James J. Jeffries
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James J. Jeffries was an American heavyweight boxing champion of the early 20th century, best known for coming out of retirement to fight Jack Johnson in the 1910 "Fight of the Century."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James J. Jeffries canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10205621 — 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: James J. Jeffries Context triple: [Jack Johnson, opponent, James J. Jeffries]
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A.
James J. Corbett
James J. Corbett was an American heavyweight boxing champion of the late 19th century, famed for his scientific fighting style and for defeating John L. Sullivan.
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B.
John V. Sullivan
John V. Sullivan is an American attorney and legislative expert who served as the Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives, advising on procedural rules and legislative process.
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C.
John L. Sullivan
John L. Sullivan was a legendary 19th-century American heavyweight boxer, often regarded as the last bare-knuckle champion and one of the first sports celebrities in the United States.
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D.
John L. Sullivan
John L. Sullivan was an American government official who served in senior defense leadership roles during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Montgomery Pittman
Montgomery Pittman was an American television writer, director, and occasional actor best known for his work on series like "The Twilight Zone" and various Warner Bros. TV westerns in the 1950s and 1960s.
- 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: James J. Jeffries Target entity description: James J. Jeffries was an American heavyweight boxing champion of the early 20th century, best known for coming out of retirement to fight Jack Johnson in the 1910 "Fight of the Century."
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A.
James J. Corbett
James J. Corbett was an American heavyweight boxing champion of the late 19th century, famed for his scientific fighting style and for defeating John L. Sullivan.
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B.
John V. Sullivan
John V. Sullivan is an American attorney and legislative expert who served as the Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives, advising on procedural rules and legislative process.
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C.
John L. Sullivan
John L. Sullivan was a legendary 19th-century American heavyweight boxer, often regarded as the last bare-knuckle champion and one of the first sports celebrities in the United States.
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D.
John L. Sullivan
John L. Sullivan was an American government official who served in senior defense leadership roles during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Montgomery Pittman
Montgomery Pittman was an American television writer, director, and occasional actor best known for his work on series like "The Twilight Zone" and various Warner Bros. TV westerns in the 1950s and 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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professional boxer ⓘ world heavyweight boxing champion ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1875-04-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Carroll, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cameOutOfRetirementFor | Fight of the Century (1910) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| championshipReignEnd | 1904 ⓘ |
| championshipReignStart | 1899 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1953-03-03 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Burbank, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defeated |
Bob Fitzsimmons
NERFINISHED
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James J. Corbett NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Sharkey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defendedTitleAgainst |
Bob Fitzsimmons
NERFINISHED
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James J. Corbett NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Sharkey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Jeffries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fightDateWithJackJohnson | 1910-07-04 ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | International Boxing Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| height | approximately 6 ft 2 in ⓘ |
| knownFor |
coming out of retirement to fight Jack Johnson in 1910
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world heavyweight boxing champion at the turn of the 20th century ⓘ |
| locationOfFightWithJackJohnson | Reno, Nevada, United States GENERATED ⓘ |
| lostTo | Jack Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | James J. Jeffries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname |
Jim Jeffries
NERFINISHED
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The Boilermaker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
boxer
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farmer ⓘ referee ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Fight of the Century (1910) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| raisedIn | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
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surface form:
Protestantism
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| residence |
Burbank, California, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| retiredFromBoxing | 1904 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| stance | orthodox stance ⓘ |
| titleHeld | World Heavyweight Champion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trainedAs | boilermaker ⓘ |
| weightClass | heavyweight ⓘ |
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: James J. Jeffries Description of subject: James J. Jeffries was an American heavyweight boxing champion of the early 20th century, best known for coming out of retirement to fight Jack Johnson in the 1910 "Fight of the Century."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.