Kohl
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Kohl is a German surname most prominently associated with Helmut Kohl, the long-serving Chancellor of Germany who oversaw the country’s reunification.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kohl canonical | 20 |
| Kohl-Richter | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T521774 — 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: Kohl Context triple: [Helmut Kohl, familyName, Kohl]
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A.
Rubin
Rubin is a surname most famously associated with American astronomer Vera Rubin, whose work on galaxy rotation curves provided key evidence for the existence of dark matter.
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B.
Karl
Karl is the given name of German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, a prominent military leader during World War II.
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C.
Klein
Klein is a common German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname borne by many notable figures across politics, arts, science, and business.
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D.
Roni
"Roni" is a 1988 R&B single by Bobby Brown, known for its smooth new jack swing style and romantic lyrics.
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E.
Bortus
Bortus is a stoic, duty-bound Moclan officer serving as second-in-command aboard the exploratory spaceship in the sci-fi comedy series "The Orville."
- 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: Kohl Target entity description: Kohl is a German surname most prominently associated with Helmut Kohl, the long-serving Chancellor of Germany who oversaw the country’s reunification.
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A.
Rubin
Rubin is a surname most famously associated with American astronomer Vera Rubin, whose work on galaxy rotation curves provided key evidence for the existence of dark matter.
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B.
Karl
Karl is the given name of German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, a prominent military leader during World War II.
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C.
Klein
Klein is a common German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname borne by many notable figures across politics, arts, science, and business.
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D.
Roni
"Roni" is a 1988 R&B single by Bobby Brown, known for its smooth new jack swing style and romantic lyrics.
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E.
Bortus
Bortus is a stoic, duty-bound Moclan officer serving as second-in-command aboard the exploratory spaceship in the sci-fi comedy series "The Orville."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chancellor of Germany
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German-language surname ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| familyName |
Kohl
self-linksurface differs
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Kohl self-linksurface differs ⓘ Kohl self-linksurface differs ⓘ Kohl self-linksurface differs ⓘ Kohl self-linksurface differs ⓘ Kohl self-linksurface differs ⓘ Kohl self-linksurface differs ⓘ Kohl self-linksurface differs ⓘ Kohl self-linksurface differs ⓘ Kohl self-linksurface differs ⓘ Kohl self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| father | Helmut Kohl ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Friedrich Kohl
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Gerhard Kohl ⓘ Hannelore Kohl ⓘ Hans Kohl ⓘ Helmut Kohl ⓘ Herbert Kohl ⓘ Johannes Kohl ⓘ Karl-Heinz Kohl ⓘ Siegfried Kohl ⓘ Uwe Kohl ⓘ Walter Kohl ⓘ |
| ideology | Christian democracy ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| memberOf | Christian Democratic Union of Germany ⓘ |
| notableFor |
European integration
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German reunification ⓘ |
| officeEnd | 1998 as Chancellor of Germany ⓘ |
| officeStart | 1982 as Chancellor of Germany ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union
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Chancellor of Germany ⓘ
surface form:
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate ⓘ
surface form:
Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate
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| spouse | Helmut Kohl ⓘ |
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: Kohl Description of subject: Kohl is a German surname most prominently associated with Helmut Kohl, the long-serving Chancellor of Germany who oversaw the country’s reunification.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Helmut Kohl
subject surface form:
Hannelore Kohl
subject surface form:
Walter Kohl
subject surface form:
Johannes Kohl
subject surface form:
Herbert Kohl
subject surface form:
Uwe Kohl
subject surface form:
Karl-Heinz Kohl
subject surface form:
Siegfried Kohl
subject surface form:
Gerhard Kohl
subject surface form:
Friedrich Kohl
subject surface form:
Hans Kohl
this entity surface form:
Kohl-Richter
subject surface form:
Hannelore Kohl
subject surface form:
Herb Kohl