David Cobb
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David Cobb is an American attorney and political activist best known as the Green Party’s presidential nominee in the 2004 U.S. election.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Cobb canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1534956 — 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 Cobb Context triple: [2004 United States presidential election, majorThirdPartyCandidate, David Cobb]
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A.
Earle Cabell
Earle Cabell was an American politician and businessman who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the early 1960s, including at the time of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
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B.
Donald Cook
Donald Cook was an American stage and film actor active in the early to mid-20th century, known for his roles in both Broadway productions and Hollywood movies.
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C.
Kees Cook
Kees Cook is a prominent open-source and Linux kernel security developer known for his extensive work on hardening the Linux kernel and improving software security practices.
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D.
Danny Darwin
Danny Darwin is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played from the late 1970s through the 1990s for several teams, including the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros.
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E.
Dan Foy
Dan Foy is an American local politician who serves as the mayor of Burbank, Illinois.
- 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 Cobb Target entity description: David Cobb is an American attorney and political activist best known as the Green Party’s presidential nominee in the 2004 U.S. election.
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A.
Earle Cabell
Earle Cabell was an American politician and businessman who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the early 1960s, including at the time of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
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B.
Donald Cook
Donald Cook was an American stage and film actor active in the early to mid-20th century, known for his roles in both Broadway productions and Hollywood movies.
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C.
Kees Cook
Kees Cook is a prominent open-source and Linux kernel security developer known for his extensive work on hardening the Linux kernel and improving software security practices.
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D.
Danny Darwin
Danny Darwin is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played from the late 1970s through the 1990s for several teams, including the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros.
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E.
Dan Foy
Dan Foy is an American local politician who serves as the mayor of Burbank, Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: David Cobb Description of subject: David Cobb is an American attorney and political activist best known as the Green Party’s presidential nominee in the 2004 U.S. election.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.