Cohan family
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The Cohan family is an American theatrical family best known for producing vaudeville and Broadway star George M. Cohan and several other prominent stage performers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cohan family canonical | 6 |
| Four Cohans | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4253166 — 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: Cohan family Context triple: [Josephine Cohan, notableFamily, Cohan family]
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A.
Cohen family
The Cohen family is a wealthy and influential American family best known for its major investments and business interests, including those overseen by Cohen Private Ventures.
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B.
Lerner family
The Lerner family is a prominent Washington, D.C.–based real estate and business family best known for owning Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals.
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C.
Shubert family
The Shubert family is a prominent American theatrical dynasty that played a central role in developing and controlling much of Broadway’s commercial theater in the 20th century.
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D.
Schine family
The Schine family is an American family known for its extensive ownership and operation of hotels, theaters, and other entertainment-related real estate in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Louis-Dreyfus family
The Louis-Dreyfus family is a prominent French business dynasty best known for its global commodities trading conglomerate and for members such as actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
- 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: Cohan family Target entity description: The Cohan family is an American theatrical family best known for producing vaudeville and Broadway star George M. Cohan and several other prominent stage performers.
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A.
Cohen family
The Cohen family is a wealthy and influential American family best known for its major investments and business interests, including those overseen by Cohen Private Ventures.
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B.
Lerner family
The Lerner family is a prominent Washington, D.C.–based real estate and business family best known for owning Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals.
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C.
Shubert family
The Shubert family is a prominent American theatrical dynasty that played a central role in developing and controlling much of Broadway’s commercial theater in the 20th century.
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D.
Schine family
The Schine family is an American family known for its extensive ownership and operation of hotels, theaters, and other entertainment-related real estate in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Louis-Dreyfus family
The Louis-Dreyfus family is a prominent French business dynasty best known for its global commodities trading conglomerate and for members such as actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American family
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theatrical family ⓘ |
| activeIn |
19th century
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20th century ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| ethnicOrigin | Irish-American ⓘ |
| field |
musical theatre
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theatre ⓘ vaudeville ⓘ |
| genre |
Broadway theatre
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linked to:
Broadway theater
vaudeville ⓘ |
| hasMember |
George M. Cohan
ⓘ
Helen Cohan ⓘ Helen Costigan Cohan ⓘ
linked to:
Helen Cohan
Jeremiah Cohan ⓘ Jerry J. Cohan ⓘ
linked to:
Jerry H. Cohan
Josephine Cohan ⓘ Mary Cohan ⓘ Nellie Cohan ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Broadway productions
ⓘ
song-and-dance performance ⓘ stage acting ⓘ touring vaudeville companies ⓘ |
| memberOf | Cohan family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
producing Broadway performers
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producing George M. Cohan ⓘ producing vaudeville performers ⓘ |
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: Cohan family Description of subject: The Cohan family is an American theatrical family best known for producing vaudeville and Broadway star George M. Cohan and several other prominent stage performers.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.