Sam Cooper
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Sam Cooper is a British builder and decorator best known for his former marriage to singer-songwriter Lily Allen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Cooper canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3996356 — 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: Sam Cooper Context triple: [Lily Allen, spouse, Sam Cooper]
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A.
Cecil Cooper
Cecil Cooper is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and manager, best known for his productive years with the Milwaukee Brewers in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
William Cooper
William Cooper was an Aboriginal Australian activist and Yorta Yorta elder best known for his pioneering political advocacy for Indigenous rights and justice in the early 20th century.
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C.
William Cooper
William Cooper was an American land developer and judge best known as the founder of Cooperstown, New York, and the patriarch of the Cooper family that included novelist James Fenimore Cooper.
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D.
Wyn Cooper
Wyn Cooper is an American poet and songwriter whose poem inspired the lyrics to Sheryl Crow’s hit song “All I Wanna Do.”
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E.
Samuel Cooper
Samuel Cooper was a senior Confederate general who served as the highest-ranking officer and Adjutant and Inspector General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
- 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: Sam Cooper Target entity description: Sam Cooper is a British builder and decorator best known for his former marriage to singer-songwriter Lily Allen.
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A.
Cecil Cooper
Cecil Cooper is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and manager, best known for his productive years with the Milwaukee Brewers in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
William Cooper
William Cooper was an Aboriginal Australian activist and Yorta Yorta elder best known for his pioneering political advocacy for Indigenous rights and justice in the early 20th century.
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C.
William Cooper
William Cooper was an American land developer and judge best known as the founder of Cooperstown, New York, and the patriarch of the Cooper family that included novelist James Fenimore Cooper.
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D.
Wyn Cooper
Wyn Cooper is an American poet and songwriter whose poem inspired the lyrics to Sheryl Crow’s hit song “All I Wanna Do.”
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E.
Samuel Cooper
Samuel Cooper was a senior Confederate general who served as the highest-ranking officer and Adjutant and Inspector General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Lily Allen ⓘ |
| occupation |
builder
ⓘ
decorator ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Lily Allen
ⓘ
Sam Cooper ⓘ |
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: Sam Cooper Description of subject: Sam Cooper is a British builder and decorator best known for his former marriage to singer-songwriter Lily Allen.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.