Don Franklin
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Don Franklin is an American actor best known for his roles in science fiction and adventure television series, including a prominent part on SeaQuest DSV.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don Franklin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5188466 — 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: Don Franklin Context triple: [SeaQuest DSV, castMember, Don Franklin]
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A.
Scott Franklin
Scott Franklin is an American film producer known for his frequent collaborations with director Darren Aronofsky on acclaimed movies such as Black Swan and The Wrestler.
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B.
Carl Franklin
Carl Franklin is an American actor and acclaimed film and television director known for works such as "One False Move" and "Devil in a Blue Dress."
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C.
Fred Waller
Fred Waller was an American inventor and film pioneer best known for creating the immersive widescreen Cinerama process that revolutionized cinematic presentation in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Dan Moore
Dan Moore is a fictional character appearing in the work "Cane."
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E.
Trummy Young
Trummy Young was an American jazz trombonist and singer best known for his work with Louis Armstrong and other leading swing-era bands.
- 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: Don Franklin Target entity description: Don Franklin is an American actor best known for his roles in science fiction and adventure television series, including a prominent part on SeaQuest DSV.
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A.
Scott Franklin
Scott Franklin is an American film producer known for his frequent collaborations with director Darren Aronofsky on acclaimed movies such as Black Swan and The Wrestler.
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B.
Carl Franklin
Carl Franklin is an American actor and acclaimed film and television director known for works such as "One False Move" and "Devil in a Blue Dress."
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C.
Fred Waller
Fred Waller was an American inventor and film pioneer best known for creating the immersive widescreen Cinerama process that revolutionized cinematic presentation in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Dan Moore
Dan Moore is a fictional character appearing in the work "Cane."
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E.
Trummy Young
Trummy Young was an American jazz trombonist and singer best known for his work with Louis Armstrong and other leading swing-era bands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| characterIn | seaQuest DSV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960-12-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Interlochen Center for the Arts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Whitney M. Young Magnet High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure television
ⓘ
science fiction television ⓘ |
| givenName | Don NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | one son ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0291500 ⓘ |
| height | approximately 1.83 m ⓘ |
| knownFor |
roles in adventure television series
ⓘ
roles in science fiction television series ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| name | Don Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Seven Days
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Young Riders NERFINISHED ⓘ seaQuest 2032 NERFINISHED ⓘ seaQuest DSV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| playedCharacter | Commander Jonathan Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| spouse |
Kristine Franklin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sheila Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Don Franklin Description of subject: Don Franklin is an American actor best known for his roles in science fiction and adventure television series, including a prominent part on SeaQuest DSV.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.