I. Bernard Cohen
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I. Bernard Cohen was a prominent American historian of science best known for his influential scholarship on Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| I. Bernard Cohen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T511592 — 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: I. Bernard Cohen Context triple: [Princeton University Press, notableAuthorPublished, I. Bernard Cohen]
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A.
Peter Gay
Peter Gay was a German-born American historian and author best known for his influential works on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle class, and the history of psychoanalysis.
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B.
Benjamin Rapoport
Benjamin Rapoport is a neurosurgeon and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the brain–computer interface company Neuralink.
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C.
Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin was a 20th-century political philosopher and historian of ideas best known for his writings on liberalism, value pluralism, and the concept of negative and positive liberty.
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D.
Horace M. Kallen
Horace M. Kallen was an American philosopher and cultural pluralist best known for developing the concept of cultural pluralism in the United States and advocating for ethnic diversity and Zionism.
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E.
Norman Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein is an American political scientist, author, and commentator known for his controversial critiques of Israeli policy and the politics surrounding the Holocaust.
- 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: I. Bernard Cohen Target entity description: I. Bernard Cohen was a prominent American historian of science best known for his influential scholarship on Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution.
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A.
Peter Gay
Peter Gay was a German-born American historian and author best known for his influential works on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle class, and the history of psychoanalysis.
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B.
Benjamin Rapoport
Benjamin Rapoport is a neurosurgeon and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the brain–computer interface company Neuralink.
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C.
Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin was a 20th-century political philosopher and historian of ideas best known for his writings on liberalism, value pluralism, and the concept of negative and positive liberty.
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D.
Horace M. Kallen
Horace M. Kallen was an American philosopher and cultural pluralist best known for developing the concept of cultural pluralism in the United States and advocating for ethnic diversity and Zionism.
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E.
Norman Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein is an American political scientist, author, and commentator known for his controversial critiques of Israeli policy and the politics surrounding the Holocaust.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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historian of science ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer | Harvard University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Newtonian studies
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history of mathematics ⓘ history of physics ⓘ history of science ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | scholarly non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Cohen ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | I. Bernard ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Isaac Newton ⓘ |
| knownFor |
interpretation of the Scientific Revolution
ⓘ
work on Isaac Newton’s Principia ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Harvard University faculty ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
scholarship on Isaac Newton
ⓘ
studies of the Scientific Revolution ⓘ |
| notableWork |
studies of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica
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writings on the Scientific Revolution ⓘ |
| occupation |
historian of science
ⓘ
university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of the history of science at Harvard University ⓘ |
| studies |
Isaac Newton
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Scientific Revolution ⓘ
surface form:
the Scientific Revolution
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| workLocation | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: I. Bernard Cohen Description of subject: I. Bernard Cohen was a prominent American historian of science best known for his influential scholarship on Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.