Tom Vilsack
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Tom Vilsack is an American politician and attorney who has served multiple terms as the United States Secretary of Agriculture and is a former governor of Iowa.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Terry E. Branstad | 2 |
| Tom Vilsack canonical | 2 |
| Christie Vilsack | 1 |
| Vilsack | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1484228 — 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: Tom Vilsack Context triple: [SecAg, positionHeldBy, Tom Vilsack]
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A.
Mark Schweiker
Mark Schweiker is an American politician who served as the 44th governor of Pennsylvania in the early 2000s.
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B.
Jeff Walz
Jeff Walz is a prominent American college basketball coach best known for building the University of Louisville women’s program into a perennial national contender.
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C.
Scott Walker
Scott Walker is an American Republican politician who served as the 45th governor of Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019 and gained national prominence for his contentious public-sector union reforms.
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D.
Peter B. Chiafalo
Peter B. Chiafalo is an American presidential elector known for challenging state laws that bind Electoral College members to support their party’s nominee, leading to the U.S. Supreme Court case Chiafalo v. Washington.
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E.
Rod Blagojevich
Rod Blagojevich is a former Democratic governor of Illinois who gained national notoriety after being impeached and convicted on federal corruption charges related to the attempted sale of Barack Obama’s vacated U.S. Senate seat.
- 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: Tom Vilsack Target entity description: Tom Vilsack is an American politician and attorney who has served multiple terms as the United States Secretary of Agriculture and is a former governor of Iowa.
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A.
Mark Schweiker
Mark Schweiker is an American politician who served as the 44th governor of Pennsylvania in the early 2000s.
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B.
Jeff Walz
Jeff Walz is a prominent American college basketball coach best known for building the University of Louisville women’s program into a perennial national contender.
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C.
Scott Walker
Scott Walker is an American Republican politician who served as the 45th governor of Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019 and gained national prominence for his contentious public-sector union reforms.
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D.
Peter B. Chiafalo
Peter B. Chiafalo is an American presidential elector known for challenging state laws that bind Electoral College members to support their party’s nominee, leading to the U.S. Supreme Court case Chiafalo v. Washington.
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E.
Rod Blagojevich
Rod Blagojevich is a former Democratic governor of Illinois who gained national notoriety after being impeached and convicted on federal corruption charges related to the attempted sale of Barack Obama’s vacated U.S. Senate seat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government minister
ⓘ
human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ state governor ⓘ |
| appointedBy |
Barack Obama
ⓘ
Joe Biden ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Albany Law School
ⓘ
Hamilton College ⓘ |
| familyName |
Vilsack
ⓘ
linked to:
Tom Vilsack
|
| fieldOfWork |
agricultural policy
ⓘ
law ⓘ public administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| hasRole |
cabinet member of the United States
ⓘ
mayor in the United States ⓘ state governor in the United States ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of Iowa
ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa
United States Department of Agriculture ⓘ |
| legalEducation | Albany Law School ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Democratic Party (United States)
ⓘ
linked to:
Democratic Party
|
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party (United States)
ⓘ
linked to:
Democratic Party
|
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
serving as Governor of Iowa
ⓘ
serving multiple terms as United States Secretary of Agriculture ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of the United States Department of Agriculture ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 2017-01-13 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime |
2009-01-21
ⓘ
2021-02-24 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cabinet of Barack Obama
ⓘ
linked to:
Cabinet of the United States
Cabinet of Joe Biden ⓘ
linked to:
Cabinet of the United States
|
| positionHeld |
Governor of Iowa
ⓘ
Mayor of Mount Pleasant, Iowa ⓘ United States Secretary of Agriculture ⓘ |
| residence | Iowa ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Christie Vilsack
ⓘ
linked to:
Tom Vilsack
|
| workLocation |
Iowa
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Tom Vilsack Description of subject: Tom Vilsack is an American politician and attorney who has served multiple terms as the United States Secretary of Agriculture and is a former governor of Iowa.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tom Vilsack
linked to: Tom Vilsack
linked to: Tom Vilsack
linked to: Tom Vilsack