Bill Cobbs
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Bill Cobbs is an American character actor known for his prolific supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in movies like "Night at the Museum," "Demolition Man," and "The Hudsucker Proxy."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Cobbs canonical | 16 |
| Wilbert Francisco Cobbs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T155686 — 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: Bill Cobbs Context triple: [The Bodyguard, castMember, Bill Cobbs]
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A.
Sherman Adams
Sherman Adams was an American politician and close aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, best known for his influential role in the Eisenhower administration and his resignation amid a gifts scandal.
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B.
Earle Cabell
Earle Cabell was an American politician and businessman who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the early 1960s, including at the time of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
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C.
Sam Huff
Sam Huff was a legendary Hall of Fame middle linebacker renowned for his hard-hitting play with the New York Giants in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Bob Miner
Bob Miner was an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Oracle Corporation and a key architect of its early database technology.
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E.
Jack Barry Field
Jack Barry Field is an outdoor athletic facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology primarily used for the university’s varsity sports programs.
- 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: Bill Cobbs Target entity description: Bill Cobbs is an American character actor known for his prolific supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in movies like "Night at the Museum," "Demolition Man," and "The Hudsucker Proxy."
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A.
Sherman Adams
Sherman Adams was an American politician and close aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, best known for his influential role in the Eisenhower administration and his resignation amid a gifts scandal.
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B.
Earle Cabell
Earle Cabell was an American politician and businessman who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the early 1960s, including at the time of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
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C.
Sam Huff
Sam Huff was a legendary Hall of Fame middle linebacker renowned for his hard-hitting play with the New York Giants in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Bob Miner
Bob Miner was an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Oracle Corporation and a key architect of its early database technology.
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E.
Jack Barry Field
Jack Barry Field is an outdoor athletic facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology primarily used for the university’s varsity sports programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Bill Cobbs Description of subject: Bill Cobbs is an American character actor known for his prolific supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in movies like "Night at the Museum," "Demolition Man," and "The Hudsucker Proxy."
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bill Cobbs