Howard Silk
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Howard Silk is the central protagonist of the science fiction thriller TV series "Counterpart," portrayed as a low-level bureaucrat who discovers a parallel world and his more ruthless doppelgänger.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard Silk canonical | 5 |
| Howard Silk (Alpha) | 4 |
| Howard Silk (Other) | 1 |
| Howard Silk (Prime) | 1 |
| Howard Silk Prime | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9762903 — 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: Howard Silk Context triple: [Counterpart, mainCharacter, Howard Silk]
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A.
Howard Bannister
Howard Bannister is the mild-mannered, musicologist protagonist played by Ryan O'Neal in the screwball comedy film "What's Up, Doc?".
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B.
Louis Silvers
Louis Silvers was an American composer and musical director best known for scoring early sound films in Hollywood during the late 1920s and 1930s.
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C.
Frank Greystock
Frank Greystock is a central figure in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novel "The Eustace Diamonds," portrayed as an ambitious yet morally conflicted politician entangled in complex romantic and social obligations.
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D.
Alex Reiger
Alex Reiger is the level-headed, philosophical cab driver who serves as the central character in the classic television sitcom "Taxi."
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E.
Stephen Sinclair
Stephen Sinclair is a New Zealand screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay for Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
- 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: Howard Silk Target entity description: Howard Silk is the central protagonist of the science fiction thriller TV series "Counterpart," portrayed as a low-level bureaucrat who discovers a parallel world and his more ruthless doppelgänger.
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A.
Howard Bannister
Howard Bannister is the mild-mannered, musicologist protagonist played by Ryan O'Neal in the screwball comedy film "What's Up, Doc?".
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B.
Louis Silvers
Louis Silvers was an American composer and musical director best known for scoring early sound films in Hollywood during the late 1920s and 1930s.
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C.
Frank Greystock
Frank Greystock is a central figure in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novel "The Eustace Diamonds," portrayed as an ambitious yet morally conflicted politician entangled in complex romantic and social obligations.
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D.
Alex Reiger
Alex Reiger is the level-headed, philosophical cab driver who serves as the central character in the classic television sitcom "Taxi."
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E.
Stephen Sinclair
Stephen Sinclair is a New Zealand screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay for Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Interface division ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Counterpart
ⓘ
linked to:
Counterpart (TV series)
|
| counterpartPersonalityTrait |
decisive
ⓘ
ruthless ⓘ |
| counterpartRole | intelligence operative ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | Berlin ⓘ |
| createdBy | Justin Marks ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Counterpart, Season 1 Episode 1
ⓘ
linked to:
Prime in Counterpart
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction thriller character ⓘ |
| hasDoppelganger |
Howard Silk (Prime)
ⓘ
linked to:
Howard Silk
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
espionage
ⓘ
identity ⓘ parallel universes ⓘ |
| network |
Starz
ⓘ
linked to:
Starz Entertainment
|
| occupation | low-level bureaucrat ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
idealistic
ⓘ
introverted ⓘ mild-mannered ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
J. K. Simmons
ⓘ
linked to:
J.K. Simmons
|
| setting | parallel worlds ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| universe | Counterpart universe ⓘ |
| worksFor | Office of Interchange ⓘ |
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: Howard Silk Description of subject: Howard Silk is the central protagonist of the science fiction thriller TV series "Counterpart," portrayed as a low-level bureaucrat who discovers a parallel world and his more ruthless doppelgänger.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Counterpart (TV series)
subject linked to:
Emily Silk in Counterpart
subject linked to:
Emily Silk in Counterpart
linked to: Howard Silk
subject linked to:
Howard Silk in Counterpart
linked to: Howard Silk
subject linked to:
Howard Silk in Counterpart
subject linked to:
Prime in Counterpart
subject linked to:
Prime in Counterpart
linked to: Howard Silk
subject linked to:
Prime in Counterpart
linked to: Howard Silk
subject linked to:
Prime in Counterpart
linked to: Howard Silk
subject linked to:
Prime in Counterpart
linked to: Howard Silk
subject linked to:
Prime in Counterpart
linked to: Howard Silk