Kohan
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Kohan is a surname most prominently associated with American television writer and producer Jenji Kohan, known for creating the series "Weeds" and "Orange Is the New Black."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kohan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5018443 — 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: Kohan Context triple: [Jenji Kohan, familyName, Kohan]
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A.
Saarang
Saarang is the annual cultural festival of IIT Madras, known as one of India’s largest and most prominent college cultural fests featuring music, arts, literary, and performing arts events.
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B.
Khan of Khans
"Khan of Khans" is an exalted imperial title historically used to denote a supreme ruler above other khans, signifying paramount sovereignty and authority.
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C.
Kanyadaan
Kanyadaan is a critically acclaimed Marathi play by Vijay Tendulkar that explores caste, idealism, and the complexities of social reform through a turbulent inter-caste marriage.
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D.
Kwan
Kwan is a Chinese-origin surname shared by many individuals, including the renowned American figure skater Michelle Kwan.
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E.
Khan
Khan is a common surname of Central and South Asian origin historically associated with nobility and leadership, now widely used across Muslim and other communities worldwide.
- 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: Kohan Target entity description: Kohan is a surname most prominently associated with American television writer and producer Jenji Kohan, known for creating the series "Weeds" and "Orange Is the New Black."
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A.
Saarang
Saarang is the annual cultural festival of IIT Madras, known as one of India’s largest and most prominent college cultural fests featuring music, arts, literary, and performing arts events.
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B.
Khan of Khans
"Khan of Khans" is an exalted imperial title historically used to denote a supreme ruler above other khans, signifying paramount sovereignty and authority.
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C.
Kanyadaan
Kanyadaan is a critically acclaimed Marathi play by Vijay Tendulkar that explores caste, idealism, and the complexities of social reform through a turbulent inter-caste marriage.
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D.
Kwan
Kwan is a Chinese-origin surname shared by many individuals, including the renowned American figure skater Michelle Kwan.
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E.
Khan
Khan is a common surname of Central and South Asian origin historically associated with nobility and leadership, now widely used across Muslim and other communities worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ television producer ⓘ television producer ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ television writer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| associatedWith | American television industry ⓘ |
| child |
David Kohan
ⓘ
Jenji Kohan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama television
ⓘ
drama television ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
American television writer Jenji Kohan
ⓘ
linked to:
Jenji Kohan
Buz Kohan ⓘ David Kohan ⓘ Jenji Kohan ⓘ Ronia Tamar Goldberg (Jenji Kohan) ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Orange Is the New Black
ⓘ
Weeds ⓘ |
| occupation |
screenwriter
ⓘ
television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| parent | Buz Kohan ⓘ |
| sibling |
David Kohan
ⓘ
Jenji Kohan ⓘ |
| usedAs | surname in the United States ⓘ |
| variantOf |
Cohen
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Kohanov ⓘ Kohn ⓘ |
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: Kohan Description of subject: Kohan is a surname most prominently associated with American television writer and producer Jenji Kohan, known for creating the series "Weeds" and "Orange Is the New Black."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.