Frank James
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Frank James was a 19th-century American outlaw and older brother of Jesse James, known for his role in the James–Younger Gang’s bank and train robberies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frank James canonical | 5 |
| Frank James (character) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1956188 — 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: Frank James Context triple: [Jesse James (1939 film), featuresCharacter, Frank James]
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A.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a classic 1939 Western film dramatizing the life of the infamous American outlaw, starring Tyrone Power in the title role.
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B.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a traditional American folk ballad about the infamous 19th-century outlaw, often performed and recorded in various folk and roots music contexts.
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C.
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid is a 1938 ballet by American composer Aaron Copland that evokes the mythic atmosphere of the American Wild West through folk-inspired orchestral music.
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D.
Paul Quantrill
Paul Quantrill is a former Canadian Major League Baseball relief pitcher known for his durability and effectiveness out of the bullpen during the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
John Dillinger
John Dillinger was a notorious American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw who became a legendary figure in early 1930s crime history.
- 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: Frank James Target entity description: Frank James was a 19th-century American outlaw and older brother of Jesse James, known for his role in the James–Younger Gang’s bank and train robberies.
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A.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a classic 1939 Western film dramatizing the life of the infamous American outlaw, starring Tyrone Power in the title role.
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B.
Jesse James
Jesse James is a traditional American folk ballad about the infamous 19th-century outlaw, often performed and recorded in various folk and roots music contexts.
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C.
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid is a 1938 ballet by American composer Aaron Copland that evokes the mythic atmosphere of the American Wild West through folk-inspired orchestral music.
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D.
Paul Quantrill
Paul Quantrill is a former Canadian Major League Baseball relief pitcher known for his durability and effectiveness out of the bullpen during the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
John Dillinger
John Dillinger was a notorious American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw who became a legendary figure in early 1930s crime history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Frank James Description of subject: Frank James was a 19th-century American outlaw and older brother of Jesse James, known for his role in the James–Younger Gang’s bank and train robberies.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jesse James (1939 film)
this entity surface form:
Frank James (character)
this entity surface form:
Frank James (character)