Jerry H. Cohan
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Jerry H. Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and the patriarch of the Cohan theatrical family, best known as the father of entertainer George M. Cohan.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jerry H. Cohan canonical | 2 |
| Jerry J. Cohan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4253164 — 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: Jerry H. Cohan Context triple: [Josephine Cohan, father, Jerry H. Cohan]
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A.
Steve Cahn
Steve Cahn is the son of renowned American songwriter and lyricist Sammy Cahn.
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B.
Jack Shulman
Jack Shulman is the son of American actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, actor and businessman Adam Shulman.
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C.
Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
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D.
Garson Kanin
Garson Kanin was an American writer and director best known for his work on classic films and Broadway plays, including co-writing the screenplays for "Adam's Rib" and "Born Yesterday."
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E.
Louis Garfinkle
Louis Garfinkle was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed Vietnam War drama film "The Deer Hunter."
- 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: Jerry H. Cohan Target entity description: Jerry H. Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and the patriarch of the Cohan theatrical family, best known as the father of entertainer George M. Cohan.
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A.
Steve Cahn
Steve Cahn is the son of renowned American songwriter and lyricist Sammy Cahn.
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B.
Jack Shulman
Jack Shulman is the son of American actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, actor and businessman Adam Shulman.
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C.
Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
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D.
Garson Kanin
Garson Kanin was an American writer and director best known for his work on classic films and Broadway plays, including co-writing the screenplays for "Adam's Rib" and "Born Yesterday."
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E.
Louis Garfinkle
Louis Garfinkle was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed Vietnam War drama film "The Deer Hunter."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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theatrical producer ⓘ vaudeville performer ⓘ |
| child |
George M. Cohan
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Josephine Cohan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Cohan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | vaudeville ⓘ |
| genre | vaudeville ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Jerry H. Cohan ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Cohan family ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of entertainer George M. Cohan ⓘ |
| notableRole | patriarch of the Cohan theatrical family ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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theatrical producer ⓘ vaudeville performer ⓘ |
| performingArtsDiscipline | theatre ⓘ |
| spouse | Nellie Cohan ⓘ |
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: Jerry H. Cohan Description of subject: Jerry H. Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and the patriarch of the Cohan theatrical family, best known as the father of entertainer George M. Cohan.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jerry H. Cohan