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Thomas Cobb (director)

Television director and editor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2023
Entity authorityQ19560261 ↗
Source-derived summary

Thomas Cobb is an American director, editor, compositor, and cinematographer who directed the opening credit sequence for "Orange Is the New Black".

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Thomas Cobb (director)” is television director and editor. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Thomas, Cobb and director, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current 22-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. For this dossier, Thomas, Cobb and director is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “television director and editor” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 23, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q19560261. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Thomas Cobb (director)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.