Gene Cotton
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Gene Cotton is an American soft rock singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for his 1970s and early 1980s chart hits and collaborations with artists like Kim Carnes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gene Cotton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T953725 — 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.
Target entity: Gene Cotton Context triple: [Kim Carnes, associatedAct, Gene Cotton]
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Cecil Reed
Cecil Reed was a party in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reed v. Reed, which for the first time held that laws discriminating on the basis of sex violated the Equal Protection Clause.
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Rogers Morton
Rogers Morton was an American Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior and later Secretary of Commerce in the 1970s.
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Johnny Hodges
Johnny Hodges was a renowned American alto saxophonist best known for his long tenure as a featured soloist in the Duke Ellington Orchestra, where his lyrical, blues-inflected style became a defining sound of the band.
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Lee Collins
Lee Collins is a computer scientist and software engineer best known as one of the co-founders of the Unicode Consortium, which standardizes text representation across digital systems worldwide.
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George Kelly Barnes
George Kelly Barnes, better known as "Machine Gun Kelly," was a notorious American gangster and bootlegger of the Prohibition era, infamous for high-profile kidnappings and his reputation as a machine gun–wielding criminal.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Gene Cotton Target entity description: Gene Cotton is an American soft rock singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for his 1970s and early 1980s chart hits and collaborations with artists like Kim Carnes.
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A.
Cecil Reed
Cecil Reed was a party in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reed v. Reed, which for the first time held that laws discriminating on the basis of sex violated the Equal Protection Clause.
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B.
Rogers Morton
Rogers Morton was an American Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior and later Secretary of Commerce in the 1970s.
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C.
Johnny Hodges
Johnny Hodges was a renowned American alto saxophonist best known for his long tenure as a featured soloist in the Duke Ellington Orchestra, where his lyrical, blues-inflected style became a defining sound of the band.
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D.
Lee Collins
Lee Collins is a computer scientist and software engineer best known as one of the co-founders of the Unicode Consortium, which standardizes text representation across digital systems worldwide.
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E.
George Kelly Barnes
George Kelly Barnes, better known as "Machine Gun Kelly," was a notorious American gangster and bootlegger of the Prohibition era, infamous for high-profile kidnappings and his reputation as a machine gun–wielding criminal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
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human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ |
| basedIn | Tennessee ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Kim Carnes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | soft rock ⓘ |
| hasCreativePartner | Kim Carnes ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
adult contemporary music
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pop rock ⓘ |
| hasInstrument | guitar ⓘ |
| hasMusicalRole |
lead vocals
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rhythm guitar ⓘ |
| hasPart | backing band ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
1970s chart hits
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early 1980s chart hits ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Before My Heart Finds Out
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Let Your Love Flow (cover version) ⓘ Like a Sunday in Salem (The Amos & Andy Song) ⓘ Save the Dancer ⓘ You Got Me Runnin' ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| workPeriodStart | 1970 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Gene Cotton Description of subject: Gene Cotton is an American soft rock singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for his 1970s and early 1980s chart hits and collaborations with artists like Kim Carnes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.