David Cook
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David Cook is an American rock singer-songwriter who rose to fame as the winner of the seventh season of American Idol and has since released several successful albums and singles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Cook canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11332792 — 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: David Cook Context triple: [19 Recordings, notableArtist, David Cook]
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A.
Tyler Dawson
Tyler Dawson is a central character in the 1938 adventure film "Spawn of the North," set in the rugged Alaskan frontier.
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B.
Adam Cook
Adam Cook is a central character in the musical film "An American in Paris," serving as a close friend and confidant to the protagonist while providing much of the story’s humor and heart.
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C.
Brennan Thicke
Brennan Thicke is an American voice actor best known for voicing the title character in the animated series "Dennis the Menace" and for being the eldest son of actor Alan Thicke.
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D.
Donavon Frankenreiter
Donavon Frankenreiter is an American singer-songwriter and surfer known for his laid-back, folk-rock sound and close association with Jack Johnson and the surf music scene.
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E.
Christopher Young
Christopher Young is an American film composer renowned for his atmospheric and often darkly dramatic scores across horror, thriller, and action movies.
- 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: David Cook Target entity description: David Cook is an American rock singer-songwriter who rose to fame as the winner of the seventh season of American Idol and has since released several successful albums and singles.
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A.
Tyler Dawson
Tyler Dawson is a central character in the 1938 adventure film "Spawn of the North," set in the rugged Alaskan frontier.
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B.
Adam Cook
Adam Cook is a central character in the musical film "An American in Paris," serving as a close friend and confidant to the protagonist while providing much of the story’s humor and heart.
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C.
Brennan Thicke
Brennan Thicke is an American voice actor best known for voicing the title character in the animated series "Dennis the Menace" and for being the eldest son of actor Alan Thicke.
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D.
Donavon Frankenreiter
Donavon Frankenreiter is an American singer-songwriter and surfer known for his laid-back, folk-rock sound and close association with Jack Johnson and the surf music scene.
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E.
Christopher Young
Christopher Young is an American film composer renowned for his atmospheric and often darkly dramatic scores across horror, thriller, and action movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Idol winner
ⓘ
human ⓘ rock musician ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| associatedAct | American Idol Live! Tour 2008 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Nashville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1982-12-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Central Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| familyName | Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | graphic design ⓘ |
| genre |
pop rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Adam Cook
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Andrew Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instagramAccount | https://www.instagram.com/thedavidcook/ ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
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piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriageDate | 2015 ⓘ |
| name | David Roland Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | debut major-label album David Cook certified platinum by RIAA ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Analog Heart
NERFINISHED
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David Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ Digital Vein NERFINISHED ⓘ This Loud Morning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEP | Chromance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSingle |
Come Back to Me
NERFINISHED
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Light On NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last Goodbye NERFINISHED ⓘ Time of My Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableTour | The Declaration Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | winning the seventh season of American Idol ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| officialWebsite | http://www.davidcookofficial.com/ ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Analog Heart Music
NERFINISHED
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RCA Records ⓘ |
| spouse | Rachael Stump NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startOfActiveYears | 1999 ⓘ |
| twitterAccount | https://twitter.com/thedavidcook ⓘ |
| winnerOf | American Idol season 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: David Cook Description of subject: David Cook is an American rock singer-songwriter who rose to fame as the winner of the seventh season of American Idol and has since released several successful albums and singles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.