Oscar Folsom
E221514
Oscar Folsom was an American lawyer from Buffalo, New York, best known as the father of Frances Folsom Cleveland, the youngest First Lady in U.S. history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Oscar Folsom canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1559441 — 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: Oscar Folsom Context triple: [Frances Folsom Cleveland, father, Oscar 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.
Eugene Franklin Skinner
Eugene Franklin Skinner was a 19th-century American pioneer and early settler who founded the community that became the city of Eugene, Oregon.
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C.
Louie L. Wainwright
Louie L. Wainwright was the Director of the Florida Division of Corrections who became historically notable as the named state official in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to counsel for indigent defendants.
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D.
Raymond Griffith
Raymond Griffith was a prominent American silent film comedian and producer known for his sophisticated, understated style and influential work in early Hollywood cinema.
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E.
Frederic McLaughlin
Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
- 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: Oscar Folsom Target entity description: Oscar Folsom was an American lawyer from Buffalo, New York, best known as the father of Frances Folsom Cleveland, the youngest First Lady in U.S. history.
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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.
Eugene Franklin Skinner
Eugene Franklin Skinner was a 19th-century American pioneer and early settler who founded the community that became the city of Eugene, Oregon.
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C.
Louie L. Wainwright
Louie L. Wainwright was the Director of the Florida Division of Corrections who became historically notable as the named state official in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to counsel for indigent defendants.
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D.
Raymond Griffith
Raymond Griffith was a prominent American silent film comedian and producer known for his sophisticated, understated style and influential work in early Hollywood cinema.
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E.
Frederic McLaughlin
Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| child | Frances Folsom Cleveland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Hamilton College ⓘ |
| employer | law firm in Buffalo, New York ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| father | Oscar Folsom self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Grover Cleveland ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the father of Frances Folsom Cleveland ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | legal practice in Buffalo, New York ⓘ |
| occupation | lawyer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Fonda, New York ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Buffalo
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surface form:
Buffalo, New York
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| positionHeld | attorney in Buffalo, New York ⓘ |
| residence |
Buffalo
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surface form:
Buffalo, New York
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| spouse | Emma Harmon Folsom ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Buffalo
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surface form:
Buffalo, New York
|
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: Oscar Folsom Description of subject: Oscar Folsom was an American lawyer from Buffalo, New York, best known as the father of Frances Folsom Cleveland, the youngest First Lady in U.S. history.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Frances Folsom Cleveland