Howard Koh
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Howard Koh is an American physician and public health leader who served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health and is known for his work in cancer prevention, health disparities, and tobacco control.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard Koh canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2340923 — 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: Howard Koh Context triple: [Harold Hongju Koh, sibling, Howard Koh]
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A.
Harold Hongju Koh
Harold Hongju Koh is a prominent American legal scholar and former U.S. State Department legal adviser known for his work in international law and human rights.
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B.
Jeffrey A. Rosen
Jeffrey A. Rosen is an American lawyer and government official who has served in senior roles at the U.S. Department of Transportation and later as Deputy Attorney General of the United States.
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C.
David Cole
David Cole is a music producer best known for his work on Mariah Carey’s song “Emotions” and as one half of the influential production duo C+C Music Factory.
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D.
Jack Goldsmith
Jack Goldsmith is an American legal scholar and Harvard Law School professor known for his work on national security law, cyber law, and the limits of executive power.
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E.
David J. Barron
David J. Barron is an American jurist and former Harvard Law School professor who serves as the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
- 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: Howard Koh Target entity description: Howard Koh is an American physician and public health leader who served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health and is known for his work in cancer prevention, health disparities, and tobacco control.
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A.
Harold Hongju Koh
Harold Hongju Koh is a prominent American legal scholar and former U.S. State Department legal adviser known for his work in international law and human rights.
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B.
Jeffrey A. Rosen
Jeffrey A. Rosen is an American lawyer and government official who has served in senior roles at the U.S. Department of Transportation and later as Deputy Attorney General of the United States.
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C.
David Cole
David Cole is a music producer best known for his work on Mariah Carey’s song “Emotions” and as one half of the influential production duo C+C Music Factory.
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D.
Jack Goldsmith
Jack Goldsmith is an American legal scholar and Harvard Law School professor known for his work on national security law, cyber law, and the limits of executive power.
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E.
David J. Barron
David J. Barron is an American jurist and former Harvard Law School professor who serves as the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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physician ⓘ public health leader ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Yale College
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Yale School of Medicine ⓘ |
| employer |
Harvard Kennedy School
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cancer prevention
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health disparities ⓘ public health ⓘ tobacco control ⓘ |
| genre | scientific article ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Harold Hongju Koh ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medicalSpecialty | internal medicine ⓘ |
| memberOf | National Academy of Medicine ⓘ |
| notableWork |
cancer prevention policy
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health disparities research ⓘ tobacco control policy ⓘ |
| occupation |
physician
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professor ⓘ public health official ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Assistant Secretary for Health
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surface form:
United States Assistant Secretary for Health
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| workLocation |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Howard Koh Description of subject: Howard Koh is an American physician and public health leader who served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health and is known for his work in cancer prevention, health disparities, and tobacco control.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.