Genghis Cohen
E304953
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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Genghis Cohen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2855001 — 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: Genghis Cohen Context triple: [The Crying of Lot 49, mainCharacter, Genghis Cohen]
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A.
Jake Cohen
Jake Cohen is known primarily as the son of Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to Donald Trump.
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B.
Dashiell Weinstein
Dashiell Weinstein is one of the children of disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.
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C.
Cohen
Cohen is a common Jewish surname of Hebrew origin historically associated with priestly lineage.
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D.
Ben Dreith
Ben Dreith is a former American football official best known for his long career as an NFL referee, including working high-profile games such as Super Bowl XV.
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E.
Barret Zoph
Barret Zoph is a machine learning researcher known for his work on neural architecture search and contributions to deep learning at Google Brain.
- 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: Genghis Cohen Target entity description: 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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A.
Jake Cohen
Jake Cohen is known primarily as the son of Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to Donald Trump.
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B.
Dashiell Weinstein
Dashiell Weinstein is one of the children of disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.
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C.
Cohen
Cohen is a common Jewish surname of Hebrew origin historically associated with priestly lineage.
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D.
Ben Dreith
Ben Dreith is a former American football official best known for his long career as an NFL referee, including working high-profile games such as Super Bowl XV.
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E.
Barret Zoph
Barret Zoph is a machine learning researcher known for his work on neural architecture search and contributions to deep learning at Google Brain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
philatelist ⓘ |
| analyzes | postage stamps ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Crying of Lot 49 ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Tristero
ⓘ
surface form:
Tristero conspiracy
mysterious stamps ⓘ |
| connectedToTheme |
conspiracy
ⓘ
interpretation of signs ⓘ paranoia ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginInFiction |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | Thomas Pynchon ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
The Crying of Lot 49
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surface form:
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
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| genreContext | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| hasNameAllusion |
Genghis Khan
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Jewish surname Cohen ⓘ |
| hasSpecialization |
philatelic analysis
ⓘ
rare stamps ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
meticulous
ⓘ
professional ⓘ |
| helpsCharacter | Oedipa Maas ⓘ |
| involvement | investigation of underground postal system ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | expert consultant on stamps ⓘ |
| occupation | philatelist ⓘ |
| partOf | The Crying of Lot 49 character list ⓘ |
| roleInWork | minor character ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
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: Genghis Cohen Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.