Sadie Cohen Youngman
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Sadie Cohen Youngman was the longtime wife of comedian Henny Youngman, frequently referenced in his classic one-liner jokes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sadie Cohen Youngman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13038746 — 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: Sadie Cohen Youngman Context triple: [Henny Youngman, spouse, Sadie Cohen Youngman]
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A.
Sadie Marks
Sadie Marks, better known by her stage name Mary Livingstone, was an American radio comedian and actress famed for her long-running role alongside her husband Jack Benny on The Jack Benny Program.
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B.
Lona Cohen
Lona Cohen was an American-born Soviet spy who, along with her husband Morris Cohen, played a key role in passing atomic and military secrets from the West to the USSR during the Cold War.
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C.
Viva Cohen
Viva Cohen is the daughter of Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen and artist Suzanne Elrod, and the sister of photographer and musician Adam Cohen.
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D.
Sadie Delany
Sadie Delany was an African American educator and civil rights pioneer best known as the co-author of the bestselling memoir "Having Our Say," which chronicled the lives and experiences of her and her sister Bessie over more than a century.
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E.
Sadie Cecelia Annenberg
Sadie Cecelia Annenberg was the mother of American publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg, belonging to the prominent Annenberg family associated with media and charitable endeavors.
- 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: Sadie Cohen Youngman Target entity description: Sadie Cohen Youngman was the longtime wife of comedian Henny Youngman, frequently referenced in his classic one-liner jokes.
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A.
Sadie Marks
Sadie Marks, better known by her stage name Mary Livingstone, was an American radio comedian and actress famed for her long-running role alongside her husband Jack Benny on The Jack Benny Program.
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B.
Lona Cohen
Lona Cohen was an American-born Soviet spy who, along with her husband Morris Cohen, played a key role in passing atomic and military secrets from the West to the USSR during the Cold War.
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C.
Viva Cohen
Viva Cohen is the daughter of Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen and artist Suzanne Elrod, and the sister of photographer and musician Adam Cohen.
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D.
Sadie Delany
Sadie Delany was an African American educator and civil rights pioneer best known as the co-author of the bestselling memoir "Having Our Say," which chronicled the lives and experiences of her and her sister Bessie over more than a century.
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E.
Sadie Cecelia Annenberg
Sadie Cecelia Annenberg was the mother of American publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg, belonging to the prominent Annenberg family associated with media and charitable endeavors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Henny Youngman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| genreOfNotability | stand-up comedy ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Henny Youngman’s classic one-liners ⓘ |
| name | Sadie Cohen Youngman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being frequently referenced in Henny Youngman’s one-liner jokes
ⓘ
being the longtime wife of comedian Henny Youngman ⓘ |
| roleInPopularCulture | comic persona in Henny Youngman’s jokes ⓘ |
| spouse | Henny Youngman 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: Sadie Cohen Youngman Description of subject: Sadie Cohen Youngman was the longtime wife of comedian Henny Youngman, frequently referenced in his classic one-liner jokes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.