Jerry Cohan
E423834
Jerry Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and the father of famed entertainer George M. Cohan, known for his work in the family’s touring act, the Four Cohans.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jerry Cohan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4253163 — 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: Jerry Cohan Context triple: [Josephine Cohan, sibling, Jerry Cohan]
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A.
David Aaron Cohen
David Aaron Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the sports drama film "Friday Night Lights."
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B.
Rob Cohen
Rob Cohen is an American film director and producer best known for helming high-profile action and adventure movies such as "The Fast and the Furious" and "xXx."
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C.
Paul Rudnick
Paul Rudnick is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his sharp wit and contributions to both stage and film comedies.
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D.
Joel Cohen
Joel Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of Pixar's landmark animated film "Toy Story."
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E.
Joel Cohen
Joel Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing mainstream comedies such as "Garfield: The Movie" and other family-oriented films.
- 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: Jerry Cohan Target entity description: Jerry Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and the father of famed entertainer George M. Cohan, known for his work in the family’s touring act, the Four Cohans.
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A.
David Aaron Cohen
David Aaron Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the sports drama film "Friday Night Lights."
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B.
Rob Cohen
Rob Cohen is an American film director and producer best known for helming high-profile action and adventure movies such as "The Fast and the Furious" and "xXx."
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C.
Paul Rudnick
Paul Rudnick is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his sharp wit and contributions to both stage and film comedies.
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D.
Joel Cohen
Joel Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of Pixar's landmark animated film "Toy Story."
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E.
Joel Cohen
Joel Cohen is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing mainstream comedies such as "Garfield: The Movie" and other family-oriented films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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stage actor ⓘ vaudeville act ⓘ vaudeville performer ⓘ |
| child | George M. Cohan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| father | Jerry Cohan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | theatre ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| hasMember | Jerry Cohan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Four Cohans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Jerry Cohan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Cohan family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | patriarch of the Four Cohans ⓘ |
| notableWork | Four Cohans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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entertainer ⓘ vaudeville performer ⓘ |
| performingArtsGenre | vaudeville ⓘ |
| relative |
George M. Cohan
NERFINISHED
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Nellie Cohan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jerry Cohan
NERFINISHED
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Nellie Cohan 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: Jerry Cohan Description of subject: Jerry Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and the father of famed entertainer George M. Cohan, known for his work in the family’s touring act, the Four Cohans.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.