Tom Yates
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Tom Yates is a writer and political commentator in the TV series "House of Cards," who becomes deeply entangled in Frank Underwood’s personal and political life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Yates canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5018363 — 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)
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Target entity: Tom Yates Context triple: [Frank Underwood, hasRival, Tom Yates]
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A.
Carson Wentz
Carson Wentz is an American football quarterback best known for his Pro Bowl-caliber play with the Philadelphia Eagles, where he helped lead the team to a Super Bowl LII–winning season before injuries derailed his early career trajectory.
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B.
Nick Foles
Nick Foles is an American NFL quarterback best known for leading the Philadelphia Eagles to their first Super Bowl title and earning Super Bowl LII MVP honors.
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C.
Jared Goff
Jared Goff is an American football quarterback in the NFL, best known for leading the Los Angeles Rams to a Super Bowl appearance early in his career.
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D.
Mason Rudolph
Mason Rudolph is an American football quarterback best known for his standout collegiate career at Oklahoma State University and his subsequent play in the NFL.
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E.
Justin Herbert
Justin Herbert is an American football quarterback in the NFL, best known for his standout college career at the University of Oregon and his role as a franchise quarterback for the Los Angeles Chargers.
- 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: Tom Yates Target entity description: Tom Yates is a writer and political commentator in the TV series "House of Cards," who becomes deeply entangled in Frank Underwood’s personal and political life.
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A.
Carson Wentz
Carson Wentz is an American football quarterback best known for his Pro Bowl-caliber play with the Philadelphia Eagles, where he helped lead the team to a Super Bowl LII–winning season before injuries derailed his early career trajectory.
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B.
Nick Foles
Nick Foles is an American NFL quarterback best known for leading the Philadelphia Eagles to their first Super Bowl title and earning Super Bowl LII MVP honors.
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C.
Jared Goff
Jared Goff is an American football quarterback in the NFL, best known for leading the Los Angeles Rams to a Super Bowl appearance early in his career.
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D.
Mason Rudolph
Mason Rudolph is an American football quarterback best known for his standout collegiate career at Oklahoma State University and his subsequent play in the NFL.
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E.
Justin Herbert
Justin Herbert is an American football quarterback in the NFL, best known for his standout college career at the University of Oregon and his role as a franchise quarterback for the Los Angeles Chargers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | House of Cards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Claire Underwood
NERFINISHED
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Frank Underwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cynical
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introspective ⓘ observant ⓘ |
| creator | Beau Willimon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | the White House (Underwood administration) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| entangledWith |
Frank Underwood’s personal life
ⓘ
Frank Underwood’s political life ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | House of Cards universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | House of Cards Season 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | political drama ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | outsider observer of the Underwoods ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| network | Netflix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | book project about Frank Underwood and America Works ⓘ |
| occupation |
political commentator
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writer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Paul Sparks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationship | lover of Claire Underwood ⓘ |
| role | biographer of Frank Underwood ⓘ |
| romanticRelationshipWith | Claire Underwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesOrigin | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| task | write a book to promote America Works ⓘ |
| worksFor | Frank Underwood 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: Tom Yates Description of subject: Tom Yates is a writer and political commentator in the TV series "House of Cards," who becomes deeply entangled in Frank Underwood’s personal and political life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.