Leon Spinks
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Leon Spinks was an American professional boxer best known for his stunning 1978 upset victory over Muhammad Ali to win the world heavyweight title.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Leon Spinks canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8936590 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Leon Spinks Context triple: [Michael Spinks, sibling, Leon Spinks]
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A.
Michael Spinks
Michael Spinks is an American former professional boxer, Olympic gold medalist, and world champion in both the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions, renowned for his technical skill and unorthodox style.
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B.
Ken Norton
Ken Norton was an American heavyweight boxer best known for his trilogy with Muhammad Ali and for being one of the top contenders of the 1970s.
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C.
Larry Holmes
Larry Holmes is an American former professional boxer best known as the long-reigning WBC and IBF heavyweight champion who successfully defended his title 20 times between 1978 and 1985.
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D.
Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns is an American boxing legend known for his devastating punching power, multiple world titles across different weight classes, and classic battles in the 1980s against fellow greats like Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler.
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E.
Jackie George
Jackie George is a film producer known for work on independent cinema, including the drama "The Ballad of Jack and Rose."
- 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: Leon Spinks Target entity description: Leon Spinks was an American professional boxer best known for his stunning 1978 upset victory over Muhammad Ali to win the world heavyweight title.
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A.
Michael Spinks
Michael Spinks is an American former professional boxer, Olympic gold medalist, and world champion in both the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions, renowned for his technical skill and unorthodox style.
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B.
Ken Norton
Ken Norton was an American heavyweight boxer best known for his trilogy with Muhammad Ali and for being one of the top contenders of the 1970s.
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C.
Larry Holmes
Larry Holmes is an American former professional boxer best known as the long-reigning WBC and IBF heavyweight champion who successfully defended his title 20 times between 1978 and 1985.
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D.
Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns is an American boxing legend known for his devastating punching power, multiple world titles across different weight classes, and classic battles in the 1980s against fellow greats like Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler.
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E.
Jackie George
Jackie George is a film producer known for work on independent cinema, including the drama "The Ballad of Jack and Rose."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
professional boxer ⓘ |
| boxingWeightClass |
cruiserweight
ⓘ
heavyweight ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
other cancers
ⓘ
prostate cancer ⓘ |
| child | Cory Spinks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1953-07-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-02-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 1978-02-15 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| event |
Leon Spinks vs. Muhammad Ali I
NERFINISHED
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Leon Spinks vs. Muhammad Ali II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Spinks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fought | Muhammad Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Leon Spinks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Leon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | upset victory over Muhammad Ali in 1978 ⓘ |
| lostTitleTo | Muhammad Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Lance Corporal ⓘ |
| nickname | Neon Leon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | defeating Muhammad Ali to win the world heavyweight title in 1978 ⓘ |
| occupation | boxer ⓘ |
| OlympicEvent | light heavyweight boxing ⓘ |
| OlympicMedal | gold medal ⓘ |
| participatedIn | 1976 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | St. Louis, Missouri, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Henderson, Nevada, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Michael Spinks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| representedAtOlympics | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Louis, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retired | 1995 ⓘ |
| servedIn | Vietnam War era (non-combat role) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Michael Spinks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| spouse | Betty Wilson Spinks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | orthodox stance ⓘ |
| titleHeld | world heavyweight champion ⓘ |
| turnedProfessional | 1977 ⓘ |
| wonTitleFrom | Muhammad Ali 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: Leon Spinks Description of subject: Leon Spinks was an American professional boxer best known for his stunning 1978 upset victory over Muhammad Ali to win the world heavyweight title.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.