Kohn
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Kohn is a surname shared by various notable individuals across fields such as science, arts, and public life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kohn canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5747603 — 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: Kohn Context triple: [Kahn, isRelatedTo, Kohn]
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A.
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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B.
Kahn
Kahn is a surname most famously associated with Louis Kahn, the influential 20th-century architect known for his monumental and timeless modernist buildings.
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C.
Cohn
Cohn is a surname most prominently associated with Harry Cohn, the influential co-founder and longtime head of Columbia Pictures.
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D.
Kuhn
Kuhn is a surname most prominently associated with Bowie Kuhn, the former Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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E.
Kerner
Kerner is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals in politics, arts, and other fields.
- 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: Kohn Target entity description: Kohn is a surname shared by various notable individuals across fields such as science, arts, and public life.
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A.
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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B.
Kahn
Kahn is a surname most famously associated with Louis Kahn, the influential 20th-century architect known for his monumental and timeless modernist buildings.
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C.
Cohn
Cohn is a surname most prominently associated with Harry Cohn, the influential co-founder and longtime head of Columbia Pictures.
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D.
Kuhn
Kuhn is a surname most prominently associated with Bowie Kuhn, the former Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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E.
Kerner
Kerner is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals in politics, arts, and other fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| category |
German-language surnames
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Surnames of Jewish origin ⓘ Yiddish-language surnames ⓘ |
| etymologicallyRelatedTo | Hebrew surname Cohen ⓘ |
| hasEthnicOrigin | Jewish ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Cohen
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Cohn ⓘ Kahn ⓘ Kohen ⓘ |
| isSurnameOf |
Alfred Kohn
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Hans Kohn ⓘ Marek Kohn ⓘ Michael Kohn ⓘ Milan Kohn ⓘ Richard H. Kohn ⓘ Robert D. Kohn ⓘ Stephen Kohn ⓘ Walter Kohn ⓘ Yitzhak Kohn ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
German
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Yiddish ⓘ |
| meaningRelatedTo | priest ⓘ |
| notableBearerField |
architecture
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chemistry ⓘ history ⓘ journalism ⓘ law ⓘ music ⓘ physics ⓘ public life ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| usedAs | surname ⓘ |
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: Kohn Description of subject: Kohn is a surname shared by various notable individuals across fields such as science, arts, and public life.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.