Richard M. Cohen
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Richard M. Cohen is an American journalist, author, and television news producer known for his work at major networks and for writing candidly about living with multiple sclerosis and chronic illness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard M. Cohen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12810761 — 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 M. Cohen Context triple: [Meredith Vieira, spouse, Richard M. Cohen]
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A.
Ronald M. Cohen
Ronald M. Cohen was an American screenwriter known for his work on politically charged and socially conscious films and television projects.
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B.
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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C.
David Rosenblum
David Rosenblum is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential research in software engineering and formal methods.
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D.
Lawrence D. Cohen
Lawrence D. Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for adapting Stephen King's works, including the original film version of "Carrie" and the 1990 television miniseries "It."
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E.
Philip J. Cohen
Philip J. Cohen was one of the merchants involved in the landmark 1821 U.S. Supreme Court case Cohens v. Virginia, which helped define the Court’s authority to review state court decisions.
- 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 M. Cohen Target entity description: Richard M. Cohen is an American journalist, author, and television news producer known for his work at major networks and for writing candidly about living with multiple sclerosis and chronic illness.
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A.
Ronald M. Cohen
Ronald M. Cohen was an American screenwriter known for his work on politically charged and socially conscious films and television projects.
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B.
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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C.
David Rosenblum
David Rosenblum is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential research in software engineering and formal methods.
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D.
Lawrence D. Cohen
Lawrence D. Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for adapting Stephen King's works, including the original film version of "Carrie" and the 1990 television miniseries "It."
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E.
Philip J. Cohen
Philip J. Cohen was one of the merchants involved in the landmark 1821 U.S. Supreme Court case Cohens v. Virginia, which helped define the Court’s authority to review state court decisions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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journalist ⓘ person ⓘ television news producer ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Emmy Award ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-02-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
CBS News
NERFINISHED
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CNN NERFINISHED ⓘ PBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical writing
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memoir ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Benjamin Edwin Cohen
NERFINISHED
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Gabriel Anthony Cohen NERFINISHED ⓘ Lily Max Cohen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasParticularPerspectiveOn |
coping with serious illness
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impact of illness on family life ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
chronic disease
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disability ⓘ patient advocacy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
writing about chronic illness
ⓘ
writing about living with multiple sclerosis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medicalCondition |
colon cancer
ⓘ
melanoma ⓘ multiple sclerosis ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chasing Hope: A Patient’s Deep Dive into Stem Cells, Faith, and the Future NERFINISHED ⓘ I Want to Kill the Dog NERFINISHED ⓘ Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
executive producer of CBS News Sunday Morning
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producer at PBS ⓘ senior producer at CBS News ⓘ senior producer at CNN ⓘ senior producer for CBS Evening News ⓘ |
| residence | New York metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Meredith Vieira NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 M. Cohen Description of subject: Richard M. Cohen is an American journalist, author, and television news producer known for his work at major networks and for writing candidly about living with multiple sclerosis and chronic illness.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.