Howell Cobb
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Howell Cobb was a prominent 19th-century American politician from Georgia who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, governor of Georgia, and a leading Confederate official during the Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howell Cobb canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7741000 — 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: Howell Cobb Context triple: [Cobb, Georgia, namedAfter, Howell Cobb]
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A.
Robert Toombs
Robert Toombs was an American politician from Georgia who became a prominent leader of the Confederacy, serving as its first Secretary of State and later as a Confederate general during the Civil War.
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B.
Emory Parnell
Emory Parnell was an American character actor known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century films and early television, often portraying gruff authority figures or comic foils.
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C.
Augustus W. Robins
Augustus W. Robins was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer whose legacy is commemorated in the naming of the city of Warner Robins, Georgia.
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D.
Henry J. Toombs
Henry J. Toombs was an American architect known for designing projects associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
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E.
Asa Tift
Asa Tift was a 19th-century Key West salvager and businessman whose former residence later became the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum.
- 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: Howell Cobb Target entity description: Howell Cobb was a prominent 19th-century American politician from Georgia who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, governor of Georgia, and a leading Confederate official during the Civil War.
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A.
Robert Toombs
Robert Toombs was an American politician from Georgia who became a prominent leader of the Confederacy, serving as its first Secretary of State and later as a Confederate general during the Civil War.
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B.
Emory Parnell
Emory Parnell was an American character actor known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century films and early television, often portraying gruff authority figures or comic foils.
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C.
Augustus W. Robins
Augustus W. Robins was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer whose legacy is commemorated in the naming of the city of Warner Robins, Georgia.
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D.
Henry J. Toombs
Henry J. Toombs was an American architect known for designing projects associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
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E.
Asa Tift
Asa Tift was a 19th-century Key West salvager and businessman whose former residence later became the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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Confederate States of America politician ⓘ human ⓘ slave owner ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1815-09-07 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Jefferson County, Georgia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1868-10-09 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Franklin College
NERFINISHED
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University of Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cobb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Howell Cobb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Howell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
Southern nationalism
ⓘ
pro-slavery ideology ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Confederate States Congress
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Major General NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in the Confederate government
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service as Governor of Georgia ⓘ service as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives ⓘ |
| notableWork | A Scriptural Examination of the Institution of Slavery in the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Civil War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
secession movement of Southern states ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial |
Athens, Georgia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oconee Hill Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Georgia
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Major General in the Confederate States Army ⓘ Member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ President of the Provisional Confederate Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ Speaker of the United States House of Representatives NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Secretary of the Treasury ⓘ |
| precededInOffice | Linn Boyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represented | Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedInCabinetOf | James Buchanan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Ann Lamar Cobb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededInOffice | Linn Boyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasGovernorOf | Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Georgia 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: Howell Cobb Description of subject: Howell Cobb was a prominent 19th-century American politician from Georgia who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, governor of Georgia, and a leading Confederate official during the Civil War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.