Cisco Houston
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Cisco Houston was an American folk singer and guitarist known for his close collaboration with Woody Guthrie and his performances of traditional and socially conscious songs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cisco Houston canonical | 26 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1921791 — 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: Cisco Houston Context triple: [Woody Guthrie, associatedWith, Cisco Houston]
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A.
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is a multinational technology conglomerate best known for designing and selling networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment used worldwide.
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B.
Southern Telecom
Southern Telecom is a telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company that provides fiber-optic network and related communication services.
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C.
Xoom Corporation
Xoom Corporation is a digital money transfer service that enables individuals to send funds, pay bills, and reload mobile phones internationally, and operates as a subsidiary of PayPal.
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D.
Comcast Technology Center
Comcast Technology Center is a supertall skyscraper in Philadelphia that serves as a major office, broadcast, and hotel complex and stands as one of the tallest buildings in the United States.
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E.
BBN Technologies
BBN Technologies is an American research and development company renowned for its pioneering work in computer networking and its key role in creating the ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet.
- 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: Cisco Houston Target entity description: Cisco Houston was an American folk singer and guitarist known for his close collaboration with Woody Guthrie and his performances of traditional and socially conscious songs.
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A.
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is a multinational technology conglomerate best known for designing and selling networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment used worldwide.
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B.
Southern Telecom
Southern Telecom is a telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company that provides fiber-optic network and related communication services.
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C.
Xoom Corporation
Xoom Corporation is a digital money transfer service that enables individuals to send funds, pay bills, and reload mobile phones internationally, and operates as a subsidiary of PayPal.
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D.
Comcast Technology Center
Comcast Technology Center is a supertall skyscraper in Philadelphia that serves as a major office, broadcast, and hotel complex and stands as one of the tallest buildings in the United States.
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E.
BBN Technologies
BBN Technologies is an American research and development company renowned for its pioneering work in computer networking and its key role in creating the ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Cisco Houston Description of subject: Cisco Houston was an American folk singer and guitarist known for his close collaboration with Woody Guthrie and his performances of traditional and socially conscious songs.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.