Thomas Willis Cobb
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Thomas Willis Cobb was a 19th-century American politician and judge from Georgia who served in the U.S. Congress and on the state’s superior court.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Willis Cobb canonical | 2 |
| Thomas Cobb | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3561252 — 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: Thomas Willis Cobb Context triple: [Cobb County, Georgia, namedAfter, Thomas Willis Cobb]
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A.
Frank Irving Cobb
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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B.
Holmes C. Hartfield
Holmes C. Hartfield is an author known for writing the work titled "A Call for Unity."
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C.
Augustus Wright
Augustus Wright was one of the early New York brokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by participating in the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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D.
Edward Giles Irvin
Edward Giles Irvin was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the original founders of the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi.
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E.
Mordecai Brown
Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
- 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: Thomas Willis Cobb Target entity description: Thomas Willis Cobb was a 19th-century American politician and judge from Georgia who served in the U.S. Congress and on the state’s superior court.
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A.
Frank Irving Cobb
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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B.
Holmes C. Hartfield
Holmes C. Hartfield is an author known for writing the work titled "A Call for Unity."
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C.
Augustus Wright
Augustus Wright was one of the early New York brokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by participating in the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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D.
Edward Giles Irvin
Edward Giles Irvin was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the original founders of the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi.
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E.
Mordecai Brown
Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Thomas Willis Cobb Description of subject: Thomas Willis Cobb was a 19th-century American politician and judge from Georgia who served in the U.S. Congress and on the state’s superior court.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Thomas Willis Cobb