Franklin Foer
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Franklin Foer is an American journalist and author best known for serving as editor of the political and cultural magazine The New Republic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Franklin Foer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4662489 — 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 Foer Context triple: [The New Republic, notableEditor, Franklin Foer]
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A.
Graeme Wood
Graeme Wood is an Australian entrepreneur best known as the founder of the online travel booking company Wotif.com.
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B.
Jeffrey Auerbach
Jeffrey Auerbach is a film producer best known for his work on the stop-motion animated feature "Corpse Bride."
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C.
Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg is an American journalist and author known for his long-form reporting on foreign policy and national security, and for serving as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
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D.
Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens is an American conservative journalist and columnist known for his incisive political commentary and foreign policy analysis.
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E.
David Sirota
David Sirota is an American journalist, author, and political commentator who co-wrote the screenplay for the satirical disaster film "Don't Look Up."
- 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 Foer Target entity description: Franklin Foer is an American journalist and author best known for serving as editor of the political and cultural magazine The New Republic.
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A.
Graeme Wood
Graeme Wood is an Australian entrepreneur best known as the founder of the online travel booking company Wotif.com.
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B.
Jeffrey Auerbach
Jeffrey Auerbach is a film producer best known for his work on the stop-motion animated feature "Corpse Bride."
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C.
Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg is an American journalist and author known for his long-form reporting on foreign policy and national security, and for serving as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
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D.
Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens is an American conservative journalist and columnist known for his incisive political commentary and foreign policy analysis.
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E.
David Sirota
David Sirota is an American journalist, author, and political commentator who co-wrote the screenplay for the satirical disaster film "Don't Look Up."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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editor ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Columbia University ⓘ |
| employer |
The Atlantic
NERFINISHED
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The New Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
culture
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politics ⓘ technology and society ⓘ |
| genre |
cultural criticism
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non-fiction ⓘ political writing ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
U.S. presidents
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globalization ⓘ soccer ⓘ the tech industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
reporting on American politics
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serving as editor of The New Republic ⓘ writing about the impact of Big Tech on democracy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
How Soccer Explains the World
NERFINISHED
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The Last Politician NERFINISHED ⓘ World Without Mind NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ magazine editor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
editor of The New Republic
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national correspondent at The Atlantic ⓘ |
| relative | Esther Safran Foer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Jonathan Safran Foer
NERFINISHED
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Joshua Foer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Foer Description of subject: Franklin Foer is an American journalist and author best known for serving as editor of the political and cultural magazine The New Republic.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.