Billy Cobham
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Billy Cobham is a Panamanian-American jazz fusion drummer renowned for his virtuosic technique and influential work in both solo projects and collaborations with leading fusion artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Billy Cobham canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4942397 — 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: Billy Cobham Context triple: [Mahavishnu Orchestra, hasMember, Billy Cobham]
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A.
Bill Bruford
Bill Bruford is an English drummer and percussionist best known for his innovative work in progressive rock with bands such as Yes, King Crimson, and his own group Bruford.
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B.
John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the psychological thriller film "Black Swan."
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C.
John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin is a film producer known for his work on projects including the 2000 television adaptation of "The Great Gatsby."
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D.
John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin is a pioneering English jazz fusion guitarist and bandleader, best known for his virtuosic work with the Mahavishnu Orchestra and collaborations with major jazz figures.
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E.
Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth was a pioneering English jazz fusion guitarist and composer renowned for his advanced harmonies, fluid legato technique, and influential work with bands like Soft Machine, U.K., and his own solo projects.
- 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: Billy Cobham Target entity description: Billy Cobham is a Panamanian-American jazz fusion drummer renowned for his virtuosic technique and influential work in both solo projects and collaborations with leading fusion artists.
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A.
Bill Bruford
Bill Bruford is an English drummer and percussionist best known for his innovative work in progressive rock with bands such as Yes, King Crimson, and his own group Bruford.
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B.
John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the psychological thriller film "Black Swan."
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C.
John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin is a film producer known for his work on projects including the 2000 television adaptation of "The Great Gatsby."
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D.
John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin is a pioneering English jazz fusion guitarist and bandleader, best known for his virtuosic work with the Mahavishnu Orchestra and collaborations with major jazz figures.
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E.
Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth was a pioneering English jazz fusion guitarist and composer renowned for his advanced harmonies, fluid legato technique, and influential work with bands like Soft Machine, U.K., and his own solo projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandleader
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composer ⓘ drummer ⓘ human ⓘ jazz fusion drummer ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Brecker Brothers
NERFINISHED
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Dreams NERFINISHED ⓘ George Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ Horace Silver NERFINISHED ⓘ John McLaughlin NERFINISHED ⓘ Mahavishnu Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ Miles Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Gabriel NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Bolin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | William Emanuel Cobham Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Panama
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1944-05-16 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Panamanian-American ⓘ |
| genre |
funk
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jazz ⓘ jazz fusion ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | modern jazz fusion drummers ⓘ |
| instrument |
drums
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percussion ⓘ |
| memberOf | Mahavishnu Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Billy Cobham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
pioneering jazz fusion drumming
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virtuosic drumming technique ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Funky Thide of Sings
NERFINISHED
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Crosswinds NERFINISHED ⓘ Inner Conflicts NERFINISHED ⓘ Shabazz NERFINISHED ⓘ Spectrum NERFINISHED ⓘ Total Eclipse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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drummer ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Colón, Panama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atlantic Records
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CTI Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Columbia Records ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Billy Cobham Description of subject: Billy Cobham is a Panamanian-American jazz fusion drummer renowned for his virtuosic technique and influential work in both solo projects and collaborations with leading fusion artists.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.