Larry Hennig
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Larry Hennig was an American professional wrestler best known for his successful tag team career in the AWA and as the father of "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Hennig canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11603894 — 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)
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Target entity: Larry Hennig Context triple: [Michael McGillicutty, grandfather, Larry Hennig]
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A.
Joe Hennig
Joe Hennig is an American professional wrestler best known for his WWE run under the ring name Curtis Axel and for being the son of WWE Hall of Famer "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig.
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B.
Ray Nitschke
Ray Nitschke was a legendary middle linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, renowned for his hard-hitting play and key role in Vince Lombardi’s championship teams.
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C.
Ray Heindorf
Ray Heindorf was an American composer, arranger, and musical director best known for his work on numerous Hollywood film scores during the mid-20th century.
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D.
John Wetteland
John Wetteland is a former Major League Baseball closer best known for his dominant relief pitching in the 1990s, particularly with the New York Yankees.
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E.
Roy Tarpley
Roy Tarpley was an American professional basketball player, best known as a talented but troubled Dallas Mavericks big man whose NBA career was derailed by substance abuse issues.
- 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: Larry Hennig Target entity description: Larry Hennig was an American professional wrestler best known for his successful tag team career in the AWA and as the father of "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig.
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A.
Joe Hennig
Joe Hennig is an American professional wrestler best known for his WWE run under the ring name Curtis Axel and for being the son of WWE Hall of Famer "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig.
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B.
Ray Nitschke
Ray Nitschke was a legendary middle linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, renowned for his hard-hitting play and key role in Vince Lombardi’s championship teams.
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C.
Ray Heindorf
Ray Heindorf was an American composer, arranger, and musical director best known for his work on numerous Hollywood film scores during the mid-20th century.
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D.
John Wetteland
John Wetteland is a former Major League Baseball closer best known for his dominant relief pitching in the 1990s, particularly with the New York Yankees.
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E.
Roy Tarpley
Roy Tarpley was an American professional basketball player, best known as a talented but troubled Dallas Mavericks big man whose NBA career was derailed by substance abuse issues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American professional wrestler
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human ⓘ professional wrestler ⓘ |
| billedFrom | Robbinsdale, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1936-06-18 ⓘ |
| birthName | Larry Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | kidney failure ⓘ |
| child |
Curt Hennig
NERFINISHED
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Leonard Hennig Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Randy Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ Sandra Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2018-12-06 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| debut | 1956 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | German American ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Curt Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfatherOf |
Amy Hennig
NERFINISHED
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Hank Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ Katie Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hallOfFame |
George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
NERFINISHED
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Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
power wrestling style
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tag team with Harley Race ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Wrestling Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Larry Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | The Axe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | tag team wrestling career in the American Wrestling Association ⓘ |
| occupation | professional wrestler ⓘ |
| relative |
Curt Hennig
NERFINISHED
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Joe Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retired | 1985 ⓘ |
| ringName |
Larry Hennig
NERFINISHED
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The Axe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | professional wrestling ⓘ |
| spouse | Irene Hennig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tagTeamPartner |
Curt Hennig
NERFINISHED
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Duke Hoffman NERFINISHED ⓘ Harley Race NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trainedBy |
Joe Pazandak
NERFINISHED
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Verne Gagne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrestledFor |
American Wrestling Association
NERFINISHED
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National Wrestling Alliance NERFINISHED ⓘ World Wrestling Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Hennig Description of subject: Larry Hennig was an American professional wrestler best known for his successful tag team career in the AWA and as the father of "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.