Cousins
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Cousins is a surname most notably associated with Norman Cousins, an American political journalist, author, and peace advocate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cousins canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5208416 — 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: Cousins Context triple: [Norman Cousins, familyName, Cousins]
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A.
Cousins
Cousins is one of the short, conversational vignettes in Jim Jarmusch’s film Coffee and Cigarettes, featuring characters chatting over drinks and smokes in a minimalist, deadpan style.
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B.
Cousins
"Cousins" is a 1989 American romantic comedy film, directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Isabella Rossellini and Ted Danson, about two married people who fall in love after suspecting their spouses of infidelity.
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C.
Sisters
Sisters is a small, scenic city in Central Oregon known for its Western-themed downtown and proximity to outdoor recreation in the Cascade Mountains.
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D.
Sisters
Sisters is a 1972 psychological horror-thriller film by Brian De Palma, known for its Hitchcockian style, split-screen techniques, and story of murderous twin sisters.
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E.
Brothers and Sisters
"Brothers and Sisters" is a 1973 Southern rock album by the Allman Brothers Band, known for hits like "Ramblin' Man" and its role in cementing the group's mainstream success.
- 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: Cousins Target entity description: Cousins is a surname most notably associated with Norman Cousins, an American political journalist, author, and peace advocate.
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A.
Cousins
Cousins is one of the short, conversational vignettes in Jim Jarmusch’s film Coffee and Cigarettes, featuring characters chatting over drinks and smokes in a minimalist, deadpan style.
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B.
Cousins
"Cousins" is a 1989 American romantic comedy film, directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Isabella Rossellini and Ted Danson, about two married people who fall in love after suspecting their spouses of infidelity.
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C.
Sisters
Sisters is a small, scenic city in Central Oregon known for its Western-themed downtown and proximity to outdoor recreation in the Cascade Mountains.
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D.
Sisters
Sisters is a 1972 psychological horror-thriller film by Brian De Palma, known for its Hitchcockian style, split-screen techniques, and story of murderous twin sisters.
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E.
Brothers and Sisters
"Brothers and Sisters" is a 1973 Southern rock album by the Allman Brothers Band, known for hits like "Ramblin' Man" and its role in cementing the group's mainstream success.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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surname ⓘ |
| advocated |
nuclear disarmament
ⓘ
world peace ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Cousins ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
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literature ⓘ peace activism ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Norman ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy for peace
ⓘ
work as an American political journalist ⓘ writings on health and recovery ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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peace advocate ⓘ political journalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | editor-in-chief of Saturday Review ⓘ |
| usedBy | Norman Cousins ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
health
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humanitarian issues ⓘ politics ⓘ |
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: Cousins Description of subject: Cousins is a surname most notably associated with Norman Cousins, an American political journalist, author, and peace advocate.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.