Travis Lazarus McCoy
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Travis Lazarus McCoy is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative hip hop band Gym Class Heroes and for his solo hit "Billionaire."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Travis Lazarus McCoy canonical | 1 |
| Travis McCoy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13072969 — 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: Travis Lazarus McCoy Context triple: [Travie McCoy, birthName, Travis Lazarus McCoy]
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A.
John Travis
John Travis is a writer known for works that often explore themes and settings associated with the American cowboy and Western culture.
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B.
John Travis
John Travis is a film and television producer known for his work on the long-running reality series "Cowboy."
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C.
John Travis
John Travis is a music producer known for his work on Kid Rock's song "Only God Knows Why."
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D.
Travis Montgomery
Travis Montgomery is a central firefighter character in the television drama "Station 19," known for his compassion, humor, and dedication to his crew.
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E.
Travis Younger
Travis Younger is the young son in Lorraine Hansberry’s play "A Raisin in the Sun," symbolizing hope and the future aspirations of the Younger family.
- 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: Travis Lazarus McCoy Target entity description: Travis Lazarus McCoy is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative hip hop band Gym Class Heroes and for his solo hit "Billionaire."
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A.
John Travis
John Travis is a film and television producer known for his work on the long-running reality series "Cowboy."
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B.
John Travis
John Travis is a writer known for works that often explore themes and settings associated with the American cowboy and Western culture.
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C.
John Travis
John Travis is a music producer known for his work on Kid Rock's song "Only God Knows Why."
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D.
Travis Montgomery
Travis Montgomery is a central firefighter character in the television drama "Station 19," known for his compassion, humor, and dedication to his crew.
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E.
Travis Younger
Travis Younger is the young son in Lorraine Hansberry’s play "A Raisin in the Sun," symbolizing hope and the future aspirations of the Younger family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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rapper ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
B.o.B
NERFINISHED
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Bruno Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ CeeLo Green NERFINISHED ⓘ Fall Out Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ Gym Class Heroes NERFINISHED ⓘ Panic! at the Disco NERFINISHED ⓘ T-Pain NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1981-08-06 ⓘ |
| debutSoloAlbum | Lazarus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutSoloSingle | Billionaire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
African-American
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Native American descent ⓘ |
| familyName | McCoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative hip hop
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hip hop ⓘ pop ⓘ pop rap ⓘ |
| givenName | Travis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
lead vocalist of Gym Class Heroes
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solo hit Billionaire featuring Bruno Mars ⓘ |
| memberOf | Gym Class Heroes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Travis Lazarus McCoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
MTV Video Music Award
NERFINISHED
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Teen Choice Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ass Back Home
NERFINISHED
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Billionaire ⓘ Cupid's Chokehold NERFINISHED ⓘ Stereo Hearts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
rapper
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record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Geneva, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInBand | lead vocalist of Gym Class Heroes ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
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Decaydance Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Fueled by Ramen NERFINISHED ⓘ Nappy Boy Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| stageName | Travie McCoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1997–present ⓘ |
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: Travis Lazarus McCoy Description of subject: Travis Lazarus McCoy is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative hip hop band Gym Class Heroes and for his solo hit "Billionaire."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Travis McCoy