Larry
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Larry is the given name of Larry Holmes, the American former professional boxer and longtime world heavyweight champion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8766959 — 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: Larry Context triple: [Larry Holmes, givenName, Larry]
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Larry
Larry is the given name of Larry Bird, the legendary Hall of Fame Boston Celtics forward widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players in NBA history.
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B.
Larry
Larry is the sarcastic and somewhat cynical cameraman who works alongside Phil Connors in the film "Groundhog Day."
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Larry
Larry is the commonly used nickname of Lawrence Joseph Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and longtime leader of Oracle Corporation.
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D.
Larry
Larry is the fictional mayor of the shark-plagued resort town Amity Island in the film "Jaws."
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E.
Larry
Larry is a central character in Stephen King’s short story “The Last Rung on the Ladder,” whose relationship with his sister and a childhood tragedy drives the narrative’s emotional impact.
- 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: Larry Target entity description: Larry is the given name of Larry Holmes, the American former professional boxer and longtime world heavyweight champion.
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Larry
Larry is the given name of Larry Bird, the legendary Hall of Fame Boston Celtics forward widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players in NBA history.
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B.
Larry
Larry is a common masculine given name, often a diminutive of Lawrence, used widely in English-speaking countries.
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Larry
Larry is the given name of Larry Berra, better known as Yogi Berra, the legendary American baseball catcher and manager.
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Larry
Larry is the given name of Larry Poons, an American abstract painter associated with the Color Field movement and Op Art.
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Larry
Larry is the commonly used nickname of Lawrence Joseph Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and longtime leader of Oracle Corporation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
professional boxer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-11-03 ⓘ |
| defendedWorldHeavyweightTitle | 20 times ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| fought |
Earnie Shavers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gerry Cooney NERFINISHED ⓘ Ken Norton NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Spinks NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Tyson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Larry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFame | International Boxing Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBusinessInterestIn |
real estate
ⓘ
restaurants ⓘ |
| inductedIntoHallOfFame | 2008 ⓘ |
| livedIn | Easton, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| losses | 6 ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nickname | The Easton Assassin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | one of the best jabs in heavyweight boxing history ⓘ |
| notableFor | long reign as world heavyweight champion ⓘ |
| notableVictoryOver | Muhammad Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
professional boxer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cuthbert, Georgia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | heavyweight boxer ⓘ |
| promotedBy | Don King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignAsWorldHeavyweightChampionEnd | 1985 ⓘ |
| reignAsWorldHeavyweightChampionStart | 1978 ⓘ |
| residence | Easton, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| spouse | Diane Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stance | orthodox ⓘ |
| titlesHeld |
IBF heavyweight title
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
WBA heavyweight title NERFINISHED ⓘ WBC heavyweight title NERFINISHED ⓘ lineal heavyweight title ⓘ |
| totalFights | 75 ⓘ |
| trainedBy | Richie Giachetti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weightClass | heavyweight ⓘ |
| wins | 69 ⓘ |
| winsByKnockout | 44 ⓘ |
| worldChampionIn | heavyweight boxing ⓘ |
| yearsActiveAsProfessionalBoxer | 1973–2002 ⓘ |
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: Larry Description of subject: Larry is the given name of Larry Holmes, the American former professional boxer and longtime world heavyweight champion.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Larry Holmes