Kogan
E476979
Kogan is a variant form of the Jewish surname Cohen, often arising from transliteration or regional spelling differences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kogan canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4867630 — 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: Kogan Context triple: [Cohen, scriptVariant, Kogan]
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A.
BLU
BLU is the three-letter abbreviation used for the Auckland Blues, a professional rugby union team based in Auckland, New Zealand.
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B.
Sky Store
Sky Store is a digital video-on-demand and movie purchase/rental service operated by the British media and telecommunications company Sky in the UK and Ireland.
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C.
Amazon
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company best known for its vast online marketplace, cloud computing services through AWS, and significant influence on global retail and logistics.
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D.
Carphone Warehouse
Carphone Warehouse is a UK-based mobile phone and telecommunications retailer known for selling handsets, contracts, and related services across high-street stores and online.
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E.
Appin Group
The Appin Group is a sequence of metamorphosed sedimentary rocks in the Scottish Highlands, notable as a key component of the Neoproterozoic stratigraphy of the Dalradian.
- 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: Kogan Target entity description: Kogan is a variant form of the Jewish surname Cohen, often arising from transliteration or regional spelling differences.
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A.
BLU
BLU is the three-letter abbreviation used for the Auckland Blues, a professional rugby union team based in Auckland, New Zealand.
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B.
Sky Store
Sky Store is a digital video-on-demand and movie purchase/rental service operated by the British media and telecommunications company Sky in the UK and Ireland.
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C.
Amazon
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company best known for its vast online marketplace, cloud computing services through AWS, and significant influence on global retail and logistics.
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D.
Carphone Warehouse
Carphone Warehouse is a UK-based mobile phone and telecommunications retailer known for selling handsets, contracts, and related services across high-street stores and online.
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E.
Appin Group
The Appin Group is a sequence of metamorphosed sedimentary rocks in the Scottish Highlands, notable as a key component of the Neoproterozoic stratigraphy of the Dalradian.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish surname
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeForm |
Kagan
ⓘ
Koganov ⓘ Koganovich ⓘ
linked to:
Koganov
Koganovsky ⓘ
linked to:
Koganov
|
| hasAlternativeTransliteration |
Kohgan
ⓘ
Kohganov ⓘ
linked to:
Kohanov
|
| hasCategory | Ashkenazi Jewish surname ⓘ |
| hasEthnicAssociation | Jewish people ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalRoot | Kohen ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfUse |
English
ⓘ
Russian ⓘ Ukrainian ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearersInField |
academia
ⓘ
business ⓘ music ⓘ science ⓘ |
| hasOrigin |
Hebrew language
ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew
|
| hasOriginalScript | Hebrew alphabet ⓘ |
| hasReligiousCulturalAssociation | Judaism ⓘ |
| hasSpellingType | transliterated surname ⓘ |
| hasTypicalScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| isOccupationalSurname | priest ⓘ |
| isRelatedSurname |
Cohen
ⓘ
Kagan ⓘ Kahn ⓘ Koganov ⓘ Kohn ⓘ |
| isTransliterationOf | כֹּהֵן ⓘ |
| meaning | priest ⓘ |
| variantOf | Cohen ⓘ |
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: Kogan Description of subject: Kogan is a variant form of the Jewish surname Cohen, often arising from transliteration or regional spelling differences.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.