Cobbs
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Cobbs is the surname of American character actor Bill Cobbs, known for his extensive work in film and television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cobbs canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1282696 — 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: Cobbs Context triple: [Bill Cobbs, familyName, Cobbs]
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A.
Harbison
Harbison is a surname most notably associated with American composer John Harbison, known for his contributions to contemporary classical music.
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B.
Coburn
Coburn is a surname and given name that serves as an alternative spelling of Cockburn, borne by various notable individuals in politics, entertainment, and other fields.
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C.
McCauley
McCauley is the maiden surname of Rosa Parks, the prominent American civil rights activist known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
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D.
Tucker
Tucker is a surname most notably associated with Albert W. Tucker, a Canadian-American mathematician and game theorist known for his contributions to topology and the formalization of the prisoner's dilemma.
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E.
Roscoe
"Roscoe" is an essay by Washington Irving, included in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*, that reflects on the life and character of English historian and writer William Roscoe.
- 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: Cobbs Target entity description: Cobbs is the surname of American character actor Bill Cobbs, known for his extensive work in film and television.
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A.
Harbison
Harbison is a surname most notably associated with American composer John Harbison, known for his contributions to contemporary classical music.
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B.
Coburn
Coburn is a surname and given name that serves as an alternative spelling of Cockburn, borne by various notable individuals in politics, entertainment, and other fields.
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C.
McCauley
McCauley is the maiden surname of Rosa Parks, the prominent American civil rights activist known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
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D.
Tucker
Tucker is a surname most notably associated with Albert W. Tucker, a Canadian-American mathematician and game theorist known for his contributions to topology and the formalization of the prisoner's dilemma.
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E.
Roscoe
"Roscoe" is an essay by Washington Irving, included in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*, that reflects on the life and character of English historian and writer William Roscoe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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family name ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Cobbs ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extensive work in film
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extensive work in television ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| usedBy | Bill Cobbs ⓘ |
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: Cobbs Description of subject: Cobbs is the surname of American character actor Bill Cobbs, known for his extensive work in film and television.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.