Lyoto Machida
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Lyoto Machida is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC light heavyweight champion known for his elusive, karate-based striking style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lyoto Machida canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11031547 — 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: Lyoto Machida Context triple: [Jon Jones, notableOpponent, Lyoto Machida]
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A.
Rafael dos Anjos
Rafael dos Anjos is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC lightweight champion known for his high-pressure striking and well-rounded grappling.
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B.
Max Holloway
Max Holloway is an American mixed martial artist and former UFC featherweight champion known for his high-volume striking and durability.
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C.
Ben Askren
Ben Askren is a retired American mixed martial artist and former Olympic wrestler known for his elite grappling and championship runs in Bellator and ONE Championship.
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D.
Donald Cerrone
Donald Cerrone is an American mixed martial artist and kickboxer known for his prolific UFC career, fan-friendly fighting style, and record number of appearances and bonuses in the promotion.
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E.
Fabricio Werdum
Fabricio Werdum is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC heavyweight champion renowned for his elite Brazilian jiu-jitsu and victories over several top heavyweights.
- 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: Lyoto Machida Target entity description: Lyoto Machida is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC light heavyweight champion known for his elusive, karate-based striking style.
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A.
Rafael dos Anjos
Rafael dos Anjos is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC lightweight champion known for his high-pressure striking and well-rounded grappling.
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B.
Max Holloway
Max Holloway is an American mixed martial artist and former UFC featherweight champion known for his high-volume striking and durability.
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C.
Ben Askren
Ben Askren is a retired American mixed martial artist and former Olympic wrestler known for his elite grappling and championship runs in Bellator and ONE Championship.
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D.
Donald Cerrone
Donald Cerrone is an American mixed martial artist and kickboxer known for his prolific UFC career, fan-friendly fighting style, and record number of appearances and bonuses in the promotion.
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E.
Fabricio Werdum
Fabricio Werdum is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC heavyweight champion renowned for his elite Brazilian jiu-jitsu and victories over several top heavyweights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brazilian mixed martial artist
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human ⓘ mixed martial artist ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1978-05-30 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Salvador, Bahia, Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Brazil ⓘ |
| dateLostTitle | 2010-05-08 ⓘ |
| dateWonTitle | 2009-05-23 ⓘ |
| employer |
Bellator MMA
NERFINISHED
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Ultimate Fighting Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Japanese descent ⓘ |
| eventLostTitleAt | UFC 113 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eventWonTitleAt | UFC 98 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Machida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Yoshizo Machida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fightingOutOf | Belém, Pará, Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Lyoto Carvalho Machida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Lyoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBlackBeltIn |
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
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Shotokan karate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFought |
Chael Sonnen
NERFINISHED
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Chris Weidman NERFINISHED ⓘ Dan Henderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Gegard Mousasi NERFINISHED ⓘ Jon Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Mauricio Rua NERFINISHED ⓘ Randy Couture NERFINISHED ⓘ Rashad Evans NERFINISHED ⓘ Ryan Bader NERFINISHED ⓘ Tito Ortiz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
UFC Light Heavyweight Championship
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
elusive karate-based striking style ⓘ |
| lostTitleTo | Mauricio Rua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| martialArt |
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
NERFINISHED
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Muay Thai NERFINISHED ⓘ Shotokan karate NERFINISHED ⓘ sumo ⓘ |
| nationality | Brazilian ⓘ |
| nickname | The Dragon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
former UFC champion
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karateka ⓘ mixed martial artist ⓘ |
| residence | Belém, Pará, Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | mixed martial arts ⓘ |
| stance | southpaw ⓘ |
| titleHeld | UFC Light Heavyweight Champion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UFCDebutOpponent | Sam Hoger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weightClass |
light heavyweight
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middleweight ⓘ |
| wonTitleFrom | Rashad Evans 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: Lyoto Machida Description of subject: Lyoto Machida is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC light heavyweight champion known for his elusive, karate-based striking style.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.