Cosby
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Cosby is an American sitcom that aired in the late 1990s and early 2000s, starring Bill Cosby as a retired airline worker navigating family and everyday life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cosby canonical | 2 |
| Cosby (TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10416714 — 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: Cosby Context triple: [Jason Fuchs, actedIn, Cosby]
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A.
Cosby
Cosby is a surname most prominently associated with American comedian and actor Bill Cosby and his family.
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B.
Ennis Cosby
Ennis Cosby was the son of comedian Bill Cosby and academic Camille Cosby, known publicly for his tragic murder in 1997 while studying to become a special education teacher.
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C.
Ensa Cosby
Ensa Cosby was one of Bill and Camille Cosby’s daughters, known publicly largely due to her connection to the prominent entertainer family and her occasional defense of her father during his legal controversies.
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D.
The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show is a landmark American sitcom that aired in the 1980s and early 1990s, portraying an upper-middle-class African American family and significantly influencing television representation and culture.
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E.
Henry Cosby
Henry Cosby was an American songwriter and record producer best known for his influential work at Motown Records, where he co-wrote and produced numerous hits for artists like Stevie Wonder.
- 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: Cosby Target entity description: Cosby is an American sitcom that aired in the late 1990s and early 2000s, starring Bill Cosby as a retired airline worker navigating family and everyday life.
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A.
Cosby
Cosby is a surname most prominently associated with American comedian and actor Bill Cosby and his family.
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B.
Ennis Cosby
Ennis Cosby was the son of comedian Bill Cosby and academic Camille Cosby, known publicly for his tragic murder in 1997 while studying to become a special education teacher.
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C.
Ensa Cosby
Ensa Cosby was one of Bill and Camille Cosby’s daughters, known publicly largely due to her connection to the prominent entertainer family and her occasional defense of her father during his legal controversies.
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D.
The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show is a landmark American sitcom that aired in the 1980s and early 1990s, portraying an upper-middle-class African American family and significantly influencing television representation and culture.
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E.
Henry Cosby
Henry Cosby was an American songwriter and record producer best known for his influential work at Motown Records, where he co-wrote and produced numerous hits for artists like Stevie Wonder.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| airedInDecade |
1990s
ⓘ
2000s ⓘ |
| audioFormat | stereo ⓘ |
| basedOn | British sitcom One Foot in the Grave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | half-hour comedy series ⓘ |
| character |
Ernesto
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Griffin Vesey NERFINISHED ⓘ Jurnee NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Lucas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator |
Mort Lachman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sy Rosen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Carsey-Werner Distribution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
Bill Cosby
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mort Lachman NERFINISHED ⓘ Sy Rosen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingStyle | multi-camera ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1996-09-16 ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| lastAired | 2000-04-28 ⓘ |
| leadCharacterOccupation | retired airline worker ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Hilton Lucas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 96 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 4 ⓘ |
| openingTheme | “So What” by Miles Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| pictureFormat |
NTSC color television standard
ⓘ
surface form:
NTSC
|
| portrayedBy |
Bill Cosby
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Doug E. Doug NERFINISHED ⓘ Phylicia Rashad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Carsey-Werner Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork | The Cosby Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Queens, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Bill Cosby
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Doug E. Doug NERFINISHED ⓘ Madeline Kahn NERFINISHED ⓘ Phylicia Rashad NERFINISHED ⓘ Rita Moreno NERFINISHED ⓘ T’Keyah Crystal Keymáh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | family audience ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Cosby Description of subject: Cosby is an American sitcom that aired in the late 1990s and early 2000s, starring Bill Cosby as a retired airline worker navigating family and everyday life.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cosby (TV series)