Thomas Clark Cogbill
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Thomas Clark Cogbill, better known as Tommy Cogbill, was an influential American bassist, guitarist, and record producer renowned for his work on numerous soul, R&B, and pop recordings in the 1960s and 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Clark Cogbill canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11632819 — 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 Clark Cogbill Context triple: [Tommy Cogbill, fullName, Thomas Clark Cogbill]
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A.
George Jacobs Jr.
George Jacobs Jr. was a member of the Jacobs family involved in the Salem witch trials of 1692, known primarily as the son of accused witch George Jacobs Sr.
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B.
Graydon Earl Comstock Jr.
Graydon Earl Comstock Jr. is a federal criminal defendant whose challenge to post-sentence civil commitment of certain sex offenders led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Comstock.
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C.
William Rainolds
William Rainolds was an English Roman Catholic priest and theologian of the late 16th century, known for his involvement in religious controversies during the Reformation era.
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D.
Hugh Franklin
Hugh Franklin was a British suffragist and political activist known for his militant campaigning for women's voting rights in the early 20th century.
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E.
Joel Sayre
Joel Sayre was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1939 adventure film "Gunga Din."
- 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 Clark Cogbill Target entity description: Thomas Clark Cogbill, better known as Tommy Cogbill, was an influential American bassist, guitarist, and record producer renowned for his work on numerous soul, R&B, and pop recordings in the 1960s and 1970s.
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A.
George Jacobs Jr.
George Jacobs Jr. was a member of the Jacobs family involved in the Salem witch trials of 1692, known primarily as the son of accused witch George Jacobs Sr.
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B.
Graydon Earl Comstock Jr.
Graydon Earl Comstock Jr. is a federal criminal defendant whose challenge to post-sentence civil commitment of certain sex offenders led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Comstock.
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C.
William Rainolds
William Rainolds was an English Roman Catholic priest and theologian of the late 16th century, known for his involvement in religious controversies during the Reformation era.
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D.
Hugh Franklin
Hugh Franklin was a British suffragist and political activist known for his militant campaigning for women's voting rights in the early 20th century.
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E.
Joel Sayre
Joel Sayre was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1939 adventure film "Gunga Din."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American musician
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bassist ⓘ guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Tommy Cogbill ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
record production
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studio session performance ⓘ |
| genre |
pop music
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rhythm and blues ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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guitar ⓘ |
| name | Thomas Clark Cogbill ⓘ |
| notability |
influential American bassist
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renowned session musician ⓘ |
| notableWork |
session work on R&B recordings in the 1960s
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session work on pop recordings in the 1960s ⓘ session work on soul recordings in the 1960s ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
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guitarist ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Clark Cogbill Description of subject: Thomas Clark Cogbill, better known as Tommy Cogbill, was an influential American bassist, guitarist, and record producer renowned for his work on numerous soul, R&B, and pop recordings in the 1960s and 1970s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.