William Franklin
E42003
William Franklin was the Loyalist last colonial governor of New Jersey and the illegitimate son of American statesman Benjamin Franklin.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Franklin canonical | 13 |
| Benjamin Franklin's son William Franklin | 1 |
| William Franklin (colonial governor) | 1 |
| William Temple Franklin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T256686 — 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: William Franklin Context triple: [Benjamin Franklin, child, William Franklin]
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A.
Marinus Willett
Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
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B.
Thomas McKean
Thomas McKean was an American lawyer, statesman, and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence and later served as governor of Pennsylvania.
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C.
Hugh Mercer
Hugh Mercer was a Scottish-born American physician and brigadier general in the Continental Army who became a Revolutionary War hero after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Princeton.
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John Dickinson
John Dickinson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and politician known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his influential writings advocating colonial rights and cautious resistance to British rule.
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E.
Franklin
Franklin is the given name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II.
- 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: William Franklin Target entity description: William Franklin was the Loyalist last colonial governor of New Jersey and the illegitimate son of American statesman Benjamin Franklin.
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A.
Marinus Willett
Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
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B.
Thomas McKean
Thomas McKean was an American lawyer, statesman, and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence and later served as governor of Pennsylvania.
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C.
Hugh Mercer
Hugh Mercer was a Scottish-born American physician and brigadier general in the Continental Army who became a Revolutionary War hero after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Princeton.
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D.
John Dickinson
John Dickinson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and politician known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his influential writings advocating colonial rights and cautious resistance to British rule.
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E.
Franklin
Franklin is the given name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: William Franklin Description of subject: William Franklin was the Loyalist last colonial governor of New Jersey and the illegitimate son of American statesman Benjamin Franklin.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin's son William Franklin
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linked to: William Franklin
linked to: William Franklin
linked to: William Franklin
subject linked to:
Sarah Franklin
subject linked to:
BENJAMIN and DEBORAH FRANKLIN