Cotten
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Cotten is a surname most notably associated with American actor Joseph Cotten, a prominent figure in classic Hollywood cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cotten canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2541826 — 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: Cotten Context triple: [Joseph Cotten, familyName, Cotten]
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A.
Cotton
Cotton is a soft, natural fiber harvested from the seed pods of cotton plants and widely used in textiles and clothing.
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B.
Seaborn Cotton
Seaborn Cotton was a 17th-century New England Puritan minister and the son of prominent theologian John Cotton.
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C.
Coton
Coton is a small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, located just west of the city of Cambridge.
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D.
Tweed
Tweed is a state electoral district in New South Wales, Australia, encompassing the coastal region around Tweed Heads near the Queensland border.
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E.
Silken Floss
Silken Floss is a stylish and enigmatic femme fatale and scientist who serves as one of the main villains in the 2008 superhero film "The Spirit."
- 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: Cotten Target entity description: Cotten is a surname most notably associated with American actor Joseph Cotten, a prominent figure in classic Hollywood cinema.
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A.
Cotton
Cotton is a soft, natural fiber harvested from the seed pods of cotton plants and widely used in textiles and clothing.
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B.
Seaborn Cotton
Seaborn Cotton was a 17th-century New England Puritan minister and the son of prominent theologian John Cotton.
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C.
Coton
Coton is a small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, located just west of the city of Cambridge.
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D.
Tweed
Tweed is a state electoral district in New South Wales, Australia, encompassing the coastal region around Tweed Heads near the Queensland border.
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E.
Silken Floss
Silken Floss is a stylish and enigmatic femme fatale and scientist who serves as one of the main villains in the 2008 superhero film "The Spirit."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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American musician ⓘ American writer ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1893-01-05
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1905-05-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath |
1987-06-29
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1994-02-06 ⓘ |
| genre | classic Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Elizabeth Cotten
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Joseph Cotten ⓘ Sallie Southall Cotten ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Citizen Kane
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Freight Train ⓘ Shadow of a Doubt ⓘ The Magnificent Ambersons ⓘ The Third Man ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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clubwoman ⓘ film actor ⓘ guitarist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Petersburg, Virginia, United States
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linked to:
Petersburg, Virginia
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| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| spouse |
Lenore Kipp LaMont
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linked to:
Lenore Kipp
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| workedWith | Orson Welles ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1930s–1980s ⓘ |
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: Cotten Description of subject: Cotten is a surname most notably associated with American actor Joseph Cotten, a prominent figure in classic Hollywood cinema.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.