Jimmy Cox
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Jimmy Cox was an early 20th-century American songwriter best known for penning the classic blues standard "Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jimmy Cox canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12793338 — 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: Jimmy Cox Context triple: [Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out, writer, Jimmy Cox]
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A.
Michael Graham Cox
Michael Graham Cox was a British actor best known for his voice and character roles in film, television, and radio, including work on animated adaptations of classic literature.
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B.
Alan Cox
Alan Cox is a prominent British software engineer best known for his extensive work on the Linux kernel and long-standing contributions to the free software movement.
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C.
Danny Cox
Danny Cox is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher best known for his years with the St. Louis Cardinals during the 1980s.
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D.
Dean Cox
Dean Cox is a retired Australian rules footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest ruckmen in AFL history, best known for his long and decorated career with the West Coast Eagles.
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E.
Jon Cooksey
Jon Cooksey is a television and film writer best known for co-writing the popular Disney Channel movie "Halloweentown."
- 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: Jimmy Cox Target entity description: Jimmy Cox was an early 20th-century American songwriter best known for penning the classic blues standard "Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out."
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A.
Michael Graham Cox
Michael Graham Cox was a British actor best known for his voice and character roles in film, television, and radio, including work on animated adaptations of classic literature.
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B.
Alan Cox
Alan Cox is a prominent British software engineer best known for his extensive work on the Linux kernel and long-standing contributions to the free software movement.
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C.
Danny Cox
Danny Cox is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher best known for his years with the St. Louis Cardinals during the 1980s.
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D.
Dean Cox
Dean Cox is a retired Australian rules footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest ruckmen in AFL history, best known for his long and decorated career with the West Coast Eagles.
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E.
Jon Cooksey
Jon Cooksey is a television and film writer best known for co-writing the popular Disney Channel movie "Halloweentown."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues standard
ⓘ
lyricist ⓘ person ⓘ song ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
popular music
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songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
ⓘ
blues ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Jimmy Cox ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notability | best known for writing the blues standard "Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out ⓘ |
| occupation |
lyricist
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songwriter ⓘ |
| wrote | Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out ⓘ |
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: Jimmy Cox Description of subject: Jimmy Cox was an early 20th-century American songwriter best known for penning the classic blues standard "Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.