Washington, D.C. Metro station (fictionalized)
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The fictionalized Washington, D.C. Metro station is a key setting in the TV series "House of Cards," most notably as the location of journalist Zoe Barnes's death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Washington, D.C. Metro station (fictionalized) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12769081 — 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: Washington, D.C. Metro station (fictionalized) Context triple: [Zoe Barnes, placeOfDeath, Washington, D.C. Metro station (fictionalized)]
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A.
Crystal City station (Washington Metro)
Crystal City station (Washington Metro) is an underground rapid transit station in Arlington, Virginia, serving the Blue and Yellow Lines and providing access to the Crystal City business district near Reagan National Airport.
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B.
Crystal City station
Crystal City station is an underground Washington Metro stop in Arlington, Virginia, serving the Crystal City business district and nearby Reagan National Airport.
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C.
Union Station (Washington Metro)
Union Station is a major Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., serving as a key transit hub connected to the historic Union Station rail terminal and multiple local and regional transportation services.
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D.
Capitol Heights station
Capitol Heights station is an elevated Washington Metro station in Prince George's County, Maryland, serving the Blue and Silver Lines near the D.C.–Maryland border.
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E.
Tysons Corner station
Tysons Corner station is a Washington Metro rapid transit stop in Tysons, Virginia, serving the major Tysons Corner commercial and shopping district.
- 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: Washington, D.C. Metro station (fictionalized) Target entity description: The fictionalized Washington, D.C. Metro station is a key setting in the TV series "House of Cards," most notably as the location of journalist Zoe Barnes's death.
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A.
Crystal City station (Washington Metro)
Crystal City station (Washington Metro) is an underground rapid transit station in Arlington, Virginia, serving the Blue and Yellow Lines and providing access to the Crystal City business district near Reagan National Airport.
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B.
Crystal City station
Crystal City station is an underground Washington Metro stop in Arlington, Virginia, serving the Crystal City business district and nearby Reagan National Airport.
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C.
Union Station (Washington Metro)
Union Station is a major Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., serving as a key transit hub connected to the historic Union Station rail terminal and multiple local and regional transportation services.
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D.
Capitol Heights station
Capitol Heights station is an elevated Washington Metro station in Prince George's County, Maryland, serving the Blue and Silver Lines near the D.C.–Maryland border.
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E.
Tysons Corner station
Tysons Corner station is a Washington Metro rapid transit stop in Tysons, Virginia, serving the major Tysons Corner commercial and shopping district.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
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television setting ⓘ |
| appearsIn | House of Cards ⓘ |
| associatedCharacter |
Frank Underwood
ⓘ
Zoe Barnes ⓘ |
| basedOn | Washington Metro ⓘ |
| cityOfFictionalSetting | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| diegeticLocationType |
subway station
ⓘ
underground station ⓘ |
| fictionalizationOf |
Washington, D.C. Metro system
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington Metro
|
| firstAppearanceContext | early seasons of House of Cards ⓘ |
| genreContext | political drama ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | site of pivotal character death ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | key setting ⓘ |
| notableEvent | death of Zoe Barnes ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
House of Cards universe
ⓘ
linked to:
House of Cards
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| relatedRealWorldSystem | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ⓘ |
| settingForSceneType |
climactic confrontation
ⓘ
death scene ⓘ |
| toneAssociation |
dark
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suspenseful ⓘ |
| transportModeDepicted | rapid transit ⓘ |
| usedForPlotDevice | murder staged as accident ⓘ |
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: Washington, D.C. Metro station (fictionalized) Description of subject: The fictionalized Washington, D.C. Metro station is a key setting in the TV series "House of Cards," most notably as the location of journalist Zoe Barnes's death.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Zoe Barnes in House of Cards