Nathaniel Folsom
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Nathaniel Folsom was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New Hampshire who played a key role in organizing and commanding the colony’s militia forces.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cornet Nathaniel Page | 1 |
| Nathaniel Folsom canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6664243 — 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: Nathaniel Folsom Context triple: [New Hampshire Militia, notableCommander, Nathaniel Folsom]
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A.
Robert Folsom
Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
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B.
Isham Randolph
Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
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C.
Joseph Hardin
Joseph Hardin was an American Revolutionary War officer and early frontier leader whose legacy is commemorated in several place names in the southeastern United States.
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D.
Blackford Oakes
Blackford Oakes is a fictional American CIA agent and Cold War spy created by William F. Buckley Jr.
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E.
Benjamin Hardin Helm
Benjamin Hardin Helm was a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War and the brother-in-law of President Abraham Lincoln through his marriage to Emilie Todd Helm.
- 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: Nathaniel Folsom Target entity description: Nathaniel Folsom was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New Hampshire who played a key role in organizing and commanding the colony’s militia forces.
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A.
Robert Folsom
Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
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B.
Isham Randolph
Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
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C.
Joseph Hardin
Joseph Hardin was an American Revolutionary War officer and early frontier leader whose legacy is commemorated in several place names in the southeastern United States.
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D.
Blackford Oakes
Blackford Oakes is a fictional American CIA agent and Cold War spy created by William F. Buckley Jr.
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E.
Benjamin Hardin Helm
Benjamin Hardin Helm was a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War and the brother-in-law of President Abraham Lincoln through his marriage to Emilie Todd Helm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American military officer
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American politician ⓘ Continental Congress delegate ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | 18th century ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Colony of New Hampshire
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linked to:
New Hampshire Colony
United States of America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American colonists ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | New Hampshire militia ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| movement |
American Revolution
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linked to:
American Revolutionary War
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| notableFor |
commanding New Hampshire militia forces during the American Revolutionary War
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organizing New Hampshire militia forces during the American Revolutionary War ⓘ political leadership in New Hampshire ⓘ service in the American Revolution ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
officer in the New Hampshire militia
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political leader in New Hampshire ⓘ |
| residence | New Hampshire ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence | New Hampshire ⓘ |
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: Nathaniel Folsom Description of subject: Nathaniel Folsom was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New Hampshire who played a key role in organizing and commanding the colony’s militia forces.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nathaniel Folsom