Cohon
E919384
Cohon is the family surname of American actor, author, and narrator Peter Coyote, born Peter Cohon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cohon canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11328455 — 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: Cohon Context triple: [Peter Coyote, familyName, Cohon]
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A.
Cosey
Cosey is a surname most notably associated with the character Bill Cosey from Toni Morrison’s novel "Love."
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B.
Genghis Cohen
Genghis Cohen is a minor character in Thomas Pynchon's novel "The Crying of Lot 49," known as a philatelist who helps analyze the mysterious stamps central to the story's conspiracy.
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C.
Koho
Koho is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Koho ethnic group in Vietnam’s Central Highlands.
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D.
Chotiner
Chotiner is a surname most notably associated with Murray Chotiner, an American political strategist and key adviser to Richard Nixon.
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E.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
- 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: Cohon Target entity description: Cohon is the family surname of American actor, author, and narrator Peter Coyote, born Peter Cohon.
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A.
Cosey
Cosey is a surname most notably associated with the character Bill Cosey from Toni Morrison’s novel "Love."
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B.
Genghis Cohen
Genghis Cohen is a minor character in Thomas Pynchon's novel "The Crying of Lot 49," known as a philatelist who helps analyze the mysterious stamps central to the story's conspiracy.
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C.
Koho
Koho is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Koho ethnic group in Vietnam’s Central Highlands.
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D.
Chotiner
Chotiner is a surname most notably associated with Murray Chotiner, an American political strategist and key adviser to Richard Nixon.
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E.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
author ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ narrator ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| birthName | Peter Cohon ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| familyNameAtBirth | Cohon ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Cohon ⓘ |
| isBirthSurnameOf | Peter Coyote ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
author ⓘ narrator ⓘ |
| stageName | Peter Coyote ⓘ |
| usedBy | Peter Coyote ⓘ |
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: Cohon Description of subject: Cohon is the family surname of American actor, author, and narrator Peter Coyote, born Peter Cohon.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.