Folger
E222683
Folger is the middle name of Francis Folger Franklin, the son of American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Folger canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1993181 — 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: Folger Context triple: [Francis Folger Franklin, middleName, Folger]
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A.
Folger Shakespeare Library
The Folger Shakespeare Library is a renowned research institution and cultural center in Washington, D.C., housing the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare materials and rare Renaissance books and manuscripts.
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B.
Wren Library
Wren Library is the historic main library of Trinity College, Cambridge, renowned for its classical architecture by Sir Christopher Wren and its collection of rare books and manuscripts.
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C.
The Globe
The Globe is a traditional English pub serving as a local social hub in the village of Luddenden Foot in West Yorkshire.
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D.
The Globe
The Globe is a major American daily newspaper based in Boston, widely recognized for its influential journalism and multiple Pulitzer Prize–winning investigations.
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E.
The Globe
The Globe is a distinctive spherical fine-dining restaurant in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, known for its panoramic city views from atop the Al Faisaliyah Center.
- 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: Folger Target entity description: Folger is the middle name of Francis Folger Franklin, the son of American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin.
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A.
Folger Shakespeare Library
The Folger Shakespeare Library is a renowned research institution and cultural center in Washington, D.C., housing the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare materials and rare Renaissance books and manuscripts.
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B.
Wren Library
Wren Library is the historic main library of Trinity College, Cambridge, renowned for its classical architecture by Sir Christopher Wren and its collection of rare books and manuscripts.
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C.
The Globe
The Globe is a traditional English pub serving as a local social hub in the village of Luddenden Foot in West Yorkshire.
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D.
The Globe
The Globe is a major American daily newspaper based in Boston, widely recognized for its influential journalism and multiple Pulitzer Prize–winning investigations.
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E.
The Globe
The Globe is a distinctive spherical fine-dining restaurant in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, known for its panoramic city views from atop the Al Faisaliyah Center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ middle name ⓘ |
| child | Francis Folger Franklin ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Franklin ⓘ |
| father | Benjamin Franklin ⓘ |
| givenName | Francis ⓘ |
| middleName | Folger ⓘ |
| mother |
Deborah Read Franklin
ⓘ
linked to:
Deborah Read
|
| notableFamily | Franklin family ⓘ |
| occupation |
inventor
ⓘ
statesman ⓘ |
| partOfFullName | Francis Folger Franklin ⓘ |
| usedBy | Francis Folger Franklin ⓘ |
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: Folger Description of subject: Folger is the middle name of Francis Folger Franklin, the son of American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Folger
subject linked to:
the Folger family of Benjamin Franklin’s mother
subject linked to:
the Folger family of Benjamin Franklin’s mother