Cosby
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Cosby is a surname most prominently associated with American comedian and actor Bill Cosby and his family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cosby canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4889831 — 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: Cosby Context triple: [Camille Cosby, familyName, Cosby]
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A.
The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show is a landmark American sitcom that aired in the 1980s and early 1990s, portraying an upper-middle-class African American family and significantly influencing television representation and culture.
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B.
Henry Cosby
Henry Cosby was an American songwriter and record producer best known for his influential work at Motown Records, where he co-wrote and produced numerous hits for artists like Stevie Wonder.
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C.
Heathcliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show
Heathcliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show is the affable, wisecracking Brooklyn obstetrician and patriarch of the upper-middle-class Huxtable family in the landmark 1980s sitcom.
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D.
John Amos
John Amos is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Good Times" and the miniseries "Roots."
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E.
Rudy Huxtable
Rudy Huxtable is the youngest daughter in the Huxtable family on the classic American sitcom "The Cosby Show," known for her precocious and charming personality.
- 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: Cosby Target entity description: Cosby is a surname most prominently associated with American comedian and actor Bill Cosby and his family.
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A.
The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show is a landmark American sitcom that aired in the 1980s and early 1990s, portraying an upper-middle-class African American family and significantly influencing television representation and culture.
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B.
Henry Cosby
Henry Cosby was an American songwriter and record producer best known for his influential work at Motown Records, where he co-wrote and produced numerous hits for artists like Stevie Wonder.
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C.
Heathcliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show
Heathcliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show is the affable, wisecracking Brooklyn obstetrician and patriarch of the upper-middle-class Huxtable family in the landmark 1980s sitcom.
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D.
John Amos
John Amos is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Good Times" and the miniseries "Roots."
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E.
Rudy Huxtable
Rudy Huxtable is the youngest daughter in the Huxtable family on the classic American sitcom "The Cosby Show," known for her precocious and charming personality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Andrew Cosby
ⓘ
Bill Cosby ⓘ Camille Cosby ⓘ Dabney Cosby ⓘ Dabney Cosby Jr. ⓘ
linked to:
Dabney Cosby
E. Clifton Cosby ⓘ Ennis Cosby ⓘ Ensa Cosby ⓘ Erika Cosby ⓘ Evin Cosby ⓘ Henry Cosby ⓘ John Cosby ⓘ Phillip Cosby ⓘ Rita Cosby ⓘ Thomas Cosby ⓘ
linked to:
John Cosby
|
| hasVariant |
Cosbie
ⓘ
Crosby ⓘ |
| sharesNameWith |
Cosby (TV series)
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linked to:
Cosby
Cosby, Missouri ⓘ Cosby, Tennessee ⓘ |
| usedAs | surname of fictional characters ⓘ |
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: Cosby Description of subject: Cosby is a surname most prominently associated with American comedian and actor Bill Cosby and his family.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.