monitors and campaigns against unethical marketing of breastmilk substitutes and baby foods.
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B.
IKF
IKF is the International Kabaddi Federation, the global governing body responsible for overseeing and promoting the sport of kabaddi worldwide.
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C.
IBAF
IBAF (International Baseball Federation) was the former global governing body responsible for overseeing international baseball competitions and promoting the sport worldwide.
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D.
IBA
IBA is the International Bar Association, a leading global organization of legal professionals and bar associations that works to shape the future of the legal profession and uphold the rule of law worldwide.
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E.
IBA
IBA is the IATA airport code for Ibadan Airport, a domestic airport serving the city of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria.
- 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: IBF Target entity description: IBF is one of the major world governing bodies that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards championship titles across multiple weight divisions.
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A.
IBFAN
IBFAN is a global network of organizations that advocates for breastfeeding and monitors and campaigns against unethical marketing of breastmilk substitutes and baby foods.
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B.
IKF
IKF is the International Kabaddi Federation, the global governing body responsible for overseeing and promoting the sport of kabaddi worldwide.
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C.
IBAF
IBAF (International Baseball Federation) was the former global governing body responsible for overseeing international baseball competitions and promoting the sport worldwide.
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D.
IBA
IBA is the International Bar Association, a leading global organization of legal professionals and bar associations that works to shape the future of the legal profession and uphold the rule of law worldwide.
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E.
IBA
IBA is the IATA airport code for Ibadan Airport, a domestic airport serving the city of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
boxing sanctioning body
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sports governing body ⓘ |
| activity |
approving title unification bouts
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enforcing championship rules ⓘ issuing boxer rankings ⓘ ordering mandatory challengers ⓘ sanctioning title eliminator bouts ⓘ |
| awardsTitleIn |
bantamweight division
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cruiserweight division ⓘ featherweight division ⓘ flyweight division ⓘ heavyweight division ⓘ light flyweight division ⓘ light heavyweight division ⓘ lightweight division ⓘ middleweight division ⓘ minimumweight division ⓘ super bantamweight division ⓘ super featherweight division ⓘ super flyweight division ⓘ super lightweight division NERFINISHED ⓘ super middleweight division ⓘ super welterweight division ⓘ welterweight division ⓘ |
| classification |
major world boxing organization
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world governing body in boxing ⓘ |
| competitionType |
regional title fights
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world title fights ⓘ |
| fullName | International Boxing Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicScope | international ⓘ |
| governs |
intercontinental titles
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regional titles ⓘ world championship titles ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | IBF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRankingSystem | world rankings by weight class ⓘ |
| role |
approves officials for title fights
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awards world championship titles ⓘ mandates title defenses ⓘ ranks professional boxers ⓘ regulates championship bouts ⓘ sanctions professional boxing matches ⓘ sets rules for championship contests ⓘ |
| scope | professional boxing ⓘ |
| sector |
combat sports
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professional sports governance ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| titleType |
interim world champion
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regional champion ⓘ world champion ⓘ |
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: IBF Description of subject: IBF is one of the major world governing bodies that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards championship titles across multiple weight divisions.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
IBF Championships Committee
subject surface form:
Julio César Chávez