G. A. Cohen
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G. A. Cohen was a Canadian-born political philosopher known for his rigorous analytical approach to Marxism and influential work on egalitarian justice.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| G. A. Cohen canonical | 10 |
| G.A. Cohen | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3062653 — 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: G. A. Cohen Context triple: [Analytical Marxism, associatedWith, G. A. Cohen]
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A.
Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer is an American political theorist best known for his work on justice, war, and ethics, particularly in his influential book "Just and Unjust Wars."
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Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams was a prominent 20th-century British moral philosopher known for his critiques of utilitarianism and moral theory, his emphasis on the complexity of ethical life, and his influential work on integrity, moral luck, and the history of philosophy.
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C.
Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams was a British film producer known for his work on notable movies such as "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and other major studio productions.
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D.
Ronald Dworkin
Ronald Dworkin was a prominent American legal and political philosopher known for his theory of law as integrity and his influential work on rights, equality, and constitutional interpretation.
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E.
I. Bernard Cohen
I. Bernard Cohen was a prominent American historian of science best known for his influential scholarship on Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution.
- 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: G. A. Cohen Target entity description: G. A. Cohen was a Canadian-born political philosopher known for his rigorous analytical approach to Marxism and influential work on egalitarian justice.
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A.
Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer is an American political theorist best known for his work on justice, war, and ethics, particularly in his influential book "Just and Unjust Wars."
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B.
Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams was a prominent 20th-century British moral philosopher known for his critiques of utilitarianism and moral theory, his emphasis on the complexity of ethical life, and his influential work on integrity, moral luck, and the history of philosophy.
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C.
Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams was a British film producer known for his work on notable movies such as "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and other major studio productions.
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D.
Ronald Dworkin
Ronald Dworkin was a prominent American legal and political philosopher known for his theory of law as integrity and his influential work on rights, equality, and constitutional interpretation.
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E.
I. Bernard Cohen
I. Bernard Cohen was a prominent American historian of science best known for his influential scholarship on Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: G. A. Cohen Description of subject: G. A. Cohen was a Canadian-born political philosopher known for his rigorous analytical approach to Marxism and influential work on egalitarian justice.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: G. A. Cohen