Howard Franklin
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Howard Franklin is an American screenwriter and film director known for his work on movies such as "Quick Change" and "The Name of the Rose."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard Franklin canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2611126 — 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: Howard Franklin Context triple: [Franklin, hasNotableBearer, Howard Franklin]
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A.
Howard Vollum
Howard Vollum was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Tektronix, a pioneering company in oscilloscopes and electronic test equipment.
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B.
Frank Oliver Howard
Frank Oliver Howard is the full name of Frank Howard, a notable American Major League Baseball slugger and outfielder/first baseman who played primarily in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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C.
Franklin Martin
Franklin Martin was an American physician and medical leader best known for founding the American Cancer Society.
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D.
Bruce Franklin
Bruce Franklin is an American cultural historian, literary scholar, and former political activist known for his influential work on science fiction, prison literature, and American cultural studies.
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E.
Howard Ellsworth Wood
Howard Ellsworth "Smoky Joe" Wood was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and later outfielder, famed for his dominant fastball and standout seasons with the Boston Red Sox in the early 20th century.
- 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: Howard Franklin Target entity description: Howard Franklin is an American screenwriter and film director known for his work on movies such as "Quick Change" and "The Name of the Rose."
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A.
Howard Vollum
Howard Vollum was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Tektronix, a pioneering company in oscilloscopes and electronic test equipment.
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B.
Frank Oliver Howard
Frank Oliver Howard is the full name of Frank Howard, a notable American Major League Baseball slugger and outfielder/first baseman who played primarily in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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C.
Franklin Martin
Franklin Martin was an American physician and medical leader best known for founding the American Cancer Society.
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D.
Bruce Franklin
Bruce Franklin is an American cultural historian, literary scholar, and former political activist known for his influential work on science fiction, prison literature, and American cultural studies.
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E.
Howard Ellsworth Wood
Howard Ellsworth "Smoky Joe" Wood was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and later outfielder, famed for his dominant fastball and standout seasons with the Boston Red Sox in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film ⓘ film director ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
France
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Italy ⓘ United States of America ⓘ West Germany ⓘ |
| director | Howard Franklin ⓘ |
| genre | film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
film direction
ⓘ
screenwriting ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Quick Change
ⓘ
The Name of the Rose ⓘ
linked to:
The Name of the Rose (novel)
|
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Howard 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: Howard Franklin Description of subject: Howard Franklin is an American screenwriter and film director known for his work on movies such as "Quick Change" and "The Name of the Rose."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.