Roy Cooper
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Roy Cooper is an American attorney and Democratic politician serving as the Governor of North Carolina.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pat McCrory | 2 |
| Roy Cooper canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6658550 — 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: Roy Cooper Context triple: [UNC School of Law, hasNotableAlumni, Roy Cooper]
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A.
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper is an actor known for appearing in the 1995 coming-of-age drama film "The Basketball Diaries."
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B.
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell is an American Republican politician and attorney who served as the 71st Governor of Virginia from 2010 to 2014.
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C.
Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley is a conservative American politician and lawyer serving as the junior United States senator from Missouri.
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D.
Scott Edwards
Scott Edwards is an Australian-born wicketkeeper-batsman who leads the Netherlands national cricket team in international competitions.
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E.
Jeremy Bulloch
Jeremy Bulloch was an English actor best known for originating the role of Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy.
- 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: Roy Cooper Target entity description: Roy Cooper is an American attorney and Democratic politician serving as the Governor of North Carolina.
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A.
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper is an actor known for appearing in the 1995 coming-of-age drama film "The Basketball Diaries."
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B.
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell is an American Republican politician and attorney who served as the 71st Governor of Virginia from 2010 to 2014.
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C.
Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley is a conservative American politician and lawyer serving as the junior United States senator from Missouri.
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D.
Scott Edwards
Scott Edwards is an Australian-born wicketkeeper-batsman who leads the Netherlands national cricket team in international competitions.
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E.
Jeremy Bulloch
Jeremy Bulloch was an English actor best known for originating the role of Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Governor of North Carolina
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attorney ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Nash County, North Carolina, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Nash County
|
| branchOfGovernment | executive branch of North Carolina ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
UNC School of Law
ⓘ
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ⓘ |
| electedIn | 2016 North Carolina gubernatorial election ⓘ |
| familyName | Cooper ⓘ |
| givenName | Roy ⓘ |
| ideology | American liberalism ⓘ |
| isGovernorOf | North Carolina ⓘ |
| isLiving | true ⓘ |
| jurisdictionOfOffice |
State of North Carolina
ⓘ
linked to:
North Carolina
|
| legalEducation | Juris Doctor from UNC School of Law ⓘ |
| legislativeBodyServedIn | North Carolina General Assembly ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| name | Roy Cooper ⓘ |
| notableFor | Serving as the 75th Governor of North Carolina ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeAssumed | Governor of North Carolina on January 1, 2017 ⓘ |
| partyRole | Democratic leader in North Carolina politics ⓘ |
| policyFocus |
economic development
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education ⓘ health care ⓘ voting rights ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Attorney General of North Carolina
ⓘ
Governor of North Carolina ⓘ Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives ⓘ Member of the North Carolina Senate ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Pat McCrory as Governor of North Carolina
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linked to:
Governor of North Carolina
|
| previousOfficeEnd |
Attorney General of North Carolina in 2017
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linked to:
Attorney General of North Carolina
|
| previousOfficeStart |
Attorney General of North Carolina in 2001
ⓘ
linked to:
Attorney General of North Carolina
|
| profession | lawyer ⓘ |
| reElectedIn | 2020 North Carolina gubernatorial election ⓘ |
| residence |
North Carolina Governor's Mansion, Raleigh, North Carolina
ⓘ
linked to:
North Carolina Executive Mansion
|
| stateLevelOffice |
State attorney general
ⓘ
State governor ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | North Carolina ⓘ |
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: Roy Cooper Description of subject: Roy Cooper is an American attorney and Democratic politician serving as the Governor of North Carolina.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Roy Cooper