Lester Cohen
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Lester Cohen was an American screenwriter and author active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for adapting stories for film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lester Cohen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8207503 — 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: Lester Cohen Context triple: [Blessed Event, screenwriter, Lester Cohen]
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A.
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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B.
Larry Brezner
Larry Brezner was an American film producer and talent manager known for producing popular comedies such as "Good Morning, Vietnam," "The 'Burbs," and "Ride Along."
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C.
Stanley Saitowitz
Stanley Saitowitz is a South African-born American architect known for his minimalist, modernist designs and influential work in contemporary urban architecture.
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D.
Nevin Steinberg
Nevin Steinberg is a prominent American theatrical sound designer best known for his acclaimed work on the Broadway musical "Hamilton."
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E.
Michele Lerner
Michele Lerner is known primarily as the third wife of American lyricist and playwright Alan Jay Lerner.
- 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: Lester Cohen Target entity description: Lester Cohen was an American screenwriter and author active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for adapting stories for film.
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A.
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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B.
Larry Brezner
Larry Brezner was an American film producer and talent manager known for producing popular comedies such as "Good Morning, Vietnam," "The 'Burbs," and "Ride Along."
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C.
Stanley Saitowitz
Stanley Saitowitz is a South African-born American architect known for his minimalist, modernist designs and influential work in contemporary urban architecture.
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D.
Nevin Steinberg
Nevin Steinberg is a prominent American theatrical sound designer best known for his acclaimed work on the Broadway musical "Hamilton."
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E.
Michele Lerner
Michele Lerner is known primarily as the third wife of American lyricist and playwright Alan Jay Lerner.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American writer
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era |
20th-century American literature
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Classical Hollywood cinema era ⓘ
linked to:
classical Hollywood cinema
|
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
ⓘ
novels ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| hasOccupationCharacteristic | adaptation specialist ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | adapting stories for film ⓘ |
| notableRole | Hollywood screenwriter ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Lester Cohen Description of subject: Lester Cohen was an American screenwriter and author active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for adapting stories for film.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.