Frank Irving Cobb
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Frank Irving Cobb was an influential American journalist and editor best known for leading the New York World’s editorial page in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frank Irving Cobb canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2151447 — 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: Frank Irving Cobb Context triple: [New York World, employed, Frank Irving Cobb]
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A.
Fred C. Dobbs
Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
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B.
William Eldred Jackson
William Eldred Jackson was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson.
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C.
Henry F. Keyes
Henry F. Keyes was an American architect known for designing the historic Boston Fish Pier in Boston, Massachusetts.
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D.
Henry Ware Lawton
Henry Ware Lawton was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient who served in multiple conflicts, including the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, and ultimately the Philippine–American War, where he was killed in action.
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E.
Frank W. Ferguson
Frank W. Ferguson was an American architect best known as a professional partner of prominent Gothic Revival architect Ralph Adams Cram.
- 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: Frank Irving Cobb Target entity description: Frank Irving Cobb was an influential American journalist and editor best known for leading the New York World’s editorial page in the early 20th century.
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A.
Fred C. Dobbs
Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
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B.
William Eldred Jackson
William Eldred Jackson was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson.
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C.
Henry F. Keyes
Henry F. Keyes was an American architect known for designing the historic Boston Fish Pier in Boston, Massachusetts.
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D.
Henry Ware Lawton
Henry Ware Lawton was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient who served in multiple conflicts, including the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, and ultimately the Philippine–American War, where he was killed in action.
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E.
Frank W. Ferguson
Frank W. Ferguson was an American architect best known as a professional partner of prominent Gothic Revival architect Ralph Adams Cram.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
editor
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | New York World ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Cobb ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
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political commentary ⓘ |
| genre | editorial writing ⓘ |
| givenName | Frank ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading the New York World’s editorial page in the early 20th century ⓘ |
| notableWork | editorials for the New York World ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
newspaper editor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | editorial page editor of the New York World ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Frank Irving Cobb Description of subject: Frank Irving Cobb was an influential American journalist and editor best known for leading the New York World’s editorial page in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.