Franklin Sousley
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Franklin Sousley was a United States Marine and one of the six flag raisers on Iwo Jima during World War II, whose story is prominently depicted in the film "Flags of Our Fathers."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Franklin Sousley canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5084589 — 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: Franklin Sousley Context triple: [Flags of Our Fathers, mainCharacter, Franklin Sousley]
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A.
Franklin Martin
Franklin Martin was an American physician and medical leader best known for founding the American Cancer Society.
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B.
Leonard Franklin Slye
Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Franklin Rood
Franklin Rood is the sadistic serial killer antagonist at the center of the 2012 horror film "Shiver."
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D.
Louis Tully
Louis Tully is a nerdy, well-meaning accountant and neighbor of Dana Barrett who becomes a comedic, possessed pawn of Gozer in the Ghostbusters films.
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E.
Sidney Badgley
Sidney Badgley was a Canadian-born architect known for designing prominent churches and public buildings across North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Franklin Sousley Target entity description: Franklin Sousley was a United States Marine and one of the six flag raisers on Iwo Jima during World War II, whose story is prominently depicted in the film "Flags of Our Fathers."
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A.
Franklin Martin
Franklin Martin was an American physician and medical leader best known for founding the American Cancer Society.
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B.
Leonard Franklin Slye
Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Franklin Rood
Franklin Rood is the sadistic serial killer antagonist at the center of the 2012 horror film "Shiver."
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D.
Louis Tully
Louis Tully is a nerdy, well-meaning accountant and neighbor of Dana Barrett who becomes a comedic, possessed pawn of Gozer in the Ghostbusters films.
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E.
Sidney Badgley
Sidney Badgley was a Canadian-born architect known for designing prominent churches and public buildings across North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Marine
ⓘ
World War II military personnel ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Presidential Unit Citation
ⓘ
Purple Heart ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Elizaville Cemetery, Elizaville, Kentucky, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
gunshot wound
ⓘ
killed in action ⓘ |
| conflict |
Battle of Iwo Jima
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| depictedIn |
Flags of Our Fathers
ⓘ
linked to:
film "Flags of Our Fathers"
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima photograph ⓘ
linked to:
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
|
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Sousley ⓘ |
| genre | military history subject ⓘ |
| givenName | Franklin ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Sousley family of Kentucky ⓘ |
| hasRepresentation |
character in the film Flags of Our Fathers
ⓘ
subject of historical books on Iwo Jima ⓘ |
| hasRole | rifleman ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memorial |
grave marker at Elizaville Cemetery
ⓘ
inclusions on Iwo Jima memorial honor rolls ⓘ |
| militaryAllegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Private First Class ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
death during the Battle of Iwo Jima
ⓘ
second flag raising on Mount Suribachi ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being misidentified and later correctly identified in the Iwo Jima flag-raising photograph
ⓘ
symbolizing American sacrifice in the Pacific Theater of World War II ⓘ |
| notableRole | one of the six flag raisers on Iwo Jima ⓘ |
| notableWork | Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima ⓘ |
| occupation |
United States Marine
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Marine Corps personnel
soldier ⓘ |
| partOf |
28th Marine Regiment
ⓘ
5th Marine Division ⓘ Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines ⓘ
linked to:
2nd Battalion, 28th Marines
United States Armed Forces in World War II ⓘ
linked to:
United States Marine Corps in World War II
|
| placeOfBirth | Hill Top, Kentucky, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, Japan ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | United States Marine Corps service number (specific numeric value not provided) ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Flags of Our Fathers (book)
ⓘ
Flags of Our Fathers (film) ⓘ
linked to:
film "Flags of Our Fathers"
|
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: Franklin Sousley Description of subject: Franklin Sousley was a United States Marine and one of the six flag raisers on Iwo Jima during World War II, whose story is prominently depicted in the film "Flags of Our Fathers."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Flags of Our Fathers"