Philip J. Cohen
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Philip J. Cohen was one of the merchants involved in the landmark 1821 U.S. Supreme Court case Cohens v. Virginia, which helped define the Court’s authority to review state court decisions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philip J. Cohen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3704530 — 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: Philip J. Cohen Context triple: [Cohens v. Virginia, petitioner, Philip J. Cohen]
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A.
Ronald M. Cohen
Ronald M. Cohen was an American screenwriter known for his work on politically charged and socially conscious films and television projects.
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B.
Gerson D. Cohen
Gerson D. Cohen was an influential American rabbi and historian who served as chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary and helped shape the direction of Conservative Judaism in the late 20th century.
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C.
Richard N. Gladstein
Richard N. Gladstein is an American film producer known for his work on numerous acclaimed independent and studio films, including collaborations with prominent directors like Quentin Tarantino.
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D.
Edward S. Feldman
Edward S. Feldman is an American film producer known for overseeing a range of notable movies across several decades, including acclaimed dramas and thrillers.
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E.
Melvin Fitting
Melvin Fitting is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential work in automated theorem proving, modal logic, and the foundations of logic in computer science.
- 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: Philip J. Cohen Target entity description: Philip J. Cohen was one of the merchants involved in the landmark 1821 U.S. Supreme Court case Cohens v. Virginia, which helped define the Court’s authority to review state court decisions.
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A.
Ronald M. Cohen
Ronald M. Cohen was an American screenwriter known for his work on politically charged and socially conscious films and television projects.
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B.
Gerson D. Cohen
Gerson D. Cohen was an influential American rabbi and historian who served as chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary and helped shape the direction of Conservative Judaism in the late 20th century.
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C.
Richard N. Gladstein
Richard N. Gladstein is an American film producer known for his work on numerous acclaimed independent and studio films, including collaborations with prominent directors like Quentin Tarantino.
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D.
Edward S. Feldman
Edward S. Feldman is an American film producer known for overseeing a range of notable movies across several decades, including acclaimed dramas and thrillers.
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E.
Melvin Fitting
Melvin Fitting is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential work in automated theorem proving, modal logic, and the foundations of logic in computer science.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical person
ⓘ
merchant ⓘ |
| activity | sale of District of Columbia lottery tickets in Virginia ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
U.S. Supreme Court
ⓘ
linked to:
Supreme Court of the United States
state courts of Virginia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans (inferred) ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Mendes J. Cohen ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | figure in a landmark case defining U.S. Supreme Court appellate jurisdiction over state judgments ⓘ |
| involvedIn | controversy over constitutionality of a Virginia statute restricting lottery ticket sales ⓘ |
| legalCasePosition | defendant in Cohens v. Virginia ⓘ |
| legalContext | Marshall Court era ⓘ |
| legalIssue |
conflict between state law and acts of Congress
ⓘ
federal judicial review of state court decisions ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
U.S. Supreme Court reports of Cohens v. Virginia
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linked to:
United States Reports
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| notableFor | involvement in the U.S. Supreme Court case Cohens v. Virginia ⓘ |
| occupation | merchant ⓘ |
| participantIn | Cohens v. Virginia ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cohen family of merchants
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linked to:
Cohen family
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| placeOfActivity |
District of Columbia
ⓘ
Virginia ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism (inferred from Cohen family background) ⓘ |
| role | merchant involved in lottery ticket sales ⓘ |
| sibling | Mendes J. Cohen ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
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: Philip J. Cohen Description of subject: Philip J. Cohen was one of the merchants involved in the landmark 1821 U.S. Supreme Court case Cohens v. Virginia, which helped define the Court’s authority to review state court decisions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.