Norman Atwater Cocke
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Norman Atwater Cocke was a prominent Duke Power Company executive after whom North Carolina’s Lake Norman was named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Norman Atwater Cocke canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6234394 — 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: Norman Atwater Cocke Context triple: [Lake Norman, namedAfter, Norman Atwater Cocke]
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A.
Cecil H. Underwood
Cecil H. Underwood was an American naturalist and field collector known for his extensive work on the mammals and birds of Central America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
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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C.
Henry N. Parsley Jr.
Henry N. Parsley Jr. is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Episcopal Church and his tenure guiding the Diocese of Alabama.
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D.
Holland M. Smith
Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
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E.
Lofton R. Henderson
Lofton R. Henderson was a U.S. Marine Corps aviator and squadron commander killed during the Battle of Midway in World War II, remembered for his leadership and sacrifice in one of the war’s pivotal engagements.
- 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: Norman Atwater Cocke Target entity description: Norman Atwater Cocke was a prominent Duke Power Company executive after whom North Carolina’s Lake Norman was named.
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A.
Cecil H. Underwood
Cecil H. Underwood was an American naturalist and field collector known for his extensive work on the mammals and birds of Central America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
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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C.
Henry N. Parsley Jr.
Henry N. Parsley Jr. is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Episcopal Church and his tenure guiding the Diocese of Alabama.
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D.
Holland M. Smith
Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
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E.
Lofton R. Henderson
Lofton R. Henderson was a U.S. Marine Corps aviator and squadron commander killed during the Battle of Midway in World War II, remembered for his leadership and sacrifice in one of the war’s pivotal engagements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
ⓘ
person ⓘ reservoir ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Duke Power Company ⓘ |
| hasNamesake | Lake Norman ⓘ |
| locatedIn | North Carolina ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Norman Atwater Cocke ⓘ |
| notableFor | having Lake Norman in North Carolina named after him ⓘ |
| operator | Duke Power Company ⓘ |
| positionHeld | executive at Duke Power Company ⓘ |
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: Norman Atwater Cocke Description of subject: Norman Atwater Cocke was a prominent Duke Power Company executive after whom North Carolina’s Lake Norman was named.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Norman Atwater Cocke