Elizabeth Cohen
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Elizabeth Cohen is the former wife of American actor Paul Giamatti, known for maintaining a largely private life outside of his public career.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elisabeth Cohen | 2 |
| Elizabeth Cohen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2783071 — 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: Elizabeth Cohen Context triple: [Paul Giamatti, spouse, Elizabeth Cohen]
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A.
Rachel Elkind
Rachel Elkind is an American music producer and composer best known for her eerie electronic score work with Wendy Carlos, including their influential soundtrack contributions to Stanley Kubrick’s film "The Shining."
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B.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
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C.
Paula Ellis
Paula Ellis is known as the former wife of acclaimed American actor Rod Steiger.
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D.
Elizabeth Dowdeswell
Elizabeth Dowdeswell is a Canadian public servant and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations who has served as the 29th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
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E.
Deborah Hitchborn
Deborah Hitchborn was a colonial-era Bostonian and the mother of American patriot and silversmith Paul Revere.
- 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: Elizabeth Cohen Target entity description: Elizabeth Cohen is the former wife of American actor Paul Giamatti, known for maintaining a largely private life outside of his public career.
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A.
Rachel Elkind
Rachel Elkind is an American music producer and composer best known for her eerie electronic score work with Wendy Carlos, including their influential soundtrack contributions to Stanley Kubrick’s film "The Shining."
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B.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
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C.
Paula Ellis
Paula Ellis is known as the former wife of acclaimed American actor Rod Steiger.
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D.
Elizabeth Dowdeswell
Elizabeth Dowdeswell is a Canadian public servant and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations who has served as the 29th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
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E.
Deborah Hitchborn
Deborah Hitchborn was a colonial-era Bostonian and the mother of American patriot and silversmith Paul Revere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | unknown ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | unknown ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced from Paul Giamatti ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the former wife of Paul Giamatti ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | unknown ⓘ |
| privacy | maintains a largely private life ⓘ |
| spouse | Paul Giamatti ⓘ |
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: Elizabeth Cohen Description of subject: Elizabeth Cohen is the former wife of American actor Paul Giamatti, known for maintaining a largely private life outside of his public career.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Elizabeth Cohen
linked to: Elizabeth Cohen