Alexander Franklin James
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Alexander Franklin James was a 19th-century American outlaw best known as the older brother and partner-in-crime of Jesse James in the James–Younger Gang.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander Franklin James canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9257586 — 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: Alexander Franklin James Context triple: [Frank James, birthName, Alexander Franklin James]
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A.
Thomas James
Thomas James was a 17th-century Welsh explorer and navigator best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
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B.
John George Howard
John George Howard was a 19th-century English-born Canadian architect, surveyor, and civic leader in Toronto, best known for his significant land donations and contributions to the city's development.
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C.
Arthur George Brown
Arthur George Brown was the son of pioneering British aviator Arthur Whitten Brown, who co-piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919.
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D.
William Alexander Graham
William Alexander Graham was a 19th-century American politician from North Carolina who served as the state's governor, a U.S. senator, and Secretary of the Navy.
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E.
Robert James
Robert James is an American businessman best known as the founder of the financial services firm Raymond James Financial.
- 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: Alexander Franklin James Target entity description: Alexander Franklin James was a 19th-century American outlaw best known as the older brother and partner-in-crime of Jesse James in the James–Younger Gang.
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A.
Thomas James
Thomas James was a 17th-century Welsh explorer and navigator best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
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B.
John George Howard
John George Howard was a 19th-century English-born Canadian architect, surveyor, and civic leader in Toronto, best known for his significant land donations and contributions to the city's development.
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C.
Arthur George Brown
Arthur George Brown was the son of pioneering British aviator Arthur Whitten Brown, who co-piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919.
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D.
William Alexander Graham
William Alexander Graham was a 19th-century American politician from North Carolina who served as the state's governor, a U.S. senator, and Secretary of the Navy.
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E.
Robert James
Robert James is an American businessman best known as the founder of the financial services firm Raymond James Financial.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Alexander Franklin James Description of subject: Alexander Franklin James was a 19th-century American outlaw best known as the older brother and partner-in-crime of Jesse James in the James–Younger Gang.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.