Helen Cohan
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Helen Cohan was an American actress and dancer, best known as the daughter of legendary entertainer George M. Cohan and for her appearances in early 20th-century stage and film productions.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Helen Cohan canonical | 2 |
| Helen Costigan Cohan | 2 |
| Helen F. Cohan | 1 |
| Helen Marie Cohan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4253162 — 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: Helen Cohan Context triple: [Josephine Cohan, sibling, Helen Cohan]
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A.
Ruby Hammerstrom
Ruby Hammerstrom was the wife of famed American defense attorney Clarence Darrow, known primarily for her marriage to the prominent lawyer.
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B.
Dorothy Fields
Dorothy Fields was a prominent American lyricist and librettist of the 20th century, celebrated for her witty, sophisticated songs for Broadway and Hollywood musicals.
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C.
E. Y. Harburg
E. Y. Harburg was an American lyricist best known for writing the words to classic songs such as "Over the Rainbow" and other standards of the Golden Age of Hollywood and Broadway.
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D.
Sammy Cahn
Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist renowned for his prolific output of popular standards and multiple Oscar-winning film songs, including classics like "Three Coins in the Fountain" and "All the Way."
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E.
Jerome Kern
Jerome Kern was a pioneering American composer of musical theatre and film scores, best known for classics like "Show Boat" and standards such as "Ol' Man River" and "The Way You Look Tonight."
- 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: Helen Cohan Target entity description: Helen Cohan was an American actress and dancer, best known as the daughter of legendary entertainer George M. Cohan and for her appearances in early 20th-century stage and film productions.
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A.
Ruby Hammerstrom
Ruby Hammerstrom was the wife of famed American defense attorney Clarence Darrow, known primarily for her marriage to the prominent lawyer.
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B.
Dorothy Fields
Dorothy Fields was a prominent American lyricist and librettist of the 20th century, celebrated for her witty, sophisticated songs for Broadway and Hollywood musicals.
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C.
E. Y. Harburg
E. Y. Harburg was an American lyricist best known for writing the words to classic songs such as "Over the Rainbow" and other standards of the Golden Age of Hollywood and Broadway.
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D.
Sammy Cahn
Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist renowned for his prolific output of popular standards and multiple Oscar-winning film songs, including classics like "Three Coins in the Fountain" and "All the Way."
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E.
Jerome Kern
Jerome Kern was a pioneering American composer of musical theatre and film scores, best known for classics like "Show Boat" and standards such as "Ol' Man River" and "The Way You Look Tonight."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
dancer ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndTime | 1930s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartTime | 1920s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1910-09-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1996-09-02 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| father | George M. Cohan ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Agnes Mary Nolan ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Cohan family ⓘ |
| notableRelative | George M. Cohan ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Broadway stage productions
ⓘ
Follies of 1928 ⓘ
linked to:
Ziegfeld Follies
The Phantom President ⓘ early 20th-century film productions ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
dancer ⓘ |
| partOf |
American cinema
ⓘ
American theatre ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling |
Georgette Cohan
ⓘ
Helen Marie Cohan ⓘ
linked to:
Helen Cohan
Mary 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: Helen Cohan Description of subject: Helen Cohan was an American actress and dancer, best known as the daughter of legendary entertainer George M. Cohan and for her appearances in early 20th-century stage and film productions.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Helen Cohan
linked to: Helen Cohan