Louis B. Sohn
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Louis B. Sohn was a prominent international law scholar and advocate who played a key role in the development of the United Nations and modern international legal institutions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Louis B. Sohn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10969622 — 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: Louis B. Sohn Context triple: [Louis B. Sohn Award, namedAfter, Louis B. Sohn]
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A.
Marvin Duchow
Marvin Duchow was a Canadian musicologist and influential professor of music at McGill University, known for his scholarship in Renaissance and Baroque music.
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B.
Bert E. Friedlob
Bert E. Friedlob was an American film producer active in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s, known for backing several notable studio features.
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C.
Irving Kahn
Irving Kahn was a pioneering American value investor and longtime disciple of Benjamin Graham, renowned for his disciplined, research-driven approach and extraordinary longevity in the investment world.
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D.
Joseph Goodman
Joseph Goodman was a Mayanist scholar known for his pioneering work in correlating the Maya and Gregorian calendars.
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E.
Richard L. Mendelsohn
Richard L. Mendelsohn is a logician and philosopher known for his collaborative work in logic and related areas, including coauthoring publications with Melvin Fitting.
- 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: Louis B. Sohn Target entity description: Louis B. Sohn was a prominent international law scholar and advocate who played a key role in the development of the United Nations and modern international legal institutions.
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A.
Marvin Duchow
Marvin Duchow was a Canadian musicologist and influential professor of music at McGill University, known for his scholarship in Renaissance and Baroque music.
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B.
Bert E. Friedlob
Bert E. Friedlob was an American film producer active in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s, known for backing several notable studio features.
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C.
Irving Kahn
Irving Kahn was a pioneering American value investor and longtime disciple of Benjamin Graham, renowned for his disciplined, research-driven approach and extraordinary longevity in the investment world.
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D.
Joseph Goodman
Joseph Goodman was a Mayanist scholar known for his pioneering work in correlating the Maya and Gregorian calendars.
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E.
Richard L. Mendelsohn
Richard L. Mendelsohn is a logician and philosopher known for his collaborative work in logic and related areas, including coauthoring publications with Melvin Fitting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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international law scholar ⓘ international lawyer ⓘ law professor ⓘ legal academic ⓘ |
| advisorTo | United States delegation to the United Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
peace through international law
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strengthening the United Nations system ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Goler T. Butcher Medal
NERFINISHED
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Manley O. Hudson Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | Grenville Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | drafting of the United Nations Charter ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Poland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Law School
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Johns Hopkins University ⓘ |
| employer |
George Washington University Law School
NERFINISHED
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Harvard Law School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Sohn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
United Nations law
NERFINISHED
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human rights law ⓘ international law ⓘ law of the sea ⓘ |
| givenName | Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy of stronger international legal institutions
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contributions to the development of the United Nations ⓘ work on codification of international law ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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German ⓘ Polish ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Society of International Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | internationalism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Basic Documents of the United Nations
NERFINISHED
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Cases and Materials on United Nations Law NERFINISHED ⓘ United Nations Decision Making NERFINISHED ⓘ World Peace Through World Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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jurist ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| participatedIn | San Francisco Conference of the United Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lviv NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Bentley Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School
NERFINISHED
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Woodruff Professor of International Law at George Washington University Law School NERFINISHED ⓘ president of the American Society of International Law ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Louis B. Sohn Description of subject: Louis B. Sohn was a prominent international law scholar and advocate who played a key role in the development of the United Nations and modern international legal institutions.
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