Sammy Cohen
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Sammy Cohen was an American film actor and comedian active in the 1920s and 1930s, known for his supporting roles in Hollywood comedies and war films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sammy Cohen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9013513 — 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: Sammy Cohen Context triple: [The Fighting 69th, starredActor, Sammy Cohen]
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A.
Samuel Cohen
Samuel Cohen was a composer best known for writing the melody that became associated with the Zionist anthem "Hatikvah."
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B.
Samuel Cohen
Samuel Cohen, better known as Sammy Cahn, was an American lyricist renowned for his Academy Award–winning songs and collaborations with artists like Frank Sinatra.
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C.
Sam Levene
Sam Levene was a prominent American stage and film actor best known for his comic and character roles in mid-20th-century Broadway productions and Hollywood movies.
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D.
Nat Cohen
Nat Cohen was a notable member of the British Battalion, recognized for his involvement in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.
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E.
Barry Leiba
Barry Leiba is an Internet standards expert and longtime IETF contributor known for his work on email and messaging technologies and authorship of multiple RFCs.
- 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: Sammy Cohen Target entity description: Sammy Cohen was an American film actor and comedian active in the 1920s and 1930s, known for his supporting roles in Hollywood comedies and war films.
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A.
Samuel Cohen
Samuel Cohen was a composer best known for writing the melody that became associated with the Zionist anthem "Hatikvah."
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B.
Samuel Cohen
Samuel Cohen, better known as Sammy Cahn, was an American lyricist renowned for his Academy Award–winning songs and collaborations with artists like Frank Sinatra.
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C.
Sam Levene
Sam Levene was a prominent American stage and film actor best known for his comic and character roles in mid-20th-century Broadway productions and Hollywood movies.
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D.
Nat Cohen
Nat Cohen was a notable member of the British Battalion, recognized for his involvement in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.
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E.
Barry Leiba
Barry Leiba is an Internet standards expert and longtime IETF contributor known for his work on email and messaging technologies and authorship of multiple RFCs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1920s
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1930s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | Classical Hollywood cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comedy
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film ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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war film ⓘ |
| hasNotableRoleType | supporting actor ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| isA | American film comedian ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance | film ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
supporting roles in Hollywood comedies
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supporting roles in war films ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| workedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Sammy Cohen Description of subject: Sammy Cohen was an American film actor and comedian active in the 1920s and 1930s, known for his supporting roles in Hollywood comedies and war films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.