Geppert
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Geppert is the surname of American singer-songwriter Christopher Cross, known for his soft rock hits like "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Geppert canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5281106 — 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: Geppert Context triple: [Christopher Cross, familyName, Geppert]
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A.
Nortrup
Nortrup is a small municipality in Lower Saxony, Germany, situated within the Artland region.
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B.
Oberholtzer
Oberholtzer is a German-origin surname, often associated with Mennonite and Amish families, that serves as a variant of the Overholt family name.
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C.
Hooperman
Hooperman is an American television dramedy series from the late 1980s starring John Ritter as a San Francisco police inspector balancing his personal and professional life.
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D.
Holt
Holt is a historic market town in the county of Norfolk, England, known for its Georgian architecture and proximity to the North Norfolk coast.
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E.
Hoppe
Hoppe is a German surname most notably associated with Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a libertarian economist and political philosopher.
- 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: Geppert Target entity description: Geppert is the surname of American singer-songwriter Christopher Cross, known for his soft rock hits like "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)."
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A.
Nortrup
Nortrup is a small municipality in Lower Saxony, Germany, situated within the Artland region.
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B.
Oberholtzer
Oberholtzer is a German-origin surname, often associated with Mennonite and Amish families, that serves as a variant of the Overholt family name.
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C.
Hooperman
Hooperman is an American television dramedy series from the late 1980s starring John Ritter as a San Francisco police inspector balancing his personal and professional life.
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D.
Holt
Holt is a historic market town in the county of Norfolk, England, known for its Georgian architecture and proximity to the North Norfolk coast.
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E.
Hoppe
Hoppe is a German surname most notably associated with Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a libertarian economist and political philosopher.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
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human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 1970s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Original Song
NERFINISHED
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Grammy Award for Album of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ Grammy Award for Best New Artist NERFINISHED ⓘ Grammy Award for Record of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ Grammy Award for Song of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Christopher Charles Geppert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-05-03 ⓘ |
| familyName | Geppert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adult contemporary music
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soft rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Christopher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
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vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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German ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAlbum | Christopher Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAwardWork |
Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)
NERFINISHED
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Sailing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)
NERFINISHED
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Ride Like the Wind NERFINISHED ⓘ Sailing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Antonio, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| sameAs | Christopher Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Christopher Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Christopher Charles Geppert
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Christopher Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Geppert Description of subject: Geppert is the surname of American singer-songwriter Christopher Cross, known for his soft rock hits like "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.