Curt Hennig
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American professional wrestler
color commentator
human
professional wrestler
professional wrestling manager
Curt Hennig was an American professional wrestler best known for his influential WWF/E and WCW career under the ring name "Mr. Perfect."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Curt Hennig canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11603890 — 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: Curt Hennig Context triple: [Michael McGillicutty, trainedBy, Curt Hennig]
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A.
Bobby Steele
Bobby Steele is an American punk rock guitarist best known for his work with the horror punk band the Misfits and later as founder of The Undead.
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B.
Tommy Boatwright
Tommy Boatwright is a compassionate, Southern-born hospital volunteer and one of the key gay activist characters in Larry Kramer's AIDS-crisis drama "The Normal Heart."
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C.
Don Castle
Don Castle was an American film actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his roles in Hollywood dramas and B-movies.
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D.
Cliff Nazarro
Cliff Nazarro was an American character actor and comedian known for his rapid-fire "double-talk" routines in films and radio during the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Bobby Dupea
Bobby Dupea is a disillusioned former piano prodigy turned blue-collar oil worker whose restless search for identity and meaning drives the drama of the film "Five Easy Pieces."
- 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: Curt Hennig Target entity description: Curt Hennig was an American professional wrestler best known for his influential WWF/E and WCW career under the ring name "Mr. Perfect."
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A.
Bobby Steele
Bobby Steele is an American punk rock guitarist best known for his work with the horror punk band the Misfits and later as founder of The Undead.
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B.
Tommy Boatwright
Tommy Boatwright is a compassionate, Southern-born hospital volunteer and one of the key gay activist characters in Larry Kramer's AIDS-crisis drama "The Normal Heart."
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C.
Don Castle
Don Castle was an American film actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his roles in Hollywood dramas and B-movies.
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D.
Cliff Nazarro
Cliff Nazarro was an American character actor and comedian known for his rapid-fire "double-talk" routines in films and radio during the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Bobby Dupea
Bobby Dupea is a disillusioned former piano prodigy turned blue-collar oil worker whose restless search for identity and meaning drives the drama of the film "Five Easy Pieces."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American professional wrestler
ⓘ
color commentator ⓘ human ⓘ professional wrestler ⓘ professional wrestling manager ⓘ |
| billedFrom | Robbinsdale, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Curtis Michael Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | acute cocaine intoxication ⓘ |
| child |
Amy Hennig
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joe Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-03-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2003-02-10 ⓘ |
| employer |
American Wrestling Association
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling NERFINISHED ⓘ World Championship Wrestling NERFINISHED ⓘ World Wrestling Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ World Wrestling Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | German-American ⓘ |
| father | Larry Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductedAs | individual ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | WWE Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInductionYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| height | about 191 cm ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influential Intercontinental Championship matches
ⓘ
perfect athlete vignettes in WWF ⓘ |
| memberOf |
New World Order
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Four Horsemen NERFINISHED ⓘ West Texas Rednecks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Curt Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlias | Mr. Perfect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
AWA World Heavyweight Championship reign
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
WWF Intercontinental Championship reigns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
color commentator
ⓘ
professional wrestler ⓘ professional wrestling manager ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Robbinsdale, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Tampa, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ringName |
Curt Hennig
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Curtis Axel’s father ⓘ Mr. Perfect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | technical wrestling ⓘ |
| trainedBy |
Harley Race
NERFINISHED
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Larry Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ Verne Gagne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weight | about 118 kg ⓘ |
| wrestlingDebut | 1980 ⓘ |
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: Curt Hennig Description of subject: Curt Hennig was an American professional wrestler best known for his influential WWF/E and WCW career under the ring name "Mr. Perfect."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.