David Kohan
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David Kohan is an American television producer and writer best known as the co-creator of the hit sitcom "Will & Grace."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Kohan canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5018466 — 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: David Kohan Context triple: [Jenji Kohan, sibling, David Kohan]
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A.
Jerry Cohan
Jerry Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and the father of famed entertainer George M. Cohan, known for his work in the family’s touring act, the Four Cohans.
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B.
David Aaron Cohen
David Aaron Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the sports drama film "Friday Night Lights."
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C.
Paul Rudnick
Paul Rudnick is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his sharp wit and contributions to both stage and film comedies.
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D.
Michael Daves
Michael Daves is an American bluegrass and roots musician known for his high-energy vocal style and collaborations with prominent artists such as mandolinist Chris Thile.
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E.
Jason Michael Berman
Jason Michael Berman is a film producer known for his work on notable independent and studio projects, including the 2023 sports drama "Air."
- 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: David Kohan Target entity description: David Kohan is an American television producer and writer best known as the co-creator of the hit sitcom "Will & Grace."
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A.
Jerry Cohan
Jerry Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and the father of famed entertainer George M. Cohan, known for his work in the family’s touring act, the Four Cohans.
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B.
David Aaron Cohen
David Aaron Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the sports drama film "Friday Night Lights."
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C.
Paul Rudnick
Paul Rudnick is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his sharp wit and contributions to both stage and film comedies.
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D.
Michael Daves
Michael Daves is an American bluegrass and roots musician known for his high-energy vocal style and collaborations with prominent artists such as mandolinist Chris Thile.
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E.
Jason Michael Berman
Jason Michael Berman is a film producer known for his work on notable independent and studio projects, including the 2023 sports drama "Air."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: David Kohan Description of subject: David Kohan is an American television producer and writer best known as the co-creator of the hit sitcom "Will & Grace."
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jack McFarland: gay
subject linked to:
Will Truman: Eric McCormack
subject linked to:
Jack McFarland: Sean Hayes
subject linked to:
Grace Adler; Will & Grace