Eric Bobo
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Eric Bobo is an American percussionist best known for his work with the hip hop group Cypress Hill and his dynamic, Latin-influenced drumming style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric Bobo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9198557 — 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: Eric Bobo Context triple: [Cypress Hill, member, Eric Bobo]
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A.
Kofi Jamar
Kofi Jamar is a Ghanaian rapper, singer, and songwriter known for his blend of hip hop, Afrobeat, and drill music.
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B.
Sam Bockarie
Sam Bockarie was a notorious Sierra Leonean rebel commander and key leader of the Revolutionary United Front, implicated in extensive war crimes and atrocities during the country's civil conflict.
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C.
Sekou Conneh
Sekou Conneh is a Liberian rebel leader best known for heading the LURD insurgent group during the country’s civil conflict.
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D.
Kofi Burbridge
Kofi Burbridge was an American multi-instrumentalist and composer best known as the longtime keyboardist and flutist for the Tedeschi Trucks Band and the Derek Trucks Band.
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E.
Leon Pendarvis
Leon Pendarvis is an American keyboardist, composer, and music director best known for his long-running work with the Saturday Night Live Band and extensive session and production credits.
- 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: Eric Bobo Target entity description: Eric Bobo is an American percussionist best known for his work with the hip hop group Cypress Hill and his dynamic, Latin-influenced drumming style.
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A.
Kofi Jamar
Kofi Jamar is a Ghanaian rapper, singer, and songwriter known for his blend of hip hop, Afrobeat, and drill music.
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B.
Sam Bockarie
Sam Bockarie was a notorious Sierra Leonean rebel commander and key leader of the Revolutionary United Front, implicated in extensive war crimes and atrocities during the country's civil conflict.
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C.
Sekou Conneh
Sekou Conneh is a Liberian rebel leader best known for heading the LURD insurgent group during the country’s civil conflict.
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D.
Kofi Burbridge
Kofi Burbridge was an American multi-instrumentalist and composer best known as the longtime keyboardist and flutist for the Tedeschi Trucks Band and the Derek Trucks Band.
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E.
Leon Pendarvis
Leon Pendarvis is an American keyboardist, composer, and music director best known for his long-running work with the Saturday Night Live Band and extensive session and production credits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American percussionist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ percussionist ⓘ |
| activeIn | music industry ⓘ |
| activeSince | late 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Beastie Boys
NERFINISHED
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Cypress Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Psycho Realm NERFINISHED ⓘ Ritmo Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ Slightly Stoopid NERFINISHED ⓘ Snoop Dogg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| birthName | Eric Correa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Beastie Boys
NERFINISHED
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Cypress Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ various hip hop artists ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
Latin music
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funk ⓘ hip hop ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasEthnicBackground | Latin American descent ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Latin percussion ⓘ |
| instrument |
congas
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drums ⓘ percussion ⓘ timbales ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Cypress Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Eric Bobo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Latin-influenced drumming style
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work with Cypress Hill ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
percussionist ⓘ |
| parent | Willie Bobo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performingRole | touring percussionist for Beastie Boys ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| style |
Latin-influenced drumming
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dynamic percussion ⓘ |
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: Eric Bobo Description of subject: Eric Bobo is an American percussionist best known for his work with the hip hop group Cypress Hill and his dynamic, Latin-influenced drumming style.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.