Jeff Cohen
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American Jew
American child actor
American film actor
entertainment lawyer
former child actor
human
lawyer
Jeff Cohen is an American former child actor best known for playing the lovable, clumsy character Chunk in the 1985 adventure film "The Goonies."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeff Cohen canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11049996 — 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: Jeff Cohen Context triple: [The Goonies, leadActor, Jeff Cohen]
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A.
Jeffrey Cohen
Jeffrey Cohen is a songwriter best known for co-writing the theme song to the James Bond film "Licence to Kill."
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B.
Jake Cohen
Jake Cohen is known primarily as the son of Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to Donald Trump.
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C.
Bruce Cohen
Bruce Cohen is an American film and television producer best known for his work on acclaimed films such as "American Beauty" and "Silver Linings Playbook."
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D.
Brad Cohen
Brad Cohen is an American physician and politician who serves as the mayor of East Brunswick, New Jersey.
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E.
Jon Cohen
Jon Cohen is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Minority Report."
- 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: Jeff Cohen Target entity description: Jeff Cohen is an American former child actor best known for playing the lovable, clumsy character Chunk in the 1985 adventure film "The Goonies."
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A.
Jeffrey Cohen
Jeffrey Cohen is a songwriter best known for co-writing the theme song to the James Bond film "Licence to Kill."
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B.
Jake Cohen
Jake Cohen is known primarily as the son of Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to Donald Trump.
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C.
Bruce Cohen
Bruce Cohen is an American film and television producer best known for his work on acclaimed films such as "American Beauty" and "Silver Linings Playbook."
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D.
Brad Cohen
Brad Cohen is an American physician and politician who serves as the mayor of East Brunswick, New Jersey.
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E.
Jon Cohen
Jon Cohen is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Minority Report."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Jew
ⓘ
American child actor ⓘ American film actor ⓘ entertainment lawyer ⓘ former child actor ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
UCLA School of Law
ⓘ
University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer | Cohen & Gardner LLP ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
entertainment law
ⓘ
film acting ⓘ |
| genre | film ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeff ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| hasFanBaseIn | The Goonies fandom ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | American popular culture of the 1980s ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
ⓘ
legal services industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing Chunk in The Goonies ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Jeff Cohen ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Chunk
ⓘ
Lawrence "Chunk" Cohen ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Goonies ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ lawyer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn | The Goonies ⓘ |
| positionHeld | co-founder of Cohen & Gardner LLP ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spokeAt | entertainment industry legal conferences ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
interviews about The Goonies
ⓘ
retrospectives on child actors ⓘ |
| typeOfRepresentation | talent representation and entertainment law services ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| wrote | articles on entertainment law ⓘ |
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: Jeff Cohen Description of subject: Jeff Cohen is an American former child actor best known for playing the lovable, clumsy character Chunk in the 1985 adventure film "The Goonies."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.