David X. Cohen
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David X. Cohen is an American television writer and producer best known as the co-creator and head writer of the animated science-fiction series Futurama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David X. Cohen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9565177 — 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 X. Cohen Context triple: [Futurama, developer, David X. Cohen]
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A.
Jon Abrahams
Jon Abrahams is an American actor best known for his comedic and horror film roles in the early 2000s, including prominent parts in popular parody and teen movies.
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B.
David Kaufman
David Kaufman is an American actor best known for voicing Marty McFly in the animated Back to the Future series and for numerous other voice and live-action roles in film and television.
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C.
Dan Harmon
Dan Harmon is an American writer, producer, and showrunner best known for creating the sitcom "Community" and co-creating the animated series "Rick and Morty."
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D.
Spencer Kaling
Spencer Kaling is the daughter of American actress, writer, and producer Mindy Kaling.
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E.
Steve Kipner
Steve Kipner is an Australian-American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing major pop hits such as Christina Aguilera’s “Genie in a Bottle.”
- 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 X. Cohen Target entity description: David X. Cohen is an American television writer and producer best known as the co-creator and head writer of the animated science-fiction series Futurama.
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A.
Jon Abrahams
Jon Abrahams is an American actor best known for his comedic and horror film roles in the early 2000s, including prominent parts in popular parody and teen movies.
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B.
David Kaufman
David Kaufman is an American actor best known for voicing Marty McFly in the animated Back to the Future series and for numerous other voice and live-action roles in film and television.
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C.
Dan Harmon
Dan Harmon is an American writer, producer, and showrunner best known for creating the sitcom "Community" and co-creating the animated series "Rick and Morty."
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D.
Spencer Kaling
Spencer Kaling is the daughter of American actress, writer, and producer Mindy Kaling.
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E.
Steve Kipner
Steve Kipner is an Australian-American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing major pop hits such as Christina Aguilera’s “Genie in a Bottle.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| activeIn | television industry ⓘ |
| activeSince | 1990s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | David Samuel Cohen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| changedProfessionalNameFrom | David S. Cohen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf | Futurama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1966-07-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| education | Harvard University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
20th Century Fox Television
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fox Broadcasting Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
computer science
ⓘ
physics ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasMiddleInitial | X ⓘ |
| hasWrittenEpisodeOf |
Futurama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Simpsons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headWriterOf | Futurama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedWork | science-fiction comedy genre on television ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-creating Futurama
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head writing Futurama ⓘ writing for The Simpsons ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Harvard Lampoon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | David X. Cohen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | use of mathematical and scientific references in scripts ⓘ |
| notableWork | Futurama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
screenwriter
ⓘ
showrunner ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| reasonForNameChange | to avoid confusion with another writer named David S. Cohen ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| specialization | animated television ⓘ |
| spouse | Laurie Pearce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn | The Simpsons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writerFor | The Simpsons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 X. Cohen Description of subject: David X. Cohen is an American television writer and producer best known as the co-creator and head writer of the animated science-fiction series Futurama.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.