Floyd Patterson
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Floyd Patterson was an American professional boxer who became the youngest world heavyweight champion in history at the time and later regained the title, known for his speed, skill, and gentlemanly demeanor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Floyd Patterson canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8085390 — 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: Floyd Patterson Context triple: [Patterson, hasNotableBearer, Floyd Patterson]
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A.
Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano was an American heavyweight boxing champion renowned for retiring undefeated with a perfect professional record.
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B.
Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Robinson was an American professional boxer widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters in history, celebrated for his exceptional speed, power, and technical skill across multiple weight classes.
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C.
Jersey Joe Walcott
Jersey Joe Walcott was an American heavyweight boxing champion known for his crafty, unorthodox style and late-career success in the 1940s and early 1950s.
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D.
Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier was an American heavyweight boxing champion renowned for his relentless fighting style and his legendary trilogy of bouts with Muhammad Ali.
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E.
Archie Moore
Archie Moore was an American professional boxer renowned as one of the greatest light heavyweight champions in history, noted for his exceptional longevity and knockout power.
- 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Floyd Patterson Target entity description: Floyd Patterson was an American professional boxer who became the youngest world heavyweight champion in history at the time and later regained the title, known for his speed, skill, and gentlemanly demeanor.
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A.
Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano was an American heavyweight boxing champion renowned for retiring undefeated with a perfect professional record.
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B.
Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Robinson was an American professional boxer widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters in history, celebrated for his exceptional speed, power, and technical skill across multiple weight classes.
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C.
Jersey Joe Walcott
Jersey Joe Walcott was an American heavyweight boxing champion known for his crafty, unorthodox style and late-career success in the 1940s and early 1950s.
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D.
Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier was an American heavyweight boxing champion renowned for his relentless fighting style and his legendary trilogy of bouts with Muhammad Ali.
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E.
Archie Moore
Archie Moore was an American professional boxer renowned as one of the greatest light heavyweight champions in history, noted for his exceptional longevity and knockout power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
professional boxer ⓘ world heavyweight boxing champion ⓘ |
| amateurAchievement | 1952 Olympic gold medal in middleweight boxing ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | Alzheimer's disease NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competedIn | 1952 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1935-01-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-05-11 ⓘ |
| draws | 1 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Patterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fought |
George Chuvalo
NERFINISHED
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Ingemar Johansson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerry Quarry NERFINISHED ⓘ Muhammad Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar Bonavena NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonny Liston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Floyd Patterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Floyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | 183 cm ⓘ |
| inductedInto | International Boxing Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
gentlemanly demeanor
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peek-a-boo boxing style ⓘ speed ⓘ |
| losses | 8 ⓘ |
| lostTitleTo | Ingemar Johansson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | International Boxing Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first man to regain the world heavyweight title
ⓘ
youngest world heavyweight champion in history at the time ⓘ |
| occupation | boxer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Waco, North Carolina, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New Paltz, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reach | 180 cm ⓘ |
| regainedTitleFrom | Ingemar Johansson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | New Paltz, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retired | 1972 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| stance | orthodox ⓘ |
| totalFights | 64 ⓘ |
| trainer | Cus D'Amato NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| turnedProfessional | 1952 ⓘ |
| weightClass |
heavyweight
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light heavyweight ⓘ |
| wins | 55 ⓘ |
| winsByKO | 40 ⓘ |
| wonTitleFrom | Archie Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldTitle | World Heavyweight Championship 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: Floyd Patterson Description of subject: Floyd Patterson was an American professional boxer who became the youngest world heavyweight champion in history at the time and later regained the title, known for his speed, skill, and gentlemanly demeanor.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.