John Cohen
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John Cohen was an American musician, photographer, and folklorist best known for co-founding the influential old-time string band The New Lost City Ramblers and documenting traditional American music and culture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Cohen canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4452365 — 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: John Cohen Context triple: [The New Lost City Ramblers, member, John Cohen]
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A.
Jon Cohen
Jon Cohen is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Minority Report."
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B.
Jake Cohen
Jake Cohen is known primarily as the son of Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to Donald Trump.
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C.
Rob Cohen
Rob Cohen is an American film director and producer best known for helming high-profile action and adventure movies such as "The Fast and the Furious" and "xXx."
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D.
Job Cohen
Job Cohen is a Dutch politician and former Mayor of Amsterdam who led the Labour Party (PvdA) and briefly served as a prominent national opposition leader.
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E.
Joel Cohen
Joel Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of Pixar's landmark animated film "Toy Story."
- 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: John Cohen Target entity description: John Cohen was an American musician, photographer, and folklorist best known for co-founding the influential old-time string band The New Lost City Ramblers and documenting traditional American music and culture.
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A.
Jon Cohen
Jon Cohen is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Minority Report."
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B.
Jake Cohen
Jake Cohen is known primarily as the son of Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to Donald Trump.
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C.
Rob Cohen
Rob Cohen is an American film director and producer best known for helming high-profile action and adventure movies such as "The Fast and the Furious" and "xXx."
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D.
Job Cohen
Job Cohen is a Dutch politician and former Mayor of Amsterdam who led the Labour Party (PvdA) and briefly served as a prominent national opposition leader.
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E.
Joel Cohen
Joel Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of Pixar's landmark animated film "Toy Story."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
documentary filmmaker
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folklorist ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ musicologist ⓘ old-time string band ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | The New Lost City Ramblers ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-08-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2019-09-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName |
Cohen
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Seeger ⓘ
linked to:
Mike Seeger
|
| fieldOfWork |
American folk culture
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ethnomusicology ⓘ traditional American music ⓘ |
| genre |
bluegrass music
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folk music ⓘ old-time music ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| instrument |
banjo
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guitar ⓘ mandolin ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The New Lost City Ramblers ⓘ |
| name | John Cohen ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
documenting traditional American music and culture
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films about traditional music ⓘ photographic documentation of folk musicians ⓘ recordings of old-time musicians ⓘ |
| occupation |
filmmaker
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folklorist ⓘ musician ⓘ musicologist ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
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New York City ⓘ Queens, New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York
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Putnam Valley, New York ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| relative | Pete Seeger ⓘ |
| residence | Putnam Valley, New York ⓘ |
| spouse |
Penny Seeger
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linked to:
Toshi-Aline Ohta Seeger
|
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: John Cohen Description of subject: John Cohen was an American musician, photographer, and folklorist best known for co-founding the influential old-time string band The New Lost City Ramblers and documenting traditional American music and culture.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.