Richard Cohen
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Richard Cohen is an American businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of the shopping center real estate company Macerich.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Cohen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4602226 — 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: Richard Cohen Context triple: [Macerich, foundedBy, Richard Cohen]
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A.
Frank Rich
Frank Rich is an American essayist and former New York Times theater critic who later became a prominent television producer and creative consultant, notably on acclaimed HBO series.
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B.
Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg is an American journalist and author known for his long-form reporting on foreign policy and national security, and for serving as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
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C.
Andrew Cockburn
Andrew Cockburn is a British-American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and books on national security, military affairs, and U.S. foreign policy.
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D.
James J. Kilpatrick
James J. Kilpatrick was an American newspaper columnist and conservative political commentator best known for his syndicated columns and frequent appearances on television debate programs in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens is an American conservative journalist and columnist known for his incisive political commentary and foreign policy analysis.
- 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: Richard Cohen Target entity description: Richard Cohen is an American businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of the shopping center real estate company Macerich.
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A.
Frank Rich
Frank Rich is an American essayist and former New York Times theater critic who later became a prominent television producer and creative consultant, notably on acclaimed HBO series.
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B.
Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg is an American journalist and author known for his long-form reporting on foreign policy and national security, and for serving as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
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C.
Andrew Cockburn
Andrew Cockburn is a British-American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and books on national security, military affairs, and U.S. foreign policy.
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D.
James J. Kilpatrick
James J. Kilpatrick was an American newspaper columnist and conservative political commentator best known for his syndicated columns and frequent appearances on television debate programs in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens is an American conservative journalist and columnist known for his incisive political commentary and foreign policy analysis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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human ⓘ real estate investment trust ⓘ shopping center company ⓘ |
| businessSector |
retail real estate
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shopping centers ⓘ |
| coFounded | Macerich ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
real estate
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shopping center development ⓘ |
| industry |
commercial real estate
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real estate ⓘ real estate investment ⓘ shopping center ownership and management ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Macerich
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leadership at Macerich ⓘ |
| notableWork | Macerich ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| positionHeld | executive at Macerich ⓘ |
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: Richard Cohen Description of subject: Richard Cohen is an American businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of the shopping center real estate company Macerich.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.