Willimon
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Willimon is the surname of American playwright and screenwriter Beau Willimon, best known as the creator of the U.S. version of the political drama series "House of Cards."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Willimon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5018289 — 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: Willimon Context triple: [Beau Willimon, familyName, Willimon]
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A.
Wilson Bethel
Wilson Bethel is an American actor best known for his role as Wade Kinsella on the television series "Hart of Dixie" and for appearances in shows like "Daredevil" and "All Rise."
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B.
Wesley
Wesley is a masculine given name of English origin, traditionally used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Stephen Christian
Stephen Christian is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the alternative rock band Anberlin.
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D.
Michael Devine
Michael Devine was an Irish republican hunger striker and INLA member who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike in Northern Ireland.
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E.
Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams was an American poet, publisher, and founder of the Jargon Society, closely associated with the experimental Black Mountain poetry movement.
- 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: Willimon Target entity description: Willimon is the surname of American playwright and screenwriter Beau Willimon, best known as the creator of the U.S. version of the political drama series "House of Cards."
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A.
Wilson Bethel
Wilson Bethel is an American actor best known for his role as Wade Kinsella on the television series "Hart of Dixie" and for appearances in shows like "Daredevil" and "All Rise."
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B.
Wesley
Wesley is a masculine given name of English origin, traditionally used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Stephen Christian
Stephen Christian is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the alternative rock band Anberlin.
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D.
Michael Devine
Michael Devine was an Irish republican hunger striker and INLA member who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike in Northern Ireland.
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E.
Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams was an American poet, publisher, and founder of the Jargon Society, closely associated with the experimental Black Mountain poetry movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American playwright
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American screenwriter ⓘ family name ⓘ political drama television series ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category | English-language surnames ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfPrevalence | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorOf | House of Cards (U.S. TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Willimon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Beau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Beau Willimon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | creating the U.S. version of House of Cards ⓘ |
| notableWork | House of Cards (U.S. TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
playwright
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screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| usedBy | Beau Willimon 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: Willimon Description of subject: Willimon is the surname of American playwright and screenwriter Beau Willimon, best known as the creator of the U.S. version of the political drama series "House of Cards."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.