Cohn
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American film production company
family name
film executive
film producer
film studio
historian
human
lawyer
surname
Cohn is a surname most prominently associated with Harry Cohn, the influential co-founder and longtime head of Columbia Pictures.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4708962 — 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: Cohn Context triple: [Harry Cohn, familyName, Cohn]
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A.
Cohen
Cohen is a common Jewish surname of Hebrew origin historically associated with priestly lineage.
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B.
Cohen-Kagan
Cohen-Kagan is a Hebrew-language surname most notably borne by Israeli politician and women's rights activist Rachel Cohen-Kagan.
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C.
Cosey
Cosey is a surname most notably associated with the character Bill Cosey from Toni Morrison’s novel "Love."
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D.
Coe
Coe is a surname most prominently associated with Sebastian Coe, the British middle-distance running champion and influential sports administrator.
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E.
Cunningham
Cunningham is a common Scottish surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as technology, politics, sports, and the arts.
- 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: Cohn Target entity description: Cohn is a surname most prominently associated with Harry Cohn, the influential co-founder and longtime head of Columbia Pictures.
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A.
Cohen
Cohen is a common Jewish surname of Hebrew origin historically associated with priestly lineage.
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B.
Cohen-Kagan
Cohen-Kagan is a Hebrew-language surname most notably borne by Israeli politician and women's rights activist Rachel Cohen-Kagan.
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C.
Cosey
Cosey is a surname most notably associated with the character Bill Cosey from Toni Morrison’s novel "Love."
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D.
Coe
Coe is a surname most prominently associated with Sebastian Coe, the British middle-distance running champion and influential sports administrator.
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E.
Cunningham
Cunningham is a common Scottish surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as technology, politics, sports, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film production company
ⓘ
family name ⓘ film executive ⓘ film producer ⓘ film producer ⓘ film studio ⓘ historian ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| coFounded | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Switzerland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1891-07-23
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1927-02-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1958-02-27 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Jewish ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
German-language surnames
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Surnames of Jewish origin ⓘ Yiddish-language surnames ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson | Harry Cohn ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
German
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Hebrew ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | priest (Jewish surname derived from Hebrew "kohen") ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Arthur Cohn
ⓘ
Harry Cohn ⓘ Norman Cohn ⓘ Roy Cohn ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| notableFor | role as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Phoenix, Arizona ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
head of production at Columbia Pictures
ⓘ
president of Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| usedBy | Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ |
| variantOf |
Cohen
ⓘ
Kohn ⓘ |
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: Cohn Description of subject: Cohn is a surname most prominently associated with Harry Cohn, the influential co-founder and longtime head of Columbia Pictures.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cohn