Cogbill
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Cogbill is a surname most notably associated with American bassist, record producer, and session musician Tommy Cogbill.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cogbill canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11632821 — 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: Cogbill Context triple: [Tommy Cogbill, familyName, Cogbill]
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A.
Herold
Herold is a German-origin surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Burr
Burr is a surname most famously associated with Aaron Burr, the third vice president of the United States who dueled Alexander Hamilton.
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C.
Beckett Cypher
Beckett Cypher was the son of musician Melissa Etheridge and her former partner Julie Cypher, conceived via sperm donation from singer David Crosby.
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D.
Citizen Smith
Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom best known for its portrayal of a would-be revolutionary in late-1970s London.
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E.
Black Jack
Black Jack was the famous nickname of U.S. Army General John J. Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
- 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: Cogbill Target entity description: Cogbill is a surname most notably associated with American bassist, record producer, and session musician Tommy Cogbill.
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A.
Herold
Herold is a German-origin surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Burr
Burr is a surname most famously associated with Aaron Burr, the third vice president of the United States who dueled Alexander Hamilton.
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C.
Beckett Cypher
Beckett Cypher was the son of musician Melissa Etheridge and her former partner Julie Cypher, conceived via sperm donation from singer David Crosby.
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D.
Citizen Smith
Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom best known for its portrayal of a would-be revolutionary in late-1970s London.
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E.
Black Jack
Black Jack was the famous nickname of U.S. Army General John J. Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
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family name ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ session musician ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| familyName | Cogbill ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Tommy Cogbill ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
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: Cogbill Description of subject: Cogbill is a surname most notably associated with American bassist, record producer, and session musician Tommy Cogbill.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Cogbill