Richard Bache
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Richard Bache was an American merchant and public official best known as Benjamin Franklin’s son-in-law and as a Postmaster General of the United States during the late 18th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Bache canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7590313 — 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 Bache Context triple: [Bache, hasNotableBearer, Richard Bache]
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A.
Jules Bache
Jules Bache was an American banker, art collector, and philanthropist known for his influential role on Wall Street and his significant art donations to major museums.
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B.
Henry Baerer
Henry Baerer was a German-American sculptor known for creating notable public monuments and statues in the United States during the late 19th century.
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C.
William Sachse
William Sachse was a 19th-century Texas pioneer and landowner after whom the city of Sachse, Texas, is named.
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D.
Samuel Ehrlich
Samuel Ehrlich is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Ehrlich.
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E.
Samuel Diescher
Samuel Diescher was a prominent 19th-century civil and mechanical engineer known for designing several American inclines and industrial structures, particularly in Pittsburgh.
- 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 Bache Target entity description: Richard Bache was an American merchant and public official best known as Benjamin Franklin’s son-in-law and as a Postmaster General of the United States during the late 18th century.
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A.
Jules Bache
Jules Bache was an American banker, art collector, and philanthropist known for his influential role on Wall Street and his significant art donations to major museums.
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B.
Henry Baerer
Henry Baerer was a German-American sculptor known for creating notable public monuments and statues in the United States during the late 19th century.
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C.
William Sachse
William Sachse was a 19th-century Texas pioneer and landowner after whom the city of Sachse, Texas, is named.
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D.
Samuel Ehrlich
Samuel Ehrlich is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Ehrlich.
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E.
Samuel Diescher
Samuel Diescher was a prominent 19th-century civil and mechanical engineer known for designing several American inclines and industrial structures, particularly in Pittsburgh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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human ⓘ merchant ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Benjamin Franklin Bache
NERFINISHED
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Deborah Bache NERFINISHED ⓘ Elizabeth Bache NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis Franklin Bache NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Bache Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Bache NERFINISHED ⓘ William Franklin Bache NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Kingdom of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1737-09-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1811-04-29 ⓘ |
| employer | Continental Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1782 ⓘ |
| era | American Revolutionary era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Bache NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherInLaw | Benjamin Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Philosophical Society ⓘ |
| motherInLaw | Deborah Read Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movedTo |
New York City
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being Benjamin Franklin’s son-in-law
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serving as Postmaster General of the United States ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Benjamin Franklin
NERFINISHED
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Sarah Franklin Bache NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Administration of the American postal system during the Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| occupation |
merchant
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postmaster ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Settle, West Riding of Yorkshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Postmaster General of the Continental Congress
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Postmaster General of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
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| replacedBy | Ebenezer Hazard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaces | Benjamin Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Sarah Franklin Bache NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1776 ⓘ |
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 Bache Description of subject: Richard Bache was an American merchant and public official best known as Benjamin Franklin’s son-in-law and as a Postmaster General of the United States during the late 18th century.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sarah Franklin Bache