James Rhodes
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James Rhodes is a high-ranking military officer and close ally of Tony Stark who fights in advanced powered armor under the codename War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Rhodes canonical | 30 |
| James Rupert Rhodes | 2 |
| Agent Jim Rhodes | 1 |
| James Rhodes (MCU) | 1 |
| James Rhodes (Marvel Cinematic Universe) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1887470 — 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: James Rhodes Context triple: [Avengers: Age of Ultron, featuresCharacter, James Rhodes]
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A.
John Grey
John Grey is a central character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Can You Forgive Her?", portrayed as a principled, reserved country gentleman whose steadfast love and moral integrity contrast with the heroine’s indecision.
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B.
Nick Fury
Nick Fury is the one-eyed, trench-coat-wearing spymaster and director of S.H.I.E.L.D. who orchestrates and oversees the Avengers in the Marvel universe.
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C.
Logan Killicks
Logan Killicks is Janie Crawford’s first husband in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," an older, pragmatic farmer whose loveless, controlling marriage prompts her search for independence and true love.
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D.
John Ryan
John Ryan is an American songwriter and producer known for co-writing numerous pop hits for artists such as One Direction, Maroon 5, and Jason Derulo.
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E.
Jonathan Adams
Jonathan Adams is a Welsh architect best known for designing the iconic Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.
- 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: James Rhodes Target entity description: James Rhodes is a high-ranking military officer and close ally of Tony Stark who fights in advanced powered armor under the codename War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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A.
John Grey
John Grey is a central character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Can You Forgive Her?", portrayed as a principled, reserved country gentleman whose steadfast love and moral integrity contrast with the heroine’s indecision.
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B.
Nick Fury
Nick Fury is the one-eyed, trench-coat-wearing spymaster and director of S.H.I.E.L.D. who orchestrates and oversees the Avengers in the Marvel universe.
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C.
Logan Killicks
Logan Killicks is Janie Crawford’s first husband in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," an older, pragmatic farmer whose loveless, controlling marriage prompts her search for independence and true love.
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D.
John Ryan
John Ryan is an American songwriter and producer known for co-writing numerous pop hits for artists such as One Direction, Maroon 5, and Jason Derulo.
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E.
Jonathan Adams
Jonathan Adams is a Welsh architect best known for designing the iconic Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Marvel Cinematic Universe character
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fictional character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
The Avengers
ⓘ
linked to:
Avengers
Tony Stark ⓘ U.S. military ⓘ
linked to:
United States Armed Forces
United States Air Force ⓘ |
| alias |
Iron Patriot
ⓘ
Rhodey ⓘ
linked to:
James "Rhodey" Rhodes
War Machine ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Avengers: Age of Ultron
ⓘ
Avengers: Endgame ⓘ Avengers: Infinity War ⓘ Captain America: Civil War ⓘ Captain Marvel (film) ⓘ
linked to:
Captain Marvel
Iron Man (2008 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Iron Man
Iron Man 2 ⓘ Iron Man 3 ⓘ The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ⓘ |
| basedOn |
James Rhodes (Marvel Comics)
ⓘ
linked to:
James "Rhodey" Rhodes
|
| characterTrait |
duty-driven
ⓘ
loyal ⓘ |
| closeFriendOf |
Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
ⓘ
linked to:
Tony Stark
|
| createdFor |
Marvel Studios film series
ⓘ
linked to:
Marvel Studios
|
| firstAppearance |
Iron Man (2008 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Iron Man
|
| fullName |
James Rupert Rhodes
ⓘ
linked to:
James Rhodes
|
| genre | superhero fiction ⓘ |
| governmentRole | liaison between the U.S. military and Tony Stark ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
ⓘ
linked to:
Tony Stark
United States government ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
rebrands War Machine armor as Iron Patriot in Iron Man 3
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suffers spinal injury after fall during airport battle in Captain America: Civil War ⓘ takes control of the Mark II Iron Man armor in Iron Man 2 ⓘ |
| occupation | United States Air Force officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Don Cheadle
ⓘ
Terrence Howard ⓘ |
| rank |
Colonel
ⓘ
Lieutenant Colonel ⓘ |
| roleInEndgame | member of the time heist team retrieving the Power Stone on Morag ⓘ |
| roleInInfinityWar | fights alongside the Avengers against Thanos’s forces in Wakanda ⓘ |
| side | supports the Sokovia Accords ⓘ |
| universe | Marvel Cinematic Universe ⓘ |
| usesArmor |
Iron Patriot armor
ⓘ
War Machine armor ⓘ
linked to:
War Machine
|
| usesTechnology | leg braces to walk after spinal injury ⓘ |
| weaponSystem |
missile launchers
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repulsor-based weaponry ⓘ shoulder-mounted machine guns ⓘ |
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: James Rhodes Description of subject: James Rhodes is a high-ranking military officer and close ally of Tony Stark who fights in advanced powered armor under the codename War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: James Rhodes
subject linked to:
James Rhodes
linked to: James Rhodes
linked to: James Rhodes
Iron Patriot (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
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identityUser
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James Rhodes (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
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subject linked to:
Iron Patriot
linked to: James Rhodes
subject linked to:
Iron Patriot armor
linked to: James Rhodes