Louis Tobin
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Louis Tobin is a wealthy financier and central antagonist in the legal thriller TV series "Damages," whose massive Ponzi scheme drives a major season-long case.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Louis Tobin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12361470 — 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: Louis Tobin Context triple: [Patty Hewes, hasAdversary, Louis Tobin]
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A.
Maurice J. Tobin
Maurice J. Tobin was a mid-20th-century American politician who served as mayor of Boston, governor of Massachusetts, and U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Harry S. Truman.
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B.
Frank J. Caufield
Frank J. Caufield was an American venture capitalist best known as a co-founder and longtime partner of the influential Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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C.
Edward P. Doherty
Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
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D.
John Loughlin
John Loughlin was the first Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn, serving from its establishment in the mid-19th century and overseeing its early growth.
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E.
Raymond Caplan
Raymond Caplan is the birth name of American actor and director Ray Danton, known for his roles in film noir and crime dramas of the mid-20th century.
- 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: Louis Tobin Target entity description: Louis Tobin is a wealthy financier and central antagonist in the legal thriller TV series "Damages," whose massive Ponzi scheme drives a major season-long case.
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A.
Maurice J. Tobin
Maurice J. Tobin was a mid-20th-century American politician who served as mayor of Boston, governor of Massachusetts, and U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Harry S. Truman.
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B.
Frank J. Caufield
Frank J. Caufield was an American venture capitalist best known as a co-founder and longtime partner of the influential Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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C.
Edward P. Doherty
Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
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D.
John Loughlin
John Loughlin was the first Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn, serving from its establishment in the mid-19th century and overseeing its early growth.
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E.
Raymond Caplan
Raymond Caplan is the birth name of American actor and director Ray Danton, known for his roles in film noir and crime dramas of the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Damages ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
corporate corruption
ⓘ
financial fraud ⓘ white-collar crime ⓘ |
| characterRole |
antagonist
ⓘ
central antagonist ⓘ |
| conflictsWith | protagonist attorneys in Damages ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | the TV series Damages ⓘ |
| drivesPlotOf | a major season-long case in Damages ⓘ |
| drivesSeasonArcOf | a later season of Damages ⓘ |
| hasMotive |
greed
ⓘ
maintaining wealth and status ⓘ |
| hasWealthStatus | wealthy ⓘ |
| legalContext |
civil litigation
ⓘ
criminal investigation ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeEra | contemporary setting ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | focus of legal investigation ⓘ |
| notableFor | running a massive Ponzi scheme ⓘ |
| occupation | financier ⓘ |
| portrayedInGenre | legal thriller ⓘ |
| primaryActivity | orchestrating large-scale investment fraud ⓘ |
| schemeType | Ponzi scheme ⓘ |
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: Louis Tobin Description of subject: Louis Tobin is a wealthy financier and central antagonist in the legal thriller TV series "Damages," whose massive Ponzi scheme drives a major season-long case.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Patty Hewes in Damages