Jacob Rodney Cohen
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Jacob Rodney Cohen, better known by his stage name Rodney Dangerfield, was an American stand-up comedian and actor famed for his self-deprecating humor and catchphrase "I don't get no respect."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacob Rodney Cohen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8577900 — 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: Jacob Rodney Cohen Context triple: [Rodney Dangerfield, birthName, Jacob Rodney Cohen]
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A.
Jake Cohen
Jake Cohen is known primarily as the son of Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to Donald Trump.
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B.
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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C.
Nathan Cohen
Nathan Cohen is the paternal grandfather of Lorca Cohen, the daughter of renowned Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen.
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D.
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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E.
Etan Cohen
Etan Cohen is an American screenwriter and director best known for co-writing hit comedy films such as Tropic Thunder and Men in Black 3.
- 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: Jacob Rodney Cohen Target entity description: Jacob Rodney Cohen, better known by his stage name Rodney Dangerfield, was an American stand-up comedian and actor famed for his self-deprecating humor and catchphrase "I don't get no respect."
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A.
Jake Cohen
Jake Cohen is known primarily as the son of Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to Donald Trump.
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B.
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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C.
Nathan Cohen
Nathan Cohen is the paternal grandfather of Lorca Cohen, the daughter of renowned Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen.
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D.
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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E.
Etan Cohen
Etan Cohen is an American screenwriter and director best known for co-writing hit comedy films such as Tropic Thunder and Men in Black 3.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2004 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940 ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from heart surgery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1921-11-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2004-10-05 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Cohen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
insult comedy
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observational comedy ⓘ self-deprecating humor ⓘ |
| givenName | Jacob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSignaturePhrase | I don't get no respect ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.rodneydangerfield.com/ ⓘ |
| influenced |
Adam Sandler
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Andrew Dice Clay NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerry Seinfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Carrey NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Kinison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Henny Youngman
NERFINISHED
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Jack Benny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Jacob Rodney Cohen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
catchphrase "I don't get no respect"
ⓘ
self-deprecating humor ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Back to School
NERFINISHED
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Caddyshack NERFINISHED ⓘ Easy Money NERFINISHED ⓘ Natural Born Killers NERFINISHED ⓘ Rover Dangerfield NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ed Sullivan Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
film actor
ⓘ
producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Babylon, New York, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Deer Park, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Joan Child
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joyce Indig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Rodney Dangerfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jacob Rodney Cohen Description of subject: Jacob Rodney Cohen, better known by his stage name Rodney Dangerfield, was an American stand-up comedian and actor famed for his self-deprecating humor and catchphrase "I don't get no respect."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.