The Washington Herald
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The Washington Herald is a fictional Washington, D.C. newspaper featured in the political drama series "House of Cards."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Washington Herald canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12769061 — 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: The Washington Herald Context triple: [Zoe Barnes, worksFor, The Washington Herald]
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A.
The Washington Times-Herald
The Washington Times-Herald was a Washington, D.C. daily newspaper known for its conservative editorial stance and coverage of national politics before its eventual merger into The Washington Post.
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B.
Washington Star
The Washington Star was a prominent Washington, D.C. daily newspaper known for its political coverage and influential commentary before ceasing publication in the early 1980s.
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C.
The Washington Times
The Washington Times is a conservative-leaning daily newspaper based in Washington, D.C., known for its political coverage and commentary.
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D.
The Boston Evening Transcript
"The Boston Evening Transcript" is a poem by T. S. Eliot that satirically portrays the staid, provincial culture of Boston’s upper-middle-class society.
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E.
Philadelphia Press
The Philadelphia Press was a prominent 19th-century American newspaper based in Philadelphia, known for publishing notable literary works and political reporting.
- 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: The Washington Herald Target entity description: The Washington Herald is a fictional Washington, D.C. newspaper featured in the political drama series "House of Cards."
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A.
The Washington Times-Herald
The Washington Times-Herald was a Washington, D.C. daily newspaper known for its conservative editorial stance and coverage of national politics before its eventual merger into The Washington Post.
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B.
Washington Star
The Washington Star was a prominent Washington, D.C. daily newspaper known for its political coverage and influential commentary before ceasing publication in the early 1980s.
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C.
The Washington Times
The Washington Times is a conservative-leaning daily newspaper based in Washington, D.C., known for its political coverage and commentary.
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D.
The Boston Evening Transcript
"The Boston Evening Transcript" is a poem by T. S. Eliot that satirically portrays the staid, provincial culture of Boston’s upper-middle-class society.
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E.
Philadelphia Press
The Philadelphia Press was a prominent 19th-century American newspaper based in Philadelphia, known for publishing notable literary works and political reporting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional newspaper
ⓘ
fictional organization ⓘ |
| appearsIn | House of Cards ⓘ |
| associatedFictionalTopic |
U.S. national politics
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investigative reporting ⓘ media ethics ⓘ political corruption ⓘ |
| basedOn | real-world Washington, D.C. newspapers (inspired setting) ⓘ |
| cityOfFictionalHeadquarters | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fictionalEditor | Tom Hammerschmidt ⓘ |
| fictionalIndustry |
online news media
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print journalism ⓘ |
| fictionalOwner | Media conglomerate (House of Cards universe) ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
House of Cards season 1
ⓘ
linked to:
House of Cards
|
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | political drama ⓘ |
| hasFictionalRival | Slugline ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | depicts political journalism in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
employer of Zoe Barnes at the beginning of House of Cards
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platform for investigations into Frank Underwood ⓘ |
| notableFictionalEmployee |
Janine Skorsky
ⓘ
Lucas Goodwin ⓘ Tom Hammerschmidt ⓘ Zoe Barnes ⓘ |
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: The Washington Herald Description of subject: The Washington Herald is a fictional Washington, D.C. newspaper featured in the political drama series "House of Cards."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.