Richard Franklin
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Richard Franklin was a British actor best known for playing Captain Mike Yates in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Franklin canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3377916 — 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: Richard Franklin Context triple: [Terror of the Autons, starsActor, Richard Franklin]
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A.
Scott Franklin
Scott Franklin is an American film producer known for his frequent collaborations with director Darren Aronofsky on acclaimed movies such as Black Swan and The Wrestler.
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B.
Don Francks
Don Francks was a Canadian actor and jazz musician known for his work in film, television, and voice acting, as well as for his distinctive baritone voice and countercultural persona.
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C.
Vaughn Franklin
Vaughn Franklin is one of the children of renowned Baptist minister and civil rights activist C. L. Franklin.
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D.
Richard Buckley
Richard Buckley was an American fashion journalist and editor, best known for his long career at magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair and his decades-long partnership with designer Tom Ford.
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E.
Ron Dixon
Ron Dixon is a former NFL wide receiver and kick returner best known for his explosive return touchdowns for the New York Giants during their run to Super Bowl XXXV.
- 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: Richard Franklin Target entity description: Richard Franklin was a British actor best known for playing Captain Mike Yates in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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A.
Scott Franklin
Scott Franklin is an American film producer known for his frequent collaborations with director Darren Aronofsky on acclaimed movies such as Black Swan and The Wrestler.
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B.
Don Francks
Don Francks was a Canadian actor and jazz musician known for his work in film, television, and voice acting, as well as for his distinctive baritone voice and countercultural persona.
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C.
Vaughn Franklin
Vaughn Franklin is one of the children of renowned Baptist minister and civil rights activist C. L. Franklin.
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D.
Richard Buckley
Richard Buckley was an American fashion journalist and editor, best known for his long career at magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair and his decades-long partnership with designer Tom Ford.
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E.
Ron Dixon
Ron Dixon is a former NFL wide receiver and kick returner best known for his explosive return touchdowns for the New York Giants during their run to Super Bowl XXXV.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Richard Franklin Description of subject: Richard Franklin was a British actor best known for playing Captain Mike Yates in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.