Paul Cohen
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Paul Cohen was an American mathematician renowned for developing the method of forcing and proving the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Cohen canonical | 5 |
| Paul Joseph Cohen | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T839961 — 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: Paul Cohen Context triple: [Kurt Gödel, influenced, Paul Cohen]
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A.
Bruce Jay Friedman
Bruce Jay Friedman was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter known for his darkly comic works and contributions to both literature and film.
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B.
Raymond G. Perelman
Raymond G. Perelman was an American businessman and philanthropist known for his major charitable contributions to education, medicine, and the arts, particularly at the University of Pennsylvania.
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C.
Daniel H. Weiss
Daniel H. Weiss is an American art historian and academic leader who served as president and CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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D.
Arthur J. Goldberg
Arthur J. Goldberg was an American lawyer, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice, and former Secretary of Labor known for his strong support of civil rights and labor rights.
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E.
Martin D. Ginsburg
Martin D. Ginsburg was a prominent American tax lawyer and law professor, noted both for his influential scholarship in tax law and his supportive partnership with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
- 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: Paul Cohen Target entity description: Paul Cohen was an American mathematician renowned for developing the method of forcing and proving the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory.
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A.
Bruce Jay Friedman
Bruce Jay Friedman was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter known for his darkly comic works and contributions to both literature and film.
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B.
Raymond G. Perelman
Raymond G. Perelman was an American businessman and philanthropist known for his major charitable contributions to education, medicine, and the arts, particularly at the University of Pennsylvania.
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C.
Daniel H. Weiss
Daniel H. Weiss is an American art historian and academic leader who served as president and CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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D.
Arthur J. Goldberg
Arthur J. Goldberg was an American lawyer, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice, and former Secretary of Labor known for his strong support of civil rights and labor rights.
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E.
Martin D. Ginsburg
Martin D. Ginsburg was a prominent American tax lawyer and law professor, noted both for his influential scholarship in tax law and his supportive partnership with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Paul Cohen Description of subject: Paul Cohen was an American mathematician renowned for developing the method of forcing and proving the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Paul Joseph Cohen