Joshua Cohen
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Joshua Cohen is an American political philosopher known for his work on democratic theory, deliberative democracy, and justice, often engaging with and extending the ideas of John Rawls.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joshua Cohen canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T765793 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joshua Cohen Context triple: [John Rawls, influenced, Joshua Cohen]
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A.
David Fleishman
David Fleishman is an American educational administrator known for leading the Newton Public Schools district in Massachusetts.
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B.
Rajiv Joseph
Rajiv Joseph is an American playwright known for his darkly comic, emotionally resonant works such as the Pulitzer Prize–finalist play "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo."
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C.
Eyal Waldman
Eyal Waldman is an Israeli entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of high-performance networking company Mellanox Technologies.
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D.
Evan Susser
Evan Susser is an American comedy writer and screenwriter known for his work on films and television, including co-writing the movie "Fist Fight."
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E.
Bruce Cohen
Bruce Cohen is an American film and television producer best known for his work on acclaimed films such as "American Beauty" and "Silver Linings Playbook."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joshua Cohen Target entity description: Joshua Cohen is an American political philosopher known for his work on democratic theory, deliberative democracy, and justice, often engaging with and extending the ideas of John Rawls.
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A.
David Fleishman
David Fleishman is an American educational administrator known for leading the Newton Public Schools district in Massachusetts.
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B.
Rajiv Joseph
Rajiv Joseph is an American playwright known for his darkly comic, emotionally resonant works such as the Pulitzer Prize–finalist play "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo."
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C.
Eyal Waldman
Eyal Waldman is an Israeli entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of high-performance networking company Mellanox Technologies.
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D.
Evan Susser
Evan Susser is an American comedy writer and screenwriter known for his work on films and television, including co-writing the movie "Fist Fight."
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E.
Bruce Cohen
Bruce Cohen is an American film and television producer best known for his work on acclaimed films such as "American Beauty" and "Silver Linings Playbook."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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person ⓘ political philosopher ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
deliberative democracy
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democratic theory ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ theory of justice ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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philosophy ⓘ political theory ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
philosophy
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political science ⓘ |
| influenced | theory of deliberative democracy ⓘ |
| influencedBy | John Rawls ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
deliberation
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democracy ⓘ equality ⓘ justice ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
deliberative democracy
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egalitarian conception of justice ⓘ proceduralist account of democracy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Associations and Democracy
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On Democracy ⓘ Philosophy, Politics, Democracy ⓘ The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society (Stanford University)
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co-editor of Boston Review ⓘ faculty member at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ faculty member at Stanford University ⓘ faculty member at University of California, Berkeley ⓘ professor of political philosophy ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Joshua Cohen Description of subject: Joshua Cohen is an American political philosopher known for his work on democratic theory, deliberative democracy, and justice, often engaging with and extending the ideas of John Rawls.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.