Emily Jordan Folger
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Emily Jordan Folger was an American Shakespearean scholar and philanthropist who, with her husband Henry Clay Folger, amassed the world’s largest Shakespeare collection and helped establish the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Emily Jordan Folger canonical | 3 |
| Felice Folger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T716161 — 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: Emily Jordan Folger Context triple: [Folger Shakespeare Library, foundedBy, Emily Jordan Folger]
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A.
Dorothy Quincy
Dorothy Quincy was an American socialite and prominent figure of the Revolutionary era, best known as the wife of statesman and Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock.
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B.
Margaret Gates Wallace
Margaret Gates Wallace was the mother of Bess Truman, the First Lady of the United States during Harry S. Truman’s presidency.
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C.
Esther Stoddard Edwards
Esther Stoddard Edwards was the daughter of prominent American theologian Jonathan Edwards and a member of the influential Edwards-Stoddard New England clerical family.
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D.
Jane Randolph Jefferson
Jane Randolph Jefferson was the mother of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and a member of the prominent Randolph family of colonial Virginia.
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E.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
- 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: Emily Jordan Folger Target entity description: Emily Jordan Folger was an American Shakespearean scholar and philanthropist who, with her husband Henry Clay Folger, amassed the world’s largest Shakespeare collection and helped establish the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
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A.
Dorothy Quincy
Dorothy Quincy was an American socialite and prominent figure of the Revolutionary era, best known as the wife of statesman and Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock.
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B.
Margaret Gates Wallace
Margaret Gates Wallace was the mother of Bess Truman, the First Lady of the United States during Harry S. Truman’s presidency.
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C.
Esther Stoddard Edwards
Esther Stoddard Edwards was the daughter of prominent American theologian Jonathan Edwards and a member of the influential Edwards-Stoddard New England clerical family.
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D.
Jane Randolph Jefferson
Jane Randolph Jefferson was the mother of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and a member of the prominent Randolph family of colonial Virginia.
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E.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
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: Emily Jordan Folger Description of subject: Emily Jordan Folger was an American Shakespearean scholar and philanthropist who, with her husband Henry Clay Folger, amassed the world’s largest Shakespeare collection and helped establish the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Emily Jordan Folger