Jelani Cobb
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Jelani Cobb is an American writer, historian, and journalism professor known for his commentary on race, politics, and American history, including his appearance in the documentary "13th."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jelani Cobb canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3130591 — 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: Jelani Cobb Context triple: [13th, featuresInterviewWith, Jelani Cobb]
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A.
Jelani Kilpatrick
Jelani Kilpatrick is known as one of the sons of former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
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B.
Jamal Adeen Thomas
Jamal Adeen Thomas is the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and is known for maintaining a relatively private life outside of his father's public and judicial prominence.
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C.
Jameel Bruner
Jameel Bruner is an American musician and keyboardist, known for his work in the R&B/neo-soul scene and as a former member of the band The Internet.
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D.
Muhammad Wilkerson
Muhammad Wilkerson is an American former NFL defensive end best known for his Pro Bowl tenure with the New York Jets after a standout college career at Temple University.
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E.
Damani Leech
Damani Leech is an American sports executive known for his leadership roles in professional football, including serving as president of the Denver Broncos.
- 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: Jelani Cobb Target entity description: Jelani Cobb is an American writer, historian, and journalism professor known for his commentary on race, politics, and American history, including his appearance in the documentary "13th."
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A.
Jelani Kilpatrick
Jelani Kilpatrick is known as one of the sons of former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
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B.
Jamal Adeen Thomas
Jamal Adeen Thomas is the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and is known for maintaining a relatively private life outside of his father's public and judicial prominence.
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C.
Jameel Bruner
Jameel Bruner is an American musician and keyboardist, known for his work in the R&B/neo-soul scene and as a former member of the band The Internet.
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D.
Muhammad Wilkerson
Muhammad Wilkerson is an American former NFL defensive end best known for his Pro Bowl tenure with the New York Jets after a standout college career at Temple University.
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E.
Damani Leech
Damani Leech is an American sports executive known for his leadership roles in professional football, including serving as president of the Denver Broncos.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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historian ⓘ human ⓘ journalism professor ⓘ journalist ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts
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Doctor of Philosophy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Howard University
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Rutgers University ⓘ |
| employer |
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
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surface form:
Columbia Journalism School
Columbia University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African Americans
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| fieldOfWork |
African-American history
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American history ⓘ journalism ⓘ politics ⓘ race relations ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
historical writing
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non-fiction ⓘ political commentary ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
U.S. presidential politics
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civil rights ⓘ criminal justice ⓘ policing in the United States ⓘ voting rights ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commentary on American history
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commentary on American politics ⓘ commentary on race ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Devil & Dave Chappelle and Other Essays
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The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress ⓘ To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic ⓘ |
| occupation |
historian
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journalism professor ⓘ journalist ⓘ public intellectual ⓘ staff writer at The New Yorker ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| participantIn | documentary film 13th ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Dean of Columbia Journalism School
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Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| writesFor | The New Yorker ⓘ |
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: Jelani Cobb Description of subject: Jelani Cobb is an American writer, historian, and journalism professor known for his commentary on race, politics, and American history, including his appearance in the documentary "13th."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
13th