Samuel Cohen
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Samuel Cohen, better known as Sammy Cahn, was an American lyricist renowned for his Academy Award–winning songs and collaborations with artists like Frank Sinatra.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Cohen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2474883 — 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: Samuel Cohen Context triple: [Sammy Cahn, fullName, Samuel Cohen]
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A.
Samuel Baum
Samuel Baum is a television writer and producer best known for creating the crime drama series "Lie to Me."
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B.
Samuel Hoffenstein
Samuel Hoffenstein was an American screenwriter and poet best known for his witty, sophisticated scripts in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Jack Cohn
Jack Cohn was an American film executive and producer who co-founded Columbia Pictures and helped shape the early Hollywood studio system.
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D.
Isaac Horowitz
Isaac Horowitz was a prominent control theorist and engineer known for his influential contributions to feedback control system design and robust control theory.
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E.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
- 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: Samuel Cohen Target entity description: Samuel Cohen, better known as Sammy Cahn, was an American lyricist renowned for his Academy Award–winning songs and collaborations with artists like Frank Sinatra.
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A.
Samuel Baum
Samuel Baum is a television writer and producer best known for creating the crime drama series "Lie to Me."
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B.
Samuel Hoffenstein
Samuel Hoffenstein was an American screenwriter and poet best known for his witty, sophisticated scripts in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Jack Cohn
Jack Cohn was an American film executive and producer who co-founded Columbia Pictures and helped shape the early Hollywood studio system.
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D.
Isaac Horowitz
Isaac Horowitz was a prominent control theorist and engineer known for his influential contributions to feedback control system design and robust control theory.
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E.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Samuel Cohen Description of subject: Samuel Cohen, better known as Sammy Cahn, was an American lyricist renowned for his Academy Award–winning songs and collaborations with artists like Frank Sinatra.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sammy Cahn